Santa Fe Reporter, July 12, 2023

MURAL TOUR

AS NEW MURALS EMERGE, SFR PRESENTS A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO THE CITY’S WALL ART P.10

OPINION 5

NEWS

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

CAN’T-SUMPTION 8

City zoning laws banning on-site cannabis use are forcing business to get creative

MANSION TAX IN FOR FIGHT 9

As City Council weighs new excise tax to fund affordable housing, Santa Fe Association of Realtors lines up against it

COVER STORY 10

MURAL TOUR

As new murals emerge, SFR presents a beginner’s guide to the city’s wall art

CULTURE

SFR PICKS 15

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Crystals grow at the Jean Cocteau, ABBAquerque knows the name of the game, Railyard goats go for the green and 16mm film turns 100

THE CALENDAR 16

3 QUESTIONS 18

With costumer/performer Shannon Otto

FOOD 25

THE RIVER MILD AITA, or should food this expensive be...a little more memorable?

OPERA 27

SHIP SHAPE

SFO’s The Flying Dutchman marks year two for successful Wagner operas

MOVIES 28

THE LESSON REVIEW

The British-tutor-comes-to-imposing-family-manor setup might sound like something from The Turn of the Screw, but this haunting is more artistic than physical

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Cover murals by (In order of appearence) Pola Lopez and Three Sisters Collective; Nani Chacon; Amapolay, Three Sisters Collective and Alas de Agua Art Collective; Jay Smiley

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FUNDING RECOVERY

More than a billion dollars from opioid lawsuit settlements are heading to New Mexico. Making sure the money is spent the way it is intended is critical.

Opioids have taken a heavy toll on our state, exacting long-term economic and social damage. As a newly elected city councilor in Española in the early 2000s, I was taken aback when our police department became the first in the country to train officers in intravenous administration of Narcan. Later, as mayor of Española, I witnessed as more lethal opioids became even more readily available in pill form. This epidemic is also personal to me, as I’ve lost friends and family members.

These settlements give local stakeholders the ability to devise strategies based on their circumstances, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach. New Mexico’s leaders must act swiftly and collaboratively in developing a strategy to utilize funds.

My office is tasked with ensuring funds are used for their intended purpose. If an audit reveals any misappropriation, that will

preclude the local government from further distributions until funds are replaced.

The scale of these settlements underscores the urgency of the crisis. As New Mexico’s chief financial watchdog, I embrace that urgency in making sure every dollar is spent to heal wounds inflicted by the greed-fueled flood of opioids into our communities.

JOSEPH MAESTAS STATE AUDITOR

MORNING WORD, JULY 7:

“STATE SUPREME COURT REJECTS PNM APPEAL OVER POWER PLANT”

PLANTING OBSTACLES?

Wow. It seems to me that PNM is trying, in all the best ways possible, to move us forward into renewable energy use and away from using coal, and they get blocked at every turn.

I really hope New Energy Economy isn’t behind this latest setback.

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“I really like her, but I don’t want to spend any time with her.”

—Overheard on the Santa Fe River Trail “I feel so American right now!”

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PIÑONS REPORTEDLY BATTLING BEETLES BETTER

New Mexico: Don’t fuck with us or our trees, bro.

FREEEEDOM!

INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART MARKET REPORTS RECORD REVENUE

And the Railyard was a downright party for days.

SANTA FEANS WANT TO KEEP STORIED CABOOSE LOGO-FREE

Congratulations, everyone— that’s the first time those words have ever appeared in a row.

CANNABIS INDUSTRY WANTS TO PUT NEW LICENSES ON HOLD

This is like when your dealer would get all mad because you called someone else while he was at the movies.

GOOD LUCK.

IT’S TOO FREAKING HOT

Who decided to build a bunch of homes without air conditioners in this town?!

MAIN BRANCH OF PUBLIC LIBRARY REOPENS FOLLOWING PLUMBING ISSUES

You might be tempted to make poop jokes, but remember the library is one of the few places to exist without spending money.

WEST ALAMEDA STILL CLOSED

And with the price of homes continuing to skyrocket, why shouldn’t our city’s infrastructure remain in disrepair?

TINE AFTER TINE

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Can’t-sumption

The idea of consumption lounges predates adult-use legalization. The Legislature in 2019 amended the state’s medical cannabis law to include areas where certified patients could consume.

Minerva Canna started serving cannabis infused drinks to patients years ago at its Cerrillos Road location before New Mexico legalized recreational-use cannabis. Erik Briones, the founder and CEO of Minerva, says the state’s Regulation and Licensing Department forced him to change course because he was never fully licensed for on-site consumption under the new law.

The City of Santa Fe confirmed in a 2020 letter that Minerva’s Cerrillos Road spot was approved for on-site patient consumption under the medical program. Nearly a year later, the state’s Regulation and Licensing Department sent a similar letter, giving Briones permission for a consumption lounge. But soon after, Briones says the department told him to stop.

Bernice Geiger, a spokeswoman for the Regulation and Licensing says Minerva’s approval was only temporary. The department’s problem with the application had to do with fees, not the city rules.

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

Over the years, Lyra Barron has established a compound-type set-up on Early Street for the businesses she founded. In one building, Fruit of the Earth Natural Health sells CBD and other non-psychoactive herbs. To the north, a medical and recreational-use cannabis shop occupies another. And around back, the Paradiso event space that’s been years in the making remains underutilized.

Barron built a new wood deck outside the space earlier this year and had hoped it would be a place where customers could enjoy a smoke. She also aimed to serve cannabis-infused drinks from a bar inside. Her plan had been to make Paradiso a music venue “that raises consciousness” and where cannabis users could light up without shame.

When Barron heard just last month about a city prohibition on cannabis lounges, however, she had to put the brakes on the whole idea.

“It was definitely a surprise for the City Different to take and squash something like that, when it’s such an opportunity to draw more people here,” she says. “It is very strange and hard to understand.”

State law allows for cannabis retailers to establish areas where customers can smoke or otherwise partake, but the City of Santa Fe prohibits what are known as “consumption areas.” The policy—which quietly came about during rapid zoning decisions in 2021—has

forced a handful of cannabis business owners like Barron to pivot.

Santa Fe Land Use and Planning Director Jason Kluck confirms that city zoning rules do not allow any sort of cannabis use, except for at private residences.

“It’s not allowed anywhere except in your living room, basically,” Kluck tells SFR.

The state’s Cannabis Regulation Act authorizes consumption areas, but also provides for cities to decide where the activities may be permitted.

Santa Fe’s first cannabis zoning rules established that retailers and producers could set up shop in certain areas. Even though the adopted ordinance defines consumption areas as “an area where cannabis products may be served and consumed by smoking, vaping, or ingesting provided that alcohol cannot be sold or consumed in a cannabis consumption area,” a table for permitted uses leaves consumption areas blank—indicating they are prohibited citywide.

“We should be able to have the freedom to make our own health decisions, including this one,” Barron says.

Across town, and across the street from Meow Wolf, Upper Crust Pizza founder Dean Alexis recently opened Canna Fe and had planned to also offer a cannabis-friendly event space. Alexis figured out pretty quickly that his original plan of having a smoking lounge was no-go, but he says that means he also avoided an insurance hassle.

“For me, looking at it just strictly as a business person, you know, your insurance is gonna go up. And I don’t know necessarily that you’re going to be selling more products,” Alexis says.

Still, if the city allowed a lounge, he would jump on it: “I want this place to be an event center as much as it is a dispensary.”

“On August 13, 2021, Minerva was issued a conditionally approved license for a consumption lounge as an amendment to their existing dispensary located at 1710 Cerrillos Rd in Santa Fe. This was when the fee structure was not finalized in rule by the Cannabis Control Division. The approval was considered conditional until all necessary fees were paid. Minerva would still have to apply for a consumption lounge license with the [Cannabis Control Division], which has not been done,” Geiger says in an email to SFR.

Briones disputes that claim, arguing that he already paid the necessary fees. He plans to keep pushing to get approval to reopen Minerva’s cannabis coffee bar and notes the city’s zoning prohibition leaves consumers vulnerable to run-ins with police.

“They’re creating people walking around smoking a joint, they’re creating people walking around eating an edible or drinking an edible drink,” Briones says. “So they’re creating a situation that they’re trying to prevent.”

Santa Fe County took the opposite approach in consumption area zoning—and one that tracks with most other local jurisdictions across the state. (Albuquerque, for example, has several lounges in operation.)

Since the summer of 2021, the county has allowed cannabis retailers to set up lounges in the same zoning areas that allow bars and nightclubs as long as they are separate, standalone buildings. County officials tell SFR that even though such lounges have the green light, no one has applied for a license to light the green yet.

Paradiso, the event space behind Fruit of the Earth Organics, will serve non-intoxicating herbal drinks instead of cannabis.

City zoning laws against on-site cannabis use spark ire among proprietors who want lounges

T hey’re creating people walking around smoking a joint, they’re creating people walking around eating an edible or drinking an edible drink . So they’re creating a situation that they’re trying to prevent.

- Erik Briones, the founder and CEO of Minerva

Mansion Tax in for Fight

Under the proposal making its way through the City Council process, municipal voters would decide whether to impose a 3% excise tax only on the portion of any home sale that exceeds $1 million dollars.

Backers say a funding source for affordable housing should be connected to one of the causes of the housing crisis: a robust mansion market.

Daniel Werwath, executive director of New Mexico Interfaith Housing and co-founder of the Santa Fe Housing Action Coalition, points to data that shows home sales over $1 million in Santa Fe County have doubled since 2019, with more than 400 being bought last year. For him, that’s just one of many reasons the tax seems like a good idea.

of displacement” that are “akin to natural disasters.”

“I think there’s a big sentiment three years into our third housing crisis in 15 years that people want to see action around this,” he says. “The trust fund was a new thing in 2009 and sort of untested, and now we have almost a 10-year track record of really sound fiscal management impact, really innovative programs and affordable housing projects coming out of the trust fund that help make the case of why this investment makes sense.”

THE STATE OF SANTA FE HOUSING

According to housing data from the second quarter of 2023 from the Santa Fe Association of Realtors, the median price of single-family homes increased from $595,000 to $604,500 in the city since last year.

BY EVAN CHANDLER evan@sfreporter.com

Fourteen years ago, Santa Fe voters rejected a tax on high-end homes that would have paid for affordable housing programs. As city councilors consider a similar idea for the November election in the face of new economic realities, the Santa Fe Association of Realtors plans to fight it again.

Donna Reynolds, government affairs director, acknowledged the association’s campaign to oppose a “transfer tax” that ultimately failed in a 2009 election and tells SFR the group has already decided not to support the new effort.

“[The Santa Fe Association of Realtors doesn’t] find it equitable, and it’s likely to have some interference with the market because you’ll have the purchaser really trying to avoid paying or mitigating to avoid paying that kind of tax,” Reynolds says. “We really think the city already has the funding to do what they want to do. There’s a lot of housing-related tax revenues that the city gets that actually funds them. ”

“We have this huge outside pressure that’s bringing a lot of outside capital into our community that pulls housing prices away from local workers,” Werwath says. “I think the reason this makes sense is it’s trying to tie a solution to one of the main drivers of the problem, which is people with outsized financial wealth really pushing the housing market farther and farther away from working people.”

District 4 Councilor Jamie Cassutt andDistrict 1 Councilor Renee Villarreal are co-sponsors of the bill, which argues that rising home and rental prices are negatively impacting Santa Feans.

“This is not necessarily a fresh proposal... but given how things have changed, given what the housing market looks like and how the pandemic impacted it, given the incredible inequity in housing accessibility in our community, we do think that this is the time to move this forward and see if the voters are ready for something like this,” Cassutt says.

Werwath says there are clear differences between now and the 2009 election when 54% of voters rejected a tax that had a lower threshold ($750,000) and a lower tax rate (1%). Today, he says, the city continues to experience “unprecedented amounts

The city’s Fiscal Impact Report for the bill proposing the election question does not provide an estimated revenue from the tax. Cassutt projects the tax would generate about $4.5 million per year, based on data about 1,552 million-dollar home sales in Santa Fe between 2018 and 2022. Werwath described this revenue estimate as “conservative.”

Currently, the governing body allocates around $3 million annually to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund from the general fund, but according to Cassutt, a dedicated stream of revenue such as the one being proposed is “more protective” for the fund.

If the city established a dedicated source of funding, she says nonprofit organizations working in housing could undertake multiyear planning, apply for tax credits and ultimately get more units on the ground.

Cassutt points to the gulf between second-home buyers and the working class struggling to find affordable homes.

“It’s pushing out families, it’s preventing grown adults such as myself who grew up here from coming back home,” she says, “and that is changing the character of our community.”

Public comment on the bill at City Council begins at 5 pm July 12, with several committee hearings planned before a potential final vote Aug. 9. The last day for the city to submit ballot language for the Nov. 7 election is Aug. 29, according to County Clerk Katharine E. Clark.

In 2021, an estimated 66% of the city’s renters earned less than 120% of the two-person area median income and only 10% of home sales financed with a mortgage were priced affordably for such households.

Sales of million-dollar homes have doubled since 2019, with over 400 such sales reported in Santa Fe County in 2022.

THIS PROPOSAL

If City Council adopts the proposed ordinance, a question would appear on the Nov. 7 ballot asking city voters whether to impose the tax.

The 3% excise tax would be applied to any portion of a home sale that exceeds $1 million.

Starting May 1, 2026, and each following May, the nontaxable threshold amount would increase correspondingly to the previous calendar year’s increase to the consumer price index for urban workers. (If index increases by 4%, the new threshold: $1.04 million.)

Tax revenue would feed the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. For Example:

A home with a price tag of $1.1 million would have a taxable amount of $100,000, 3% of which results in $3,000 in excise tax owed.

As City Council weighs new excise tax to fund affordable housing, Santa Fe Association of Realtors lines up against it

MURAL TOUR

Santa Fe’s murals span topics from gardens to history, with themes of unity, conflict and even psychedelic abstraction. They’re on residential walls down little sidestreets you’ll only discover if you know to look and on buildings you drive by every day. Their artists have sometimes signed works and sometimes left origins a mystery.

Murals have become kind of a hot-button issue in the city, too, what with the state’s Department of Cultural Affairs deciding to remove the Multicultural mural that once emblazoned a wall on the building that will officially become the Vladem Contemporary wing of the New Mexico Museum of Art this September. Many bemoaned losing that mural, which will live on both in a smaller re-creation slated for inside the museum and in a forthcoming augmented reality app that will allow users to catch a glimpse of its former glory through their phone screens.

In this week’s cover story, we present features on a brand new mural and one that’s still underway. Plus, turn the page for our beginner’s guided tour to a number of significant works in the city and a preview of a new book on the topic by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington.

Painting the Conversation

BY NOAH HALE noah@sfreporter.com

The mid-morning sun beats down as members from Three Sisters Collective join with lead artist and designer Pola Lopez to continue work on a new mural at the intersection of Hickox and Baca Streets. Titled Shards of Our Stories, the piece presents an unapologetically vibrant installation in the middle of the neighborhood’s otherwise dry southwestern sepias.

Passers-by love it: As the artists add finishing touches, cars honk and roll by, with drivers shouting their thank yous. Some have even delivered food and drinks.

Their spontaneous communication makes up the “initial energetic flight,” according to Lopez. Although the mural might spur an emotional response at first glance, there’s an intellectual component to discover, too. A closer look reveals multiple meanings and histories, part of a shared vision between the local collective and Lopez. Born and raised in Las Vegas, New Mexico, Lopez later lived in Santa Fe before moving to Los Angeles in the mid-aughts to pursue art full-time. There, she worked alongside artists such as Gilbert Luján and Willie Herrón among others—some of the foremost figures of the Chicano Art Movement that rose to prominence in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Lopez returned to Santa Fe at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to be closer to her daughter. It was around this time Three Sisters Collective

AS NEW MURALS EMERGE, SFR PRESENTS A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO THE CITY’S WALL ART

co-founder Christina Castro (Taos Pueblo) asked if she’d be interested in working on the mural project. Lopez agreed.

But it wasn’t all good news. During the initial drafting period, Lopez says, the Hermits Peak/ Calf Canyon fire rendered much of her family land near Las Vegas unusable.

“The fire caused a lot of trauma,” says Lopez, herself a former wildland firefighter and arts educator, “but I have always used my art as my spiritual path. When I was teaching art to kids in probation camps, I always taught that art is medicine, and I used my art as medicine during that time that I was going through this trauma.”

She incorporated that art-as-medicine attitude into the new mural, as well as her Mestiza roots. Shards honors the Corn Maiden, an Indigenous deity synonymous with Mother Earth. In her role as the storyteller, she passes on important cultural stories to preserve tribal heritage.

Lopez designed the mural episodically, represented as six shards of pottery. Each shard tells a piece of the story ranging from cultural shifts, resistance to colonialism and even modern environmental issues such as fracking and forest fires.

But telling the story was more complex than identifying its imagery. Lopez has synesthesia in the form of colored hearing and chose to paint the mural according to what she felt best conveyed her audiovisual message to viewers. The color scheme, for example, follows the Aztec “tlilli tltpalli” red and black ink method, with red representing blood and black the unknowns of humanity.

“I chose these colors as the background colors because I felt the subject matter was intense and needed the color of sacrifice, of offering,” Lopez says.

The concept becomes apparent in the design of a shard depicting

the braids cut off of Indigenous boarding school students—a memory that carries personal significance to Lopez, as her grandmother was sent to a boarding school for Apache youth.

The connective imagery charges Lopez’s message of multicultural reciprocity.

“I think there are three layers to the mural,” she says. “There’s the message and the imagery, but then there’s also the energy from the color and in the dynamics of imagery, of how it flows.”

The final shard in the sequence contains a river running through a lush landscape with the Lakota words Mni Wiconi written above it: “Water is Life.” It calls to mind the ongoing Land Back movement, a campaign for the reestablishment of Native American political authority over lands appropriated through colonialism.

“This needs to be shouted. It can’t be gentle,” says Lopez. “It has to scream at people, but yet it has to have balance and harmony—it can’t be offensive.”

Lopez’s design puts the conversation into a perspective anyone can share, but it doesn’t stop at the surface. Shards includes a three-headed figure based on Mexican poltician and philosopher José Vasconcelos’ theory that there would be a “fifth race’’ in the Americas called “La raza cósmica.” He believed Latin Americans transcended the ideology of race because they were a mix of Indigenous, European, African and Asian ancestry.

More than personal, Lopez’s mural is a pertinent cultural collage that everyone can visit to observe the stories colored spectacularly in front of them.

“This mural is a prayer,” says Three Sisters’ Castro. “It’s a bridge for dialogue between our communities to start seeing that we are more connected and it’s not each other we should be arguing amongst.”

Artist Pola Lopez points out a mockup for the mural she recently wrapped with The Three Sisters Collective, one of many the group has completed.

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Piecing the Movement

BY JULIE ANN GRIMM editor@sfreporter.com

The number of people who have had a hand in the developing Generations mosaic along the Rail Trail has already surpassed 100, and though artist Julie Deery has led the work for more than a year, she predicts at least that much more time will pass before the piece reaches completion.

“It’s a passion project,” she tells SFR on a recent morning, as she slathered on sunscreen and began placing shiny brown squares around a rendition of a prickly pear cactus tiled in shades of green and accented with red fruit. The plant is positioned in a way that it might have been growing out of the ground against the wall, part of a loose natural scene that’s unfolding.

Deery used spray paint to sketch out the deceptively simple design along 130 feet of cinder-block wall, an undulating mountain and sky motif accented at its center point by a blazing yellow sun. A grouted and complete section about 40 feet long includes colorful tiles alternating with opaque glass and even a few silver-colored bicycle parts—partly as a demonstration of what the final product will look like.

Many of the people passing the mural will be in motion, either moving along the trail or chugging along the track.

“You have to do something that flows with the bike riders, with the train,” Deery says, noting the intention is to allow for slow viewing where “if you’re walking you can come over and read things and look at it closely, at the individual mandalas. But if you’re just going by in the train, it’s going to be visually more exciting if it’s like…” she stops talking

and makes a wave with her arm, smiling broadly.

She launched the project in 2022 to bring together members of the Seniors on Bikes groups with Big Brothers Big Sisters. In May of that year, she held a tile workshop at Raven Tree Studios in Eldorado, working with bike club members on what she calls “wisdom stones,” (which include words from the likes of Anne Lamott, who said, “Joy is the best makeup,” and more universal truisms such as “That which does not kill us makes us strong,” “I love my bike,” and “One rain does not make a crop”). Then, she helped fifth graders from Aspen Magnet Charter School construct clay birds on a visit. Next came nearly a dozen more workshops in the Railyard and in conjunction with Vital Spaces and ArtWalk Santa Fe.

“The idea is to have the wisdom of the elders on the bottom, and anybody in the community can make a mandala that supports the flying children,” Deery says.

Last weekend, attendees at the Santa Fe Brewing Co.’s 35th birthday event made circular mandala forms that will add to the sky section. Deery also regularly holds work days at the wall such as the day SFR stopped by.

Deery’s experience in community mosaic stretches back to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, where she worked with schools. Now she has a studio in Galisteo and a local body of work that features glass, tile and recycled materials. (A recent commission at the Municipal Recreation Complex involves mosaic balls hanging from a tree.)

When she conceived of the idea to collaborate on a mural in a public place, Deery began by stuffing letters in mailboxes of houses backing up to the popular trail. David and Diana Zieset jumped at the opportunity. Two adjacent neighbors also soon agreed, and the project was off and running.

“It’s a really great thing to do for our community. And we need more of it for this kind of activity,” David Zieset tells SFR. “It’s quite

valuable and we’re really proud to be able to have such a substantial thing attached to our property.”

The couple has lived in the home for about seven years, taking advantage of the trail for quick bike trips to downtown. They also attended one of Deery’s workshops to help prepare tiles for the early stages.

“They were fun to do. You know, you’re pushing the clay around and so on,” Zieset says. “If you’re even the slightest bit artistically inclined or just curious about how the materials work, clay is one of the best ones to work with because it’s so, so easy to work with.”

Funding the project could also be lumped into Deery’s “passion” category. She hoped to land a grant or large donation at the onset, but instead it’s been fueled by small individual givers along with materials from Vital Spaces, Bullseye Glass and Resourceful Santa Fe. To get involved, visit generations.equalarea.com

LEFT: Mosaic artist Julie Deery gets help from her dog Billygoat and first-time volunteer Jennifer Martin along the Santa Fe Rail Trail. RIGHT: One of the pieces made at a pop-up event.

JULIE ANN GRIMM

Wall Magic

BY DARRYL LORENZO WELLINGTON

In the late 1990s, I visited Barcelona, Spain, where I was overwhelmed by the colorful variety of street art that outmatched any American city I had ever experienced. Since then, I began imagining my ideal city. In it, every wall is creatively and artistically painted. Centerpiece murals created by collective efforts, usually involving teenagers, individualize every building. Themes have been chosen by group input.

The murals in my ideal city will never have to be effaced. There will always be new constructions being built, including housing projects, hospitals or playgrounds. Every new wall is a fresh canvas. Most importantly, in my dreams, ubiquitous murals represent a cooperative social spirit, where each generation proposes new images and murals.

But this is a sweet fantasy.

In real time, money talks. Commerce outbids creative visions. Property owners argue that wall art

Murals Mapped Out

From decades-old panels and faded glory to new works, SFR suggests this beginner’s tour of significant murals in the city. Check out an interactive map on our website, too. (Please note: This is not a comprehensive list. Submit your contributions of other works with pictures, addresses and artist info to editor@sfreporter.com for future updates.) Read more about the first five murals on the facing page.

1 Nani Chacon: You can’t take it with you…so give it all away at The Coe Center

2 Pola Lopez and Three Sisters Collective: Shards of Our Stories on Baca Street

3 Shephard Fairey: Make Art Not War at the Midtown Campus quad

4 Amapolay, Alas de Agua Art Collective and Three Sisters Collective at Reunity Resources

5 Glenn Strock: Untitled, off West Alameda

threatens their interests. Mural imagery may—or may not—please business interests or conform to status quo social standards. Given the various commercial, legal and civic concerns influencing projects, wall space for muralists re mains limited.

While writing poems for my new collection, Legible Walls: Poems for Santa Fe Murals, I spoke with an old-school Santa Fe muralist who complained that, back in the 1970s, having art “outside” was considered taste less. But now when he walks Canyon Road, every other gallery displays a few wares outside, hoping to attract customers inside. I love how this story defines the differences between commercial gallery art and street art.

Art primarily meant to entice patrons inside (where they will make traditional purchases) is signage; mural art may be similarly showy, loud, seeking attention. But that’s all it asks.

It is a social act freely addressed to the public.

Mural art tends to blossom alongside activist movements that have an urgent message—like Brown Beretinspired murals that flourished in Santa Fe in the early ’70s, or the Black Lives Matter murals that spread across the country in 2020 and 2021. They can be repositories of cultural lore, or conduits of radicalizing community messaging. Mural-magic in either case lies in achieving a reciprocal relationship with the public. It is successful when great numbers of people not only like it, but read evolving meanings into it, like a postcard to future generations.

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home now. “I didn’t really have a blueprint,” Smiley tells SFR of the piece outside a locally-owned AirBnB. “We just wanted to make sure there was lots of color.”

11 Godfrey Reggio/Yerf Dog Scripto: See Whiteboards from Once Within a Time on Lena Street, an evolving space curated by Axle Contemporary co-owner and co-founder Matthew Chase-Daniel. Did we mention Reggio is the legendary filmmaker behind Koyaanisqatsi?

12 Sam Leyba: The work Our Lady of Justice appears on two sides of a building now surrounded by the sunken Canyon Road parking lot just south of Delgado Street. Look for the red and yellow ray design poking above street level.

6 Julie Deery: The mosaic Generations will span about 130 feet along the Santa Fe Rail Trail north of Siringo when completed.

7 Eliza Naranjo Morse: Between July 13 and 23, the Santa Clara artist will be extending her mural All Together. Making our Way. Every day. Medicine. inside the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian near Museum Hill.

8 Alas de Agua: El Agua es Vida/Water is Life, created in collaboration with several artists, wraps colorful landscapes and local icons around three of the four interior walls at the Salvador Perez Recreation Center pool.

9 An array of flowers courtesy of the muralist regulars of Three Sisters Collective decorates a wall facing the Santa Fe River Trail about a quarter-mile south of the bridge under Camino Alire.

10 Jay Smiley: Though Diné artist Smiley was living near Gallup when he completed his untitled mural on Agua Fría near the Siler Road intersection, he calls Tempe, Arizona,

13 Zara Kriegstein: Only a few of the late Kriegstein’s murals are still visible from Santa Fe streets, including a massive, albeit massively faded, fresco at Empire Builders facing Cerrillos Road south of Second Street. (She was part of the team of artists who worked together on the Multicultural mural at the Halpin Building, which was destroyed for construction of the Vladem Contemporary but is due to be part of a both a re-creation and AR display when the museum opens in September.)

14 Frederico Vigil: On the second floor of the historic building designed by John Gaw Meem at 102 Grant Ave., Vigil painted Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on the 150th anniversary of the treaty’s 1848 signing. It forms the backdrop for meetings of the Santa Fe Board of County Commissioners.

15 Zara Kriegstein: See? Told you she did a lot. A four-panel mural by Kriegstein moves through history in the hallway of Santa Fe Municipal Courthouse at 2511 Camino Entrada, including the late Judge Tom Fiorina and his famous acceptance of turkeys in lieu of fines around the holidays.

16 Dan Isaac Bortz: A psychedelic piece about regeneration and growth, Shedding the Darkness to find the Light Within, created in 2013 along the Rail Trail near Pen Road.

2 SHARDS OF OUR STORIES

Hickox and Baca Streets

Santa Fe’s newest large-scale mural found New Mexico artist Pola Lopez returning from a stint in Los Angeles and working with local group Three Sisters Collective to touch on local and Indigenous issues across six pottery shards containing emotional and political ephemera. Look closely to see Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Corn Maiden and much more.

1 YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU...SO GIVE IT ALL AWAY

1590 B Pacheco St.

“I love that the focus of this piece was about process,” Diné artist Nani Chacon told SFR of her mural at The Coe Center last February. “It’s remarkable to me that there isn’t a lot of public art in Santa Fe that is solely dedicated to Indigenous people.”

3 MAKE ART NOT WAR

Midtown Campus

It’s been 10 years since Obey artist Shepard Fairey came to the now-defunct Santa Fe University of Art and Design and completed his pro-art/anti-war mural as part of the Artists for Positive Social Change series. Sure, it’s a bit odd that a work from such a notable artist sits quietly on a mostly unused campus, but with revitalization efforts underway, it could get more attention soon.

4 AMAPOLAY, ALAS DE AGUA ART COLLECTIVE AND THREE SISTERS COLLECTIVE

2080 San Ysidro Crossing

Peruvian collective Amapolay partnered with Santa Fe’s Alas de Agua and Three Sisters to create this ode to growth and agrarian ancestry at the communitysustained Full Circle Farm plot of farmland adjacent to Reunity Resources Farm in 2021.

5 SANTA FE COUNTY HUMAN RESOURCES BUILDING

949 W Alameda St.

Late artist Glenn Strock faced no shortage of controversy over his untitled mural on West Alameda when its imagery included a conquistador on horseback extending a sword toward a kneeling Native man. Strock updated the piece with public input before his 2020 death.

Spirit, Mel Chin, 1994 white oak, mixed tall-grass prairie plants, steel, industrial patina, sheetrock, paint, 12 x 20 x 50 feet

The Art of Change

A community dinner, gathering, and conversation with artist, Mel Chin

August 10th, 2023

5:30pm - 9pm

Tickets at sfai.org

Thanks to our sponsors: VIA | Wagner Incubator Grant Fund

Partially funded by the City of Santa Fe Arts & Culture Department and the 1% Lodgers Tax.

SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE

MUSIC SAT/15

THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC

We have a confession for you, dear reader: In our elementary school music nerd days, we thought ABBA’s name was an acronym for their reliably catchy song structures rather than the first—and almost unbearably nordic—initials of members Anni-Frid, Björn, Benny and (no kidding) Agnetha. But even at that tender age, we knew well enough to scream along during “Fernando” to the line about “the fateful night we crossed the Rio Grande.” The chance to do so with go-go booted performers—New Mexican tribute band ABBAquerque—who’ve actually seen the river in question just adds a little extra norteño magic to the ‘70s nostalgia. (Siena Sofia Bergt)

ABBAquerque: 8 pm Saturday, July 15. $10

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

16(MM) CANDLES

16mm film stock turns 100 this year, which should be exciting to anybody who likes movies for two reasons: First, it’s a more time-proof medium for preserving beloved flicks than digital copies, which are constantly becoming outdated. And, as No Name Cinema’s Justin Rhody notes, “It’s special because it’s sharper than super 8 and versatile, whereas 35mm is big and expensive.” That flexibility has yielded a banquet of imagery from the eye-slitting of Un Chien Andalou to the uncanny stop motion of the Brothers Quay’s Street of Crocodiles—a cornucopia which No Name celebrates onscreen (alongside other 16mm prints) at its cinematic centennial event this Saturday. (SSB)

Celluloid Showcase: 7:30 pm Saturday, July 15 $5-$15 suggested. No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org.

GOATS TUE/18

THE G.O.A.T.S

Now that the crowds of the newly relocated International Folk Art Market have cleared out of the Railyard Park, the area’s native plants are in for some pampering (and pooping) courtesy of a hooved herd brought by The Railyard Park Conservancy, the Quivira Coalition and Horned Locust Goatscaping. And while everybody loves a properly fuzzy sheep coat, it’s important that these three groups will bring goats—satisfyingly, the bearded bleaters are able to digest goat head weeds which would poison their ovine brethren. Go cheer ‘em on, why don’t you? They’re among our most productive public servants. And good lord, they’re cute. (SSB)

Graze Days: 10 am-4 pm Tuesday, July 18. Free Railyard Park, 740 Cerrillos Road, (505) 316-3596

Crystal Vision

Local gallery owner’s film delivers a message about how to live in the world

The walls of Patrick Lysaght’s Entropy Gallery (1220 Parkway Drive, (512) 3643600) showcase nature’s aesthetic and symbiotic beauty. The engineer/artist’s images of fluid flows and crystal structures— in fire, sand and water—illustrate scientific and artistic principles, but also serve as a launchpad for what Lysaght describes as a “call to action to preserve truth.”

The project began during the pandemic, when Lysaght organized his photographs into a book, which then morphed into the 50-minute art documentary film Fleeting Structures. While the film certainly showcases the structure of fluid flow and crystal growth—visually and with explication through Lysaght’s narration—it also delves into humanity’s relationship to nature and the artist’s preoccupation with entropy— as both a scientific concept and metaphor.

“Entropy is a measure of randomness, how mixed up a system may be and how uncertain we are about that system,” Lysaght narrates in the film.

The extent to which human behavior has disrupted the critical balance in nature underpins the film’s thesis, which is “activism as a civic duty.” Specifically, Lysaght calls for boycotts.

“If everybody across the globe says, ‘fuck Amazon, fuck Exxon, we’re not going to buy anything from them,’ they will do the heavy lifting, and they’ll change policy,” Lysaght tells SFR during a tour of his gallery (which is open from 5 to 7 pm on Fridays). “People can’t do that directly; I can be carrying a sign in front of the Capitol ‘til the cows come home. Nobody’s going to listen to me.”

While he intends the film as a call to action and a rebuke to what he calls in his book “the disgraceful anti-science movement,” the film resists polemics by grounding itself in Lysaght’s images, which he aptly characterizes as “lyrical portraits of entropy.” Both provocative and visually stimulating, Fleeting Structures has screened and received accolades at myriad film festivals; this week’s showing at the Jean Cocteau Cinema will include an introduction by and Q&A with Lysaght. (Julia Goldberg)

FLEETING STRUCTURE

7 pm, Tuesday, July 18. $10 Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528; entropygallery.com

FILM SAT/15

FILM TUE/18

THE CALENDAR

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

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WED/12

BOOKS/LECTURES

WATER TALK

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

GOING WITH THE FLOW

co-curator Lucy Lippard moderates a discussion between artists, activists and experts on water justice, policy and advocacy.

5:30 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER

SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave., (505) 209-1302

Tapas and toe-tapping.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

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

New Mexican flamenco with an Old World pedigree.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

ALL THINGS YARN

La Farge Library

1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292

Collectively count stitches to your heart's content.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

HISTORY CHAT

35 Degrees North

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

If you don’t talk about it, you’re doomed to repeat it, right?  Noon-2 pm, free

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Thrice-weekly instructor-led bike rides through the city. Free for members of the City of Santa Fe recreation centers.

10-11 am, $5

OPEN MIC COMEDY

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Wayward Comedy welcomes you to the stage weekly. Better make 'em laugh.

8 pm, free

OPEN MIC WEDNESDAYS

Tumbleroot Pottery Pub

135 W. Palace Ave. (505) 982-4711

Local talent, plus abundant booze and clay.

7-10 pm, free

SUMMER FAMILY ART MAKING

New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Creative time for kiddos in the courtyard, with supplies courtesy of the museum.

10 am-noon, free

SUMMER READING CLUB

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Drop off the little ones (grades 3 and under) for a little supervised literary time.

1-3 pm, free

TOUR THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION

New Mexico Governor's Mansion

One Mansion Drive (505) 476-2800

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

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

The theme for this week's storytime and play session hasn't been announced yet, so the little one in your life will be in for a surprise.

10:30 am, free

WRITER'S DEN

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

A weekly quiet, communal space to write to the sound of others' clicking keyboards. And for those who don’t know, Beastly has a coffee shop, too, so you’ll be all set for your typing sesh.

5-6:30 pm, free

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St., (505) 393-5135

Just trust us on this one: At

9:30 pm you‘ll need that chile.

4-10 pm, free

MUSIC

DANA COOPER: SUNSET CONCERT SERIES

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

Nashville folk and Americana, with food trucks on hand for impromptu picnic action. No glass containers and no pets allowed.

6-8 pm, $10-$12

DOS HOOLIGANS

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Dance band melodies courtesy of members of JJ & the Hooligans.

4-6 pm, free

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Bring your bass and join the jazz professionals onstage.

6-9 pm, free

JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Storytelling folk.

8-10:30 pm, free

MADI SATO

La Fonda on the Plaza

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

Jazz world fusion.

6:30 pm, free

WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOLKS

Second Street Brewery

(Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068

Blended boxcar Americana and indie pop provided by Sloan Armitage.

6-9 pm, free

OPERA

THE FLYING DUTCHMAN

Santa Fe Opera

301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900

David Alden brings Wagner's saga of doomed love and salty seas to Santa Fe for the first time in 35 years. (See Opera, page 27)

8:30 pm, $50-$366

WORKSHOP

3D MODELING: FUSION360

MAKE Santa Fe

2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

Learn the basics of the modeling program to explore your brainstorms in additional dimensions.

10 am, $80

AERIAL FABRIC WITH LISA

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

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

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

ARTS ALIVE!

Museum of International Folk Art

706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204

Craft Japanese masks with Kōno Junya in conjunction with the museum's ongoing Yokai exhibit.

10 am-2 pm, free

PSYCHEDELIC INTEGRATION

CIRCLE

Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health 909 Early St., (505) 310-7917

Come with questions about psychedelic experiences (either past or planned) for confidential discussion with Gina Devani.  11:30 am-1 pm, free

THU/13

ART OPENINGS

COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS (RECEPTION) ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320

A multimedia group show featuring Laurinda Stockwell, Norma Alonzo, Tracy King and more.  5-7 pm, free

Landscape photography meets color field minimalism in David Benjamin Sherry: Blue Monsoon, opening this week at Canyon Road gallery smoke the moon.

HAIL! HAIL! ROCK 'N' ROLL 4 (OPENING)

Edition ONE Gallery

728 Canyon Road (505) 570-5385

Rock photography from David Michael Kennedy, William Coupon, Lisa Law and others, alongside a fashion show highlighting Raquel Lopez' latest pieces.

5-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

LAUREN CAMP: AN EYE IN EACH SQUARE

Collected Works

Bookstore and Coffeehouse

202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226

The state poet laureate reads from her new collection.

6 pm, free

PECHAKUCHA NIGHT: VOL.

18 COMMONS

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Speakers are given six minutes and 40 seconds each to share their thoughts on whether the idea of "commons" can serve to unite divided populations. Proceeds support Creative Santa Fe, SITE Santa Fe and PechaKucha.

6:30 pm, $5 suggested

SALON EL ZAGUÁN:

GROWING UP AMID THE MANHATTAN PROJECT

El Zaguán

545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016

Ellen Bradbury-Reid chats about her experiences as a child in Los Alamos during her father's tenure working on the plutonium bomb.

3 pm, $10

DANCE

ECSTATIC DANCE

Railyard Performance Center

1611 Paseo de Peralta

EmbodyDance hosts a weekly DJ'd free movement sesh. Contact hello@ EmbodyDanceSantaFe.com for more information.

6:30 pm, $15

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

The local company joins forces with visiting artists from Spain.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

INTRO TO SOCIAL DANCE

Dance Station

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

Weekly drop-in classes on a variety of dance forms—no experience or partner required. On the menu this week is the tango.

6:45-7:30 pm, $15

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO

SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe

750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800

Castanet clutching.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

2023 BUSINESS ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS: A MASQUERADE AFFAIR

Santa Fe Farmers' Market

1607 Paseo De Peralta (505) 988-3279

A soiree honoring local businesses in categories ranging from woman-owned to green business of the year.

5:30-8 pm, $55-$1,500

BEDTIME STORIES: ICE SCREAM, YOU SCREAM

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Things get drippy and sticky in the multiverse's latest neoburlesque show.

8 pm, $27

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952

Don't call it trivia.

7 pm, free

PRIDE AFTER 5 El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Networking, discussion and post-Pride month queer relaxation.

5:30-7 pm, free

SEEDS & SPROUTS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Alex Finch of the Santa Fe Botanical Garden introduces wee guests to even smaller garden insects in an outdoor activity emphatically titled "Aliens in your Yard!"

10:30 am, free

VÁMONOS WALKS: FIND A NEW PATH

Las Estrellas Trails

2300 N Ridgetop Road (505) 989-7019

Explore the little-known hiking trails behind Thornburg Investment Management.

5:30 pm, free

FILM

CLOSER LOOKS: LOVE STREAMS

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 216-0672

Justin Rhody of No Name

Cinema presents and discusses the John Cassavetes/Gena Rowlands artistic and marital collaboration as seen onscreen in the 1984 indie classic.

6-9 pm, $11-$13

THE CATCHER WAS A SPY

SALA Event Center

2551 Central Ave., Los Alamos (505) 412-6030

Paul Rudd stars as a baseball player turned spy—and if we were looking to hire a double agent, we'd go for Rudd too. Such an innocent face! Who would suspect him? Presented by JJ Mortensen of the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee. Part of the ongoing Manhattan Project Film Series.

6 pm, $70 for series pass

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FOOD

FLIGHT NIGHT

Santa Fe Spirits

Downtown Tasting Room

308 Read St. (505) 780-5906

For those who prefer their tipsiness with less decisionmaking, every Thursday night offers the opportunity to sample four mini cocktails instead of one large one.

3-10pm, free

SUSHI POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Brent Jung brings you seafood fresh off the plane while vinyl DJs spin.

5-8 pm, free

MUSIC

ALEX MURZYN QUINTET

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Sax-centric jazz.

6-9 pm, free

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana and honky-tonk.

4-6 pm, free

BOB MAUS

Bourbon Grill

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

Piano and voice takes on blues and soul classics.

5-7 pm, free

BRIAN ROY HAAS TRIO

Paradiso

903 Early St. (505) 577-5248

Piano-centric jazz with support from Matt Edwards and Cyrus Campbell. Followed by a set from DJ dB Mandala.

7 pm, $20

EDGAR WONDER

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road (505) 428-0090

Familiar tunes for voice and guitar.

2-5 pm, free

JOHNNY LLOYD

The Hollar

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

Old school Americana.

12-2 pm, free

LA BUENA ONDA

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

A monthly femme and queercentric Latin dance party featuring local DJs La Ruda, Rootzrocka, Luz Skylarker y mas.

6-9 pm, free

NOSOTROS AND FRIENDS

Santa Fe Plaza

100 Old Santa Fe Trail lensic360.org

If you don't already know Nosotros' locally beloved norteño music, are you even a Nuevomexicano? Presented by Lensic360.

6 pm, free

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Following years of pandemic pauses and the opening of several new locations in Colorado, Nevada and Texas, Santa Fe-born arts mega-corp Meow Wolf will once again hold court as mutants and monsters flock to the Plaza to indulge in the DJ-led danceoff known as Monster Battle. For the uninitiated, Monster Battle, which first kicked off way back in 2008, is a little bit kaiju, a little bit arts ’n’ crafts and a whole lot of dance party. Attendees are encouraged to dress in their freakiest costumes and makeup, to get weird, to party hard. But what of those who don’t know where to start or have never assembled a DIY costume before? Attendance to Monster Battle becomes all the easier with a free costume creation event led by local costumer, burlesque veteran and circus arts performer Shannon Otto (aka Shannana Bananigans) at Meow Wolf’s new open arts space Rainbow Rainbow (2 pm Wednesday, July 19. Free. Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369). The actual Monster Battle itself with DJs Snaggy, Spoolius and The Muse goes down on Tuesday, July 25 from 4-9 pm on the Plaza, but you’ll want to have your look before then. We spoke to Otto about what aspiring goblins can expect from her upcoming workshop. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. (Noah Hale)

You’re a costumer who has worked on a variety of different projects. How are you involved with this year’s Monster Battle? This is my first year being involved directly with Monster Battle. We’re offering a workshop in the new

community room that Meow Wolf has—it’s called Rainbow Rainbow. I don’t know if you’ve seen that, but you should. We want to allow community members and guests to come in and create things inside of that space...you can create elements for your costume or make a whole new one. We’re going to make masks, tails and maybe capes—just different elements that you can take to Monster Battle.

How has your experience prepared you for an event like this?

I’ve been doing costumes in a variety of settings, like in the burlesque scene and also in circus arts. I was a part of Wise Fool Santa Fe for years. That’s an organization that’s really close to my heart, and we would often put on shows and create costumes for acts that we were doing. And I think that building upon that type of limited resources has kind of given me this way that I can set up these little stations with recycled things or with scraps or with parts of old materials they didn’t use [in Meow Wolf exhibits]; I can use all those little things and allow people to use their own creativity to come up with something [to wear] and just kind of foster that creativity in them and help them. I’ve been a part of circus teams and burlesque teams where we’re working towards a bigger goal— where everybody helps each other. Prior to ever becoming a performance artist or a clown or a costumer, I was a social worker, and I did a lot of art therapy with kids, so I think that I’ll really be bringing some of those experiences in also.

Will people need to bring their own costume materials?

No. We are going to have so many materials. We’ll have different stations, like a mask station and a crown station. And they can use any of the materials that we have, but they are welcome to bring a costume that’s already in progress if they maybe want to embellish it or if they want some advice. They’re welcome to bring something that they’re already working on if they want to. I think we’ll also have a sewing station set up. It’s just to kind of foster that creativity in the community. Because when it comes down to it, everybody is an artist. Meow Wolf has really branched out, but their roots are in DIY, and it’s kind of nice to foster that in our community where we all have started; to stay true to our roots.

With Costumer/Performer Shannon Otto

COURTESY SHANNON OTTO

PAT MALONE

TerraCotta Wine Bistro

304 Johnson St.

(505) 989-1166

Solo jazz guitar.

6-8 pm, free

REGULAR HUMANS

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid

(505) 473-0743

Psychedelic folk.

7 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St.

(844) 743-3759

All rails and cocktails.

7 pm, $109-$129

THEATER

A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

Santa Fe Playhouse

142 E De Vargas St.

(505) 988-4262

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

As a bonus, tonight’s preview is pay-what-you-will sliding scale.

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

WORKSHOP

BEGINNER FABRIC WITH KRISTEN

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

If you've always dreamed of being airborne, the folks at Wise Fool will get you off your feet.

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

HATHA YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Gentle yoga with a focus on breath work.

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

THURSDAY MORNING WHEEL

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio

(505) 988-7687

An all-levels opportunity to practice shaping spinning clay.

10 am-noon, $70

TRAPEZE AND LYRA WITH LISA

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Float through the air with the greatest of ease.

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

YOGA WITH MAURA

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Twist yourself up to unwind among the foliage.

8-9 am, $20-$25

FRI/14

ART OPENINGS

A LEGACY OF THE EARTH:

BRIAN TAAFFE-CORDOVA AND MATTHEW MADISON ROWE (OPENING)

FaraHNHeight Fine Art

54 1/2 E San Francisco St., #4, (575) 751-4278

Geometric paintings and pottery from a pair of lifelong friends.

5-8 pm, free

BOUCHRA BELGHALI (OPENING)

art is gallery santa fe

419 Canyon Road, (505) 629-2332

Playfully organic abstract ink drawings and paintings.

5-7 pm, free

DAVID BENJAMIN SHERRY: BLUE MONSOON (OPENING) smoke the moon

616 1/2 Canyon Road smokethemoon.com

Abstract landscape photography and chromatic paintings.

6-8 pm, free

DOUBLE VISION (OPENING)

Intrigue Gallery

238 Delgado St., (505) 820-9265

The gallery celebrates its 10th anniversary with figurative paintings by Pamela Frankel Fiedler and African art from Robert Fiedler's private collection.

5-7 pm, free

GL RICHARDSON: TWIN WINDOW: A GUADALUPE STREET FEATURE (OPENING)

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Everyday ranch scenes, painted with romanticism.

5-7 pm, free

NOTHING IS HIDDEN (OPENING)

5. Gallery

2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417

A group show featuring works by Z.B. Armstrong, Utako Shindo, Agnes Martin and more.

5-7 pm, free

RON LOPEZ: ART. MEDICINE FOR THE DISEASE OF LIVING (OPENING)

MoMo

143 Lincoln Ave., (505) 690-7871

Modernist paintings and mixed media sculptures.

5-7 pm, free

THIRD ANNUAL GROUP EXHIBITION (RECEPTION)

Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road, (505) 780-5403

This showcase of all the gallery's "established members" marks its last exhibit before the upcoming move to Lincoln Avenue.

5-8 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

AN EVENING OF POETRY

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Red)

1366 Cerrillos Road (505) 428-0996

Visiting poet Rikki Santer is joined by locals Katherine Seluja, Gary Worth-Moody and Mara Saulitis.

7-9 pm, free

BRIDGE TO THE ATOMIC AGE: FROM LOS ALAMOS TO SAN ILDEFONSO PUEBLO TO THE HOUSE AT OTOWI BRIDGE

La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511

Ellen Reid-Bradbury of Los Alamos and the writer and producers of the film-in-development The House at Otowi Bridge discuss the history of Edith Warner's relationship to the Manhattan Project.

2-4 pm, free

DICK SPAS: THE SOUTHWEST: ITS LAND AND ITS PEOPLE

Collected Works

Bookstore and Coffeehouse

202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226

The local photographer reads from his latest book amidst samples of his work.

4 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER

SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave., (505) 209-1302

Do you think flamenco is harder for the performers right now, when the nights are so hot?

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe

750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800

The dancers never seem like they’re sweating, but we’re overheating in our air conditioned offices right now.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

ART SANTA FE

Santa Fe Community

Convention Center

201 W Marcy St., (505) 955-6590

The annual art fair starts with first looks at noon before its collectors' opening night kicks off at 4 pm.  Noon-7 pm, $10-$45

ART WALKING TOUR

New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072

Museum docents guide an art and architecture-centric tour of downtown (weather permitting).

10 am, $20

AURA PHOTOS AND SOUND HEALING

Dragonfly Transformations

129 W San Francisco St., Ste. E, (505) 652-7633

Human atmospheres like having their pictures taken, too. And while you're waiting for Annette Gates to snap that photo, check out the collection of paintings by Erin Fore and the group meditation healing at 6 pm.

5-7 pm, free

BIG FEELINGS

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Gigi Bella shares poems, songs, costume changes and more exploring queer femme Mexicana experience.

7 pm, $8-$15

CRASH KARAOKE

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

We still don’t fully understand what if any relationship exists between this event and the karaoke-based TV show of the same name, but there’s only one way to find out, right?

9 pm-1 am, free

FINE ART FRIDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Guest artists Michael Tomlinson and Jeanne Griffin share an enrichment activity intriguingly described as a "rainbow ribbon pour project." We’re imagining paint is likely involved?

2-4 pm, free

GARDEN CONVERSATIONS:

LINDA CHURCHILL

Museum Hill Café

710 Camino Lejo (505) 984-8900

The Santa Fe Botanical Garden's director of horticulture gives tips for growing a pollinator garden over breakfast before leading a tour of the garden's own plots and plants.

8:30 am, $32-$40

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave.

(505) 955-2500

No wheels? No problem—you can borrow a bike from the Recreation Division if you don't have your own.

10-11 am, $5

MAKE AND BELIEVE TIME

Rainbow Rainbow at Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

One hour's worth of story time and art projects with librarian-selected books.  10 am, free

MINIATURES PAINTING

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Gather weekly to paint table-top game figurines.

4-6:30 pm, free

NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE

ANIMAL ENCOUNTER

Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Folks from the New Mexico Wildlife Center bring native species to greet you.

2:30-3:30 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Each staff or docent tour leader pays special attention to their own floral faves, so it's worth taking the tour more than once.

10 am, $12

THE STARGAZER

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St.

(844) 743-3759

Travel to the Galisteo Basin while enjoying low-light onboard stargazing and live music from Pat Malone and Jon Gagan.

9:30 pm, $139

WALKING HISTORY TOUR

School for Advanced Research 660 Garcia St., (505) 954-7213

Check out the interior of the 1920s estate turned artist residency center. This spot was apparently known as “El Delirio” (The Madness) back in the day, but didn’t we all go through that phase in high school?

10-11:30 am, $15

FILM

BEAT THE HEAT MOVIE MATINEE: FINDING NEMO

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Oh, Dory. We thought the whole "forgetting things almost instantly" deal was fishy as kids, but it's becoming all too real.  3-5 pm, free

FEMME FATALE FRIDAYS Beastly Books 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

A full day devoted to the femme-centric fantasy of Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and beyond.  11 am-7 pm, free

MOVIE NIGHT: PREY Santa Fe Indigenous Center 1420 Cerrillos Road (505) 660-4210

Actor Dakota Beavers and producer Jhane Myers introduce the Comanche Predator prequel.  6 pm, free

FOOD

FRENCH TEA IN THE COURTYARD

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

Celebrate Bastille Day and the museum's ongoing Donald Beauregard exhibit with tea and pastries in the courtyard. 1-3 pm, free with admission

Cyndi Lauper just wants to have fun in William Coupon’s portrait from Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll 4, opening this week at Edition ONE Gallery.

WILLIAM COUPON

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St., (505) 393-5135

Capsaicin and chill.

4-10 pm, free

MUSIC

ALEX MARYOL

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090

Solo blues-rock.

2-5 pm, free

ANDREW PAULSON AND RICHARD BENTLEY

First Presbyterian Church

208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544

Mahler, Poulenc and Tosti compositions for baritone and piano.

5:30 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR

CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

Vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

DETROIT LIGHTNING

Railyard Plaza

Market and Alcaldesa Streets

lensic360.org

982-3373

Grateful Dead tribute with support from Fugitive Colors. Presented by Lensic360.

7 pm, free

MADI SATO

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing

(505) 393-1196

Jazz world fusion.

7-9:30 pm, free

MAGGIE VALLEY BAND

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid

(505) 473-0743

Harmony-heavy indie rock.

8 pm, free

PAT MALONE

Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi

113 Washington Ave. (505) 988-3030

Solo jazz guitar.

5-7 pm, free

REPURPOSED VIBE

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Electro-acoustic covers of familiar melodies from the '60s through the early aughts.

5 pm, free

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave., (505) 988-9232

Rehearsed jazz and jamming.

6-9 pm, free

SANTA FE NOISE ORDINANCE

GHOST

2889 Trades West Road

Instagram @ghost_santafe

Harsh noise and experimental sound.

8 pm, $5-$10 suggested

SILVER SPURS

Eldorado Farmers Market

7 Caliente Road (505) 920-5660

Old-fashioned country amongst fresh produce pickings.

3-6 pm, free

THE PETTY PRETENDERS

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St., (505) 393-5135

Sunbender and Animal Parade with Julie Stewart pay tribute to Tom Petty and The Pretenders.

7 pm, $10

WHISKEY FLOWER

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Pop and Americana.

8-11 pm, free

OPERA

TOSCA

Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900

Puccini's tale of political intrigue, suicide and torture.

8:30 pm, $50-$366

THEATER

A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

The second pay-what-you-will sliding scale performance of the Steven Lutvak-composed farce.

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

RICHARD III

The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, Ste. B (505) 395-6576

One of Shakespeare's longest and most self-referential tales of royal intrigue.

7:30-9:45 pm, $5-$100

WORKSHOP

DROP-IN CRAFTS

La Farge Library

1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292

Create your own cloche, all supplies provided. Just think how fancy you'll feel slipping the word "cloche" into conversation!

2-4 pm, free

FRIDAY MORNING HANDBUILDING

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

No wheels here—it's all about pinch, coil and slab techniques.

10 am-12:30 pm, $70

YOUTH AERIALS WITH KRISTEN

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Young folks explore trapeze, lyra, fabric and rope.

5-6 pm, $19-$24

SAT/15

ART OPENINGS

DUANE BRONSON: PERSISTENT MEMORIES (OPENING)

Crucible Galleries

13 1st St., Cerrillos, (505) 303-8002 Sci-fi imagery on canvas.

5-9 pm, free

LAURIE ARCHER: NOT THE END YET... (OPENING)

FOMA Gallery

333 Montezuma Ave., Ste. B (505) 660-0121

Mixed media works ranging from solar plate etchings to abstract weavings.

3-5 pm, free

POP-UP ART SHOW

Santa Fe Painting Workshops

341 E Alameda St. (505) 490-6232

Peep Pam Trueblood and Andrea Cermanski's latest paintings.  Noon-4 pm, free

THE SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

Santa Fe Railyard Market and Alcaldesa Streets santafeartistsmarket.com

An outdoor juried art market featuring pottery, paintings and more.

9 am-2 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

ASTROLOGICAL ARCHETYPES

Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health

909 Early St., (505) 310-7917

Astrologer Ken Bresee discusses the 12 signs of the zodiac.

1-2:30 pm, free

AUSTRIA SLIDESHOW

Travel Bug Coffee Shop

839 Paseo de Peralta (505) 992-0418

Victoria Rabineau discusses her travels through the land of volk and wiener schnitzel.

5 pm, free

BRIDGE TO THE ATOMIC AGE

Fuller Lodge Art Center

2132 Central Ave., Los Alamos (505) 662-1635

A second lecture on Manhattan

Project history for those who missed yesterday’s event.

7-8:30 pm, free

JOSEPH CAVALIERI

Zocalo Clubhouse

1301 Avenida Rincon (505) 986-0667

The NM Glass Alliance hosts the artist for a discussion of his pop-inspired stained glass.

10 am, free

KIRSTEN RUDBERG

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

The author discusses her twists on the character of Peter Rabbit.

Noon-1:30 pm, free

THE LONG AND WINDING

ROAD: A HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N ROLL

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

A multimedia journey through the genre's history.

11 am-1 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave., (505) 209-1302

Flamenquería de España...

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe

750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800

...Y de Nuevo Mexico.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

ART SANTA FE

Santa Fe Community

Convention Center

201 W Marcy St., (505) 955-6590

A contemporary art fair featuring more than 80 local, national and international exhibitors.

11 am-6 pm, $10-$45

BIG FEELINGS

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601

We hear poet Gigi Bella may have a Selena cover planned.

7 pm, $8-$15

BIKE RODEO AND HELMET

EVENT

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Angelia Velarde Logsdon from Veterans of Foreign Wars and CHRISTUS St. Vincent shares family-friendly bike safety tips.

10 am-noon, free

CRYSTAL MARKET

Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health 909 Early St., (505) 310-7917

Instagram crystal queen Kristin Heber hosts a pop-up sale.

2:30-4 pm, free

FAIRY HAIR FUN

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Get some hair tinsel to go under your helmet from the earlier bike safety event.

11 am-1 pm, free

GARDEN BIRD WALK

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

As Mac Miller would put it, "Walking in the garden and bird watching/Alarming all of these cardinals like I need a pope."

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

KARAOKE WITH CAKE

Cake’s Cafe

227 Galisteo St., (505) 303-4880

Keep the previous evening's crash karaoke festivities going at a second location—with slightly earlier hours and more pastries.

7-11 pm, free

LA TIENDA FLEA

La Tienda at Eldorado

7 Caliente Road

Yard sale on an epic scale.

8 am, free

NATIVE AMERICAN PORTAL ARTISANS' SUMMER YOUTH SHOW

Palace of the Governors

105 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5100

The children, grandchildren and young relatives of current Portal Program members share their own pottery, textiles, jewelry and more.

10 am-4 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Floral fawning.

10 am, $12

READ TO A PUP

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

Little ones improve their reading skills by sharing stories aloud with puppies. There may be adult dogs as well, but it's really all about the pups, right?

11:30 am, free

SAND PLAY SATURDAY

Railyard Park

Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe Street

(505) 982-3373

An opportunity for young'uns to expand their critical thinking while playing with sand, water and toys.

10 am-noon, free

SANTA FE PARENTING

CENTER GRAND OPENING

The Birthing Tree Cooperative 4001 Office Court Drive (505) 552-2454

The local doula collective officially welcomes the public into its permanent digs with a baby and toddler clothing swap, family-friendly creative activities and more.

10 am-2 pm, free

SCIENCE SATURDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Guest scientists Xiaobai Li and Zhe Mei share a hands-on experiment.

2-4 pm, free

VÁMONOS HIKE: FIND A VIEW

Water History Park

1209 Upper Canyon Road (505) 989-7019

A more challenging hike leading to the Picacho overlook.  9-11 am, free

YŌKAI SUMMER FUN

Museum of International Folk Art

706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1204

This event has it all: a screening of the anime A Letter to Momo, mask making, a demon parade... And guests are encouraged to dress as their favorite Japanese ghost, demon or mythical creature.

1-4:30 pm, free

ZIRCUS EROTIQUE

BURLESQUE & VARIETY SHOW

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

A neo-burlesque variety romp featuring local seductrixes Aluna Bun Bun, Mena Domina and more. 18+ only, please.

7 pm, $25-$70

FILM

BEAT THE HEAT MOVIE

MATINEE: HOW TO TRAIN

YOUR DRAGON

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Toothless the uncannily feline dragon will always have a special place in our hearts.

3 pm, free

CELLULOID SHOWCASE

No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org

Celebrate the 100th anniversary of 16mm film with a program of Luis Buñuel, the Brothers Quay, B Western title cards and more—all presented on the century-old format. (See SFR Picks, page 15)

7:30 pm, $5-$15 suggested

FRANKENSTEIN VS. BARAGON

SALA Event Center

2551 Central Ave., Los Alamos (505) 412-6030

The first ever joint US-Japanese Kaiju coproduction features the titular Mary Shelley-created monster. Part of the ongoing Manhattan Project Film Series.

6 pm, $70 for series pass

SATURDAY MORNING

CARTOONS

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Nostalgic cartoons and cereal all day. Pajamas highly encouraged.

11 am-7 pm, free

FOOD

2023 NEW MEXICO IPA

CHALLENGE: ROUND 1

The Drinkery by Bosque Brewing 4980B Promenade Blvd. (505) 303-3356

Sixteen locally brewed IPAs compete in the guest-determined competition. 21+, obviously.

2-5 pm, $10-$30

PLANTITA POP UP

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

A rotating selection of vegan goodies including cherry hand pies, classic blueberry muffins, cinnamon rolls and more.

9 am-1 pm, free

SANTA FE FARMERS’

SATURDAY MARKET

Farmers’ Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Goods from 150 farmers and producers from 15 northern New Mexico counties.

8 am-1 pm, free

THE JOHN RANGEL QUINTET

Dave's Jazz Bistro at the Santa Fe School of Cooking

125 North Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511

Live jazz and a prix fixe menu featuring apricot tarts, squash blossom enchiladas and more.

6:30-9:30 pm, $155

MUSIC

ABBAQUERQUE

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Dancing queens and kings paying tribute to Sweden's finest. (See SFR Picks, page 15)

8 pm, $10

BOB MAUS

Inn & Spa at Loretto

211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-5531

Blues and soul classics.

6-9 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR

CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

Piano and vocals.

6 pm, free

FLEETMAC WOOD

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Bring your best Stevie Nicks-style twirle-able garments for the Fleetwood Mac tribute show. 21+.

10 pm, $24

FREDDIE SCHWARTZ

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090

Classic rock.

2-5 pm, free

GONG BATH + OPTIONAL MICRODOSE

Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health

909 Early St., (505) 310-7917

Gina Devani guides you through a sound bath and THC experience (should you choose to partake).

4-5:30 pm, $25

HELLO DARLIN' Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Bluegrass and Americana.

1 pm, free

JAPANESE CRAFT IN LIGHT AND SOUND: SUNSET CONCERT

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

The rescheduled koto show hits the outdoor stage, lit by an installation of wagasa umbrellas.

7-9 pm, $10-$12

JAZZ ON THE PATIO

Palace Prime

142 W Palace Ave. (505) 919-9935

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

5:30-7:30 pm, free

MARKETMUSIC

Sanbusco Market Center

500 Montezuma Ave. (505) 837-4951

Severall Friends presents biweekly baroque concerts paired with Farmers’ Marketappropriate food talks.

Noon-1 pm, $20 suggested

ODD DOG

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Jam band jamming.

3 pm, free

PH8 WITH THE BEES & LOCUSTS

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Indigenous hip-hop with support from Outstanding Citizens Collective.

8-10 pm, free

PAT MALONE AND JON

GAGAN

La Boca (Taberna Location)

125 Lincoln Ave., (505) 988-7102

Guitar-centric jazz.

7-9 pm, free

REPURPOSED VIBE

Paxton's Taproom

109 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-1290

Electro-acoustic covers.

7-9 pm, free

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave., (505) 988-9232

A jazz extravaganza. A jazzstravaganza, if you will.

6-9 pm, free

SILVER SKY BLUES BAND

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

You guessed it—blues (and a smidge of rockabilly).

8-11 pm, free

OPERA

PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE

Santa Fe Opera

301 Opera Drive, (505) 986-5900

Netia Jones directs Debussy's oneiric tale of regal love triangles.

8:30 pm, $50-$336

THEATER

A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

Murder and love? A little something for everybody!

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

RICHARD III

The Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive, Ste. B (505) 395-6576

A Shakespearian take on court intrigue for those less interested in opera.

7:30-9:45 pm, $5-$100

WORKSHOP

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado 198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

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

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

UNRAVELING LIFE’S CODE: EXPLORING NUMEROLOGY TO UNDERSTAND YOUR PRE-INTENDED STORY Prana Blessings

1925 Rosina St., (505) 772-0171

You needn't be a math geek to enjoy playing with digits from a divinatory perspective.

12-1:30 pm, $25 ZIPPY HUMMINGBIRDS WITH STEPHANIE WEST AND WENDY AHLM

Artisan Santa Fe 2601 Cerrillos Road artisansantafe.com Capture your own buzzing bird in watercolor. Supplies are not included, so you might want to check the website for a list of what to bring.

Noon-4 pm, $80

SUN/16

ART OPENINGS

HORIZONS: WEAVING BETWEEN THE LINES WITH DINÉ TEXTILES (OPENING)

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269

The museum celebrates its new exhibition with multiple weaving-related panels, food trucks, live music from Connor Chee (Diné), spinning demos and plenty more fiber-related fun.

10:30 am-4 pm, free

MATT KAPLINSKY LIVE PAINTING DEMO

Thornwood Gallery

555 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0279

The artist shares his process and fields questions about his nature scenes.

11 am-5 pm, free RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET

Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Buy directly from local creators.

10 am-3 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

FREETHINKERS FORUM: LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SANTA FE bit.ly/46C5wzr

Amanda Rivera De Garcia and Mary DuBose chat about their work coordinating tutors for the local literacy program.

8:30 am, free

SECULAR ALLIANCE: PREPARATION FOR DEATH— CONCLUSION, REFLECTION, CONVERSATION bit.ly/3XFprJy

The pragmatically morbid series wraps with a conversation about green burial led by Sandra Huerta, family advisor for the Santa Fe Memorial Gardens.

Noon, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave., (505) 209-130

Get your weekend’s final flamenco fix.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe

750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800

Don’t fret though, flamenco fans—both companies will be back on Wednesday.

1:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

A WORLD WITHOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Santa Maria De La Paz Catholic

11 College Ave.

(505) 831-8205

Archbishop John C. Wester hosts an interfaith remembrance of the anniversary of the Trinity bomb test. Expect representatives from Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Soka Gakkai International-USA, the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium and more.

4-6 pm, free

ART SANTA FE

Santa Fe Community Convention Center

201 W Marcy St., (505) 955-6590

Your last day to browse offerings at the annual contemporary art fair.

11 am-6 pm, $10-$45

BIG FEELINGS

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601

Gigi Bella shares poems, songs, costume changes and more exploring queer femme Mexicana experience.

4 pm, $8-$15

JOE HAYES

Reunity Farms

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

The local storyteller shares al fresco Southwestern tales. Bring your own chair.

7 pm, free

NATIVE AMERICAN PORTAL ARTISANS' SUMMER YOUTH SHOW

Palace of the Governors

105 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5100

The second and final day showcasing up-and-coming relatives of Portal Program artists.

10 am-4 pm, free

OPEN MIC JAZZ

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Join High City Jazz Quartet

onstage and bring your Billie Holiday or Chet Baker dreams to life.

5-7 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

Hopefully the monsoons will have arrived by today’s tour and the garden will be happy and drenched.

10 am, $12

SUMMER SUNDAYS HAPPY HOUR

Tumbleroot Pottery Pub

135 W. Palace Ave. (505) 982-4711

In addition to the typical drink discounts, expect price cuts on clay and live jazz from 1-3 pm.

11 am-4 pm, free

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FILM

FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY

SALA Event Center

2551 Central Ave., Los Alamos (505) 412-6030

Roland Joffé dramatizes the relationship between J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves (incongruously played by Paul Newman). Presented (virtually) by Dan Cordle. Part of the ongoing Manhattan Project Film Series. 3 pm, $70 for series pass

MUSIC

CHILLHOUSE WITH HILLARY SMITH

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Jazz and blues.  12-3 pm, free

CLARK LIBBEY DUO

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

Straightforward country.  1 pm, free

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Master pianist Montgomery performs in the President's Room. 6 pm, free

HEAVY DIAMOND RING

El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Indie folk-rock.  7-9 pm, free

JULIE STEWART AND ANIMAL PARADE

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

Traditional blues.  3 pm, free

MOZART AND SCHUMANN

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

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival kicks off its season with violinist Cho-Liang Lin, violist Yura Lee and more.  6 pm, $73-$100

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OPEN AND UNPLUGGED

ACOUSTIC JAM

Eldorado Community Center

1 Hacienda Loop, Eldorado (505) 466-4248

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

4-6 pm, free

PAT MALONE TRIO

Bishop's Lodge

1297 Bishops Lodge Road (888) 741-0480

Guitar-centric jazz.

11:30 am-2:30 pm, free SHINYRIBS

SWAN Park

Jaguar Drive and Hwy. 599 lensic360.org

Texas blues meets New Orleans funk. Presented by Lensic360.

6:30 pm, free

SUNDAY JAZZ

New York on Catron

420 Catron St., (505) 982-8900

Bagels and upright bass with Louis Levin et. al.

11 am-1:30 pm, free

SUNDAY SWING

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Groove alongside the Cyrus Campbell Trio.

1-4 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

All rails and cocktails.

7 pm, $109-$129

THE TUDORS AND THE MEDICI

Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

131 Cathedral Place(505) 982-5619

Desert Chorale singers accompanied by period instruments perform courtly compositions.

4 pm, $10-$100

THEATER

RICHARD III

The Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive, Ste. B (505) 395-6576

Join the Theatre Lovers Club for a post-show talkback with members of the cast and crew. Sign up at theatresantafe.org/rsvp.

2-4:15 pm, $5-$100

WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION TO ZEN MEDITATION

Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 303-0036

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

10-11:15 am, free

KIDS' CREATIVE MOVEMENT

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

Dancer Tamara Bates helps little ones explore new forms of expression through movement.

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

SUNDAY YOGA IN THE PARK

Bicentennial Alto Park

1121 Alto St.

Build strength (and, quite likely, lung capacity) with Vinyasa yoga.  10 am, $15

SUNDAYS WITH GESHE LA

Thubten Norbu Ling

Buddhist Center 130 Rabbit Road (505) 660-7056

Geshe Sherab discusses Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment. 10 am, free

MON/17

BOOKS/LECTURES

INSTRUCTOR IMAGE PRESENTATIONS

Santa Fe Prep Auditorium

1101 Camino de Cruz (505) 983-1400

Santa Fe Workshops photography instructors Jean Miele, Elizabeth Opalenik and Susan Burnstine share and discuss their own work behind the lens.

8 pm, free

JOSEPH H. SUINA

Hotel Santa Fe

1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200

The former Cochiti Pueblo governor discusses the pueblo's history in the 1950s and ‘60s. Presented by Southwest Seminars.

6 pm, $20

EVENTS

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Bicycle! Bicycle!

10-11 am, $5

OPEN MIC WITH CAKE

Cake’s Cafe

227 Galisteo St. (505) 303-4880

All mediums welcome—visual artists can bring pieces to share, too.

5:30-8 pm, free

FILM

VIDEO LIBRARY CLUB

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

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

6:30 pm, free

MUSIC

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse

414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Ivory tickling.

6 pm, free

KIPP BENTLEY

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana singer-songwriter. Very on brand for the Cowgirl.

4-6 pm, free

MOZART AND SCHUMANN

St. Francis Auditorium at New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival fills the air with the sounds of strings.

6 pm, $73-$100

QUEER NIGHT

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

A portion of sales from the cocktail special go to the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico.

5-11 pm, free

SIM BALKEY

Santa Fe Plaza

63 Lincoln Ave., lensic360.org

Straightforward country with support from Bard Edrington V and The Blackbirds. Presented by Lensic360.  6 pm, free

WORKSHOP

ADVANCED WHEEL

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

Bring your throwing expertise to the next level with new tricks such as advanced shapes and lidded vessels.

6-8:30 pm, $70

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Get those chakras saying “ahhh.”

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

TEEN/TWEEN AERIALS WITH KRISTEN

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road

(505) 992-2588

For all those 11-15 who are curious about acrobatics, this class offers the opportunity to explore trapeze, lyra, fabric and rope.

5:15-6:15 pm, $19-$24

UNICYCLING AND JUGGLING WITH INDI

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

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

6:30-8 pm, $22

TUE/18

BOOKS/LECTURES

HOMEGROWN: A CONVERSATION WITH JEFFREY TOOBIN

Hotel Santa Fe

1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200

The author discusses his work tracing the rise of right-wing extremism from Timothy McVeigh onward. Presented by Global Santa Fe and Collected Works Bookstore.

5:30 pm, $25-$35

EVENTS

BARRIO DE ANALCO

WALKING TOUR

San Miguel Chapel

401 Old Santa Fe Trail

(505) 983-3974

Oliver Horn trots past downtown's oldest adobes. Presented by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation.

9 am, $50-$60

BEHIND ADOBE WALLS HOME AND GARDEN TOURS

Eldorado Hotel and Spa

309 W San Francisco St.

(505) 988-4455

Visit four different homes.

10:15 am-4:30 pm, $125-$155

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Santa Fe Brewing Company

35 Fire Place, (505) 424-3333

Not-so-trivial pursuit.

7 pm, free

GRAZE DAYS

Railyard Park

740 Cerrillos Road, (505) 316-3596

Sheep munch through the garden.

Baa-dass. (See SFR Picks, page 15)

10 am-4 pm, free

OPEN MIC POETRY AND MUSIC

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Be a modern-day bard.

8 pm, free

SANTA FE FARMERS’ MARKET INSTITUTE TOURS

Santa Fe Railyard

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Enjoy breakfast, discussions of the institute's work and a guided tour.

9 am, free with registration

FILM

FLEETING STRUCTURES

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Patrick Lysaght shares his doc advocating for “activism as a civic duty.” (See SFR Picks, page 15)

7 pm, $10

FOOD

SANTA FE FARMERS’ DEL SUR MARKET

Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center 4801 Beckner Road, (505) 983-7726

Fresh veggies for the Southside.

3-6 pm, free

SANTA FE FARMERS’ TUESDAY MARKET

Farmers’ Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Un-bay leaf-ably fresh produce.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC

GARY GORENCE

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

Storytelling folk.

4-6 pm, free

INON BARNATAN PIANO RECITAL

St. Francis Auditorium at New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072 Schumann and Rachmaninoff, presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.  12 pm, $35-$40

JAMES MCMURTRY

Santa Fe Plaza

63 Lincoln Ave., lensic360.org

Americana and blues with support from Bill Hearne. Presented by Lensic360.  6 pm, free

WORKSHOP

DEPARTING IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

A guide to organizing your online life as part of preparing your estate.

9-11 am, free

HATHA YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Gentle, breath-centric yoga.

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

QUEER BURLESQUE WITH AUDREY

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Queer folks learn to create a burlesque persona, walk a stage, strip clothing items and more.

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

SLACKLINE AND POI WITH ELI Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Fire spinning and rope walking.  5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

La Emi

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orange segments and piñon. The resultant flavor combo makes perfect sense now. We did not finish the onion rings, and though the shrimp fared better, it was ultimately unremarkable.

For our main courses, we chose a great-

BY ALEX DE VORE @sfreporter.com

Here’s the thing about a $69 steak: It comes with certain expectations.

Of course, you want your steak to be cooked as requested, to be of a certain size and quality, but when any dish clocks in at a price point like that, a restaurant implies they’re going to take care of you as well. Fine dining prices equals fine dining service, or should. At Santa Fe’s much-storied Rio Chama Prime Steakhouse from local food conglomerate Santa Fe Dining (which owns La Casa Sena and Maria’s among others), this was not the case, however, at least not for a companion and I during a recent dinner. It’s hard to tell whether our experience was the product of the restaurant going through growing pains as former Luminaria chef Tony Smith takes over the top job, but after spending nearly $300 on an evening best described as “fine,” I’m not sure I’m eager to find out what’s next on the Rio Chama docket.

And it all began in a windowless side room. I won’t presume to know the machinations of our host, but walking beyond the windows that spilled the cool blue light of evening into the ancient building on Old Santa Fe Trail certainly did sting. Nevertheless, Rio Chama’s interior remains a tastefully appointed affair no matter where

you’re seated. The part I loved less came in the form of our server, a very friendly but timid man who seemed terrified to meet us, who never once crumbed our table and who needed prompting to remove plates that were clearly clut tering up the joint. Perhaps most bizarre was when he boxed leftovers from an appetizer right at our table. I’m not sure if this was some new fangled fine dining practice, but I’d have been booted from the hallowed halls of Santacafé forever had I done such a thing while employed there.

We made an aggressive approach to the menu to kick things off, ordering dou ble cut onion rings ($14), coconut shrimp with a sweet and spicy agave dipping sauce ($22) and a beet salad split for two ($17; $3 extra for the split). While the first two starters tasted akin to some thing one might find under a heat lamp at Sizzler, the beet salad was one of the more notable appetizers I’ve had in a local restaurant lately. The beets were truly fresh and came in generous portions, and in conjunction with the leafy arugula and fresh burrata cheese, the salad was not only bright and tasty, but zesty—a fine amuse that perked up my tastebuds and piqued my interest for the dishes to come. Perhaps the best part of the salad were two ingredients I had not thought to pair:

($55) and the 45-day dry-aged ribeye ($69), 16 ounces of each. I’m pleased to report Rio Chama does indeed still offer a mean steak, and whereas some might underestimate the simple pleasure of a piece of meat cooked how you envision it, the kitchen respected my request for the ribeye to come mostly medium with maybe just a little bit of pink inside. Same goes for my companion, who went for the classic medium cook for her New York strip. To round out the meal, we ordered sides

of creamed spinach and a wild mushroom and garlic melange. While the mushrooms were a treat of flavors that worked well with the meat, the creamed spinach felt more like a holdover from some antiquated ’60s take on the steakhouse. Still, what does it mean when diners spent a solid five minutes discussing how novel it is to get steaks cooked to their specifications? It means they’ve been disappointed before.

The steak cookery and seasoning pleased our palates; not so for the desserts. My companion’s lemon-lime cheesecake ($12) sounded pleasant but lacked promised citrus and tasted far too sweet. My insistence that ordering creme brulee ($12)—that old fine dining standby—was a good way by which to judge a dessert menu came with disappointment, too—listless, flavorless disappointment. The dessert became a noteworthy punctuation to the meal, a reminder that what we’d just experienced had been serviceable at best. Restaurants have their off nights, certainly, but with prices like Rio Chama’s that becomes harder to justify, especially in a city where numerous other steak options abound.

Rio Chama remains a middle-of-the-road option, but the prices promise better

STEAK; BEAUTIFUL BUILDING - LACKING SERVICE; BORING APPS; DISAPPOINTING DESSERT

Rio Chama still serves up a mean steak, like this dry-aged ribeye.

Blue Monsoon

Ship Shape

SFO’s The Flying Dutchman marks year two for successful Wagner operas

Museum Orchestra—talked about the challenges of conducting The Flying Dutchman, an early work of Wagner’s he says “marries” both Wagner’s “admiration for the great bel canto” writers from Italian and French opera tradition with “the depth and also the weight…of the German language.”

Some have referred to The Flying Dutchman, for these reasons and others, as Wagner’s “crossover” opera, and it’s widely seen as the opera in which, as Prezant says, Wagner becomes Wagner: He writes his own libretto and begins establishing the leitmotifs—musical formulas representing characters, themes and ideas—for which he would become known in works such as Tristan und Isolde and The Ring Cycle

BY JULIA GOLDBERG @votergirl

His own unpleasant journey with wife and dog across the Baltic sea to London as they fled their creditors helped inspire Richard Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman, which premiered in 1843 in Dresden.

“This voyage I never shall forget as long as I live,” he writes in his essay “Autobiographic Sketch.” He continues: “It lasted three and a half weeks, and was rich in mishaps. Thrice did we endure the most violent of storms, and once the captain found himself compelled to put into a Norwegian haven. The passage among the crags of Norway made a wonderful impression on my fancy; the legends of the Flying Dutchman, as I heard them from the seamen’s mouths, were clothed for me in a distinct and individual colour, borrowed from the adventures of the ocean through which I then was passing.”

In his prelude talk before the July 7 production, opera lecturer Oliver Prezant led attendees through some of the sounds Wagner infuses into the opera’s famous overture and throughout, which capture the rhythm of the ocean’s waves and the

sailors calls and the like (as I did last year, I highly recommend catching Prezant’s 30-minute pre-show talks, which are informative and entertaining for both the opera-curious and aficionados).

But the opera grew out of more than Wagner’s personal experience and aural nautical enchantment. As James M. Keller points out in his Santa Fe Opera program essay (also another wonderful resource for the season), Wagner had fixated on and highly identified with the myth of the Flying Dutchman, particularly as depicted in Heinrich Heine’s 1833 novel The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski, in which it is described as “the story of an enchanted ship which can never arrive in port, and which since time immemorial has been sailing about at sea.” In Wagner’s opera, the Dutchman (bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee in the SFO production this summer) “is doomed to live forever” at sea but given the chance every seven years to redeem himself by finding a woman who will love him eternally. When Norwegian Captain Daland (bass Morris Robinson) encounters the Dutchman and his ship, the story of the former and the riches aboard the latter convince Daland

to bring the Dutchman home to woo his daughter Senta (wonderful soprano Elza van den Heever). Senta, as it happens, is already enraptured with the Dutchman’s tale and determined to help him break the curse, her suitor Erik (tenor Chad Shelton) notwithstanding. Spoiler alert: She succeeds by sacrificing her life to prove her love.

The Santa Fe Opera has not mounted The Flying Dutchman since 1988 (with two prior productions in 1971 and 1973). The 1988 show, Prezant noted, began with an actual storm and the musicians “huddling under the lip of the pit playing away and saying, ‘We are playing chamber music with God.’”

No such luck last Friday but, even without the hand of God—or the start of the monsoon season—the overture under the direction of Conductor Thomas Guggeis, making his SFO debut (through Aug. 15; Alden Gatt will conduct the final performance on Aug. 25), required no help from nature.

In a pre-season interview with Brent Stevens on Classical Public Radio (95.5 FM), Guggeis—designated general music director of the Frankfurt Opera and

The melding of different approaches in The Flying Dutchman makes for “a huge task and a fun task,” Guggeis notes, for the orchestra “to find the right colors to make this piece speak to us.” And, of course, the singers face the same challenge. In this production, they rise to the occasion. Former SFO apprentice Brownlee returns for his second Wagner opera in two years— he played Kurwenal in last year’s Tristan und Isolde—and navigates as Dutchman what he describes in an interview as the significant “high and heavy” demands of the role as if they were as natural as breathing (at altitude, no less). His performance, along with van den Heever’s and Daland’s were the highlights of the show— along with the orchestra and chorus.

I was less taken with the visual elements of Director David Alden’s production. I had the benefit of reading about them in advance via Mark Tiarks’ Pasatiempo interview with Alden, who explained his contemporary vision of the opera as a critique of the ghost-ship industrial complex, so to speak. This was interesting to ponder but not that interesting to look at—I would have preferred an oceanic versus cargo-container aesthetic. Fortunately, the music carries the show and one can always close one’s eyes.

THE FLYING DUTCHMAN BY RICHARD WAGNER IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH AND SPANISH SUBTITLES

8:30 pm July 12 8 pm July 31, Aug. 5, Aug. 10, Aug. 15, Aug. 25 santafeopera.org/whats-on/ the-flying-dutchman/ $45-$385; $15 standing room.

First-time NM residents are eligible for a 40% discount; call the box office in advance: (505) 986-5900 or (800) 280-4654. Day-of discounts available for students, seniors and military via the box office by phone or in person.

Left to Right; Chad Shelton (Erik), Nicholas Brownlee (Dutchman) and Elza van den Heever (Senta) in the Santa Fe Opera’s production of Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman

PAST LIVES

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The Lesson Review

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

British television director Alice Troughton makes the leap to the big screen with The Lesson, a tense drama steeped in the obsessive nature of writers and writing, but one that also touches on the bizarre lengths to which some might go to achieve or keep fame.

Someplace in England, a young writer named Liam (Daryl McCormack; Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) takes on a tutoring position for the son of a massively famous author (veteran character actor Richard E. Grant; Gosford Park) and his wife (a cold and stoic Julie Delpy). Something terrible happened at the family estate where Liam finds himself working, only he might have worse things bubbling within him in his quest to not only meet his hero, but to also complete and sell his own in-progress novel.

Grant’s famous author, meanwhile, attempts to complete his latest tome while navigating the pressures of the written word. Writing, if you didn’t know, is incredibly difficult; book fans, too, have proven impatient when waiting for their favorite’s next opus. What, The Lesson ponders, is the point to any of it? What makes a good writer in the first place? “Good writers borrow,” says Grant’s character. “Great writers steal.”

Eventually, young Liam becomes embroiled in family politics, though he might be in love with dra-

+ SONG’S GORGEOUS EYE FOR DETAIL; GRETA LEE IS THE G.O.A.T.

- SOME STAGE-Y DIALOGUE

First love is a tricky phenomenon to talk about, let alone capture onscreen. Almost everyone old enough to read film reviews in their spare time will have a specific face flash through their minds on hearing the phrase. But given the experience’s near-universality, there’s little a lover or a filmmaker can say about it without sounding painfully mundane. First love, especially as remembered, lives in hyper-specific details. And it doesn’t come to those who are ready for it—the potency is tangled up in the impossibility of its timing. Those twin barriers—language and time—are the primary obstacles to Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung’s (Teo Yoo) rekindled childhood romance in Celine Song’s feature debut, Past Lives. But they’re also the main adversaries with which Song—mostly successfully—wrestles as a director.

Past Lives begins with a long shot across a bar of a woman and two men (Nora, Hae Sung and Nora’s husband Arthur) drinking together while an unseen couple speculates about the trio’s relationship. Sister, brother, friend? Wife, husband, lover? What are they to each other? This sole voiceover encourages the audience to cling to the tiniest details of the image but, before we have time to take a guess, the scene ends. It will repeat later in the movie, only from a different angle; we never have the oppor-

ma and uses heartache to advance his own schemes. The Lesson moves slowly and methodically by carefully dropping expositional breadcrumbs and hints, but rather than falling victim to the sometimes glacial pace of British drama, its mounting sense of dread leads to an ultimately small yet explosive showdown. At its core, the twist, as it were, examines the ego-driven responses to the vulnerable nature of creation and the heartless academia that permeates the arts. All the while, the oppressive nature of British decorum drives icy exchanges and hurtful rhetoric—stiff upper lip and all that, old chap, even as your family is grinding down to dust.

McCormack proves more than worthy of his legendary co-stars Grant and Delpy, though the latter finds the most well-rounded truths for her character and, thus, the most magnetic performance. Troughton makes constant use of mirrored imagery: reflections

tunity to fully retrace those first missed moments. We have to catch them as they come.

It’s a good lesson for the rest of the film, which is at its most achingly effective when Song’s camera obsesses over specificities like a lemon wedge in a saucer, hands on a subway pole, the patterns of traffic crossing the Brooklyn Bridge. Like the characters themselves, the filmmaking falters when Hae Sung and Nora try to put their feelings to words, which occasionally tips over into heightened dialogue that feels more appropriate to one of playwright Nora’s works than the intimate conversations onscreen.

But ultimately the pressure of time, not language, proves most difficult for both characters and director. Song gracefully elides the passage of first 12, then 24 years from the moment when 12-year-old Nora leaves Hae Sung in South Korea to the present day. But when the two finally do come together, their dynamic is so compelling and their onscreen meeting so comparatively brief that as the credits roll it seems as if some third part, some final meeting 36 years later, was left on the cutting room floor. Maybe that sense of absence intentionally echoes the bittersweet sting of first love. Maybe it’s simply the anxiety of an extremely methodical, early-career perfectionist director seeking relatively safe narrative ground. But if Past Lives leaves you wanting more, that seems a promise of significant future captivation to come from Song. (Siena Bergt) Violet Crown, CCA, PG-13, 105 min.

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY

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in water and windows and so forth to show the duality of outer politeness, inner monologue. Grant’s maniacal and reputation-obsessed author looms large, meanwhile, even if his ideas of control are so misplaced he can’t see what his own family thinks of him. Maybe he doesn’t care, at least not when compared to the adoring public. The Lesson then stings repeatedly in its ever-accelerating journey to conclusion. In the end, though the events are intense, they feel small and pointless in the most gutting way.

Why would anyone ever become a writer? Perhaps the same reason anyone ever does anything—to be loved, even if it’s only by so many strangers.

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UNDERSTANDS INDY; FORD STILL RULES

ANTONIO BANDERAS ONLY ONSCREEN FOR, LIKE, TWO MINUTES

In the 15 years since Steven Spielberg’s wildly disappointing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull hit theaters, those charged with caring for the iconic adventuring archaeologist have certainly learned a lot. Well, mostly they’ve learned what audiences want from an Indiana Jones film. The recipe is simple, really: stylized action meshed with a supernatural element steeped ultimately in realworld history. Oh, and the whip, too. Logan director James Mangold more than delivers on these elements and then some with Indy’s newest adventure, the Dial of Destiny, and it’s easily the most fun to have in a theater so far this summer.

Here, the aging Dr. Jones (Harrison Ford, duh) lives a lonely life in New York City some decades after he and his colleague Dr. Shaw (Toby Jones) stole an artifact designed by Archimedes from the clutches of the Nazi Dr. Voller (Mads Mikkelsen). The astrolabe-like device promises alarmingly powerful possibilities, which drove Shaw mad in the years that followed, but Indy kept the thing hidden away after his colleague’s death.

The fun begins when Indy’s goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) shows up to remind him how they might be able to crack the dial’s mysteries at long last. Voller, however, has come to America

as well (to work on the moon landing, which not only nods to the Nazi scientists working in America post-WWII, but does the heavy expositional lifting quite nicely) and still wants the object, too—cue globe-trotting action.

Mangold’s Indy wows in its smaller moments, which read like little love notes to premises from previous films and the radio dramas that inspired them. It also boasts top-tier car chases, train chases and explosions. More importantly, Mangold understands his audience spans generations, from the kids looking for something fun and the middle-agers who grew up shrieking with glee anytime Last Crusade was on the table, to the older folks who long for the feel of old Bogart films or have followed Dr. Jones since the start.

The emotional beats feel relatable and true, whether in the painful reminders that time moves all too quickly or that we miss our lost loved ones— or that our most thrilling days might be behind us. Still, the film posits: It’s never too late to do something big, or to try our best to correct or accept the actions we’ve taken along the way. Indy is still sexy and powerful, but he’s wiser now and more considerate in how he acts. Thus, when the final big set pieces hit the screen and the John Williams music swells with its all-too-memorable notes, it feels so right to cap off his decades and escapades on a high note. Let’s hope this is the final chapter, because it’s literally everything you could want from an Indiana Jones movie. (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, Regal. PG-13, 154 min.

THE LESSON Directed by Troughton With McCormack, Grant and Delpy Violet Crown, R, 103 min.

SMART PERFORMANCES; PAINFUL BUT RIVETING - OPENING ACT LAGS

by Matt Jones

18 Take the helm

22 Bend with a prism

25 Deck with wands

26 Entertainment realm

28 “OK, whatever” sound

29 “OK, whatever” sound in response, maybe?

30 Shrimpboat gear

32 Key dessert

34 “La Mer” for Debussy, for example

35 Joaquin’s “Walk the Line” costar

36 European GM affiliate

37 Motley ___ (Tommy Lee’s former band)

38 Actor Bud of “Harold and Maude”

42 Kate who married Spielberg

43 Cancel out

46 Plaza Hotel girl

47 It’s almost always used to spell “and”

48 Like old phones, retronymically

51 Rommel of WWII history

53 Subway option

55 Mountain range feature

56 Bolt from the blue

57 Adelaide biggie

58 “1001 Nights” creature

60 Porcine home

61 1999 Frank McCourt book

Fiction, $17.99

ALLERGIC by Theresa MacPhail Hardcover, Non-Fiction, $28.99 THE

by Katy Hays Softcover,

PSYCHICS

Rob Brezsny Week of July 12th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Many astrologers enjoy meditating on the heavenly body Chiron. With an orbit between Saturn and Uranus, it is an anomalous object that has qualities of both a comet and a minor planet. Its name is derived from a character in ancient Greek myth: the wisest teacher and healer of all the centaurs. Chiron is now in the sign of Aries and will be there for a while. Let’s invoke its symbolic power to inspire two quests in the coming months: 1. Seek a teacher who excites your love of life. 2. Seek a healer who alleviates any hurts that interfere with your love of life.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s high time for some high culture! You are in a phase to get rich benefits from reading Shakespeare, listening to Beethoven, and enjoying paintings by Matisse and Picasso. You’d also benefit lavishly from communing with the work of virtuosos like Mozart, Michelangelo, and novelist Haruki Murakami. However, I think you would garner even greater emotional treasures from reading Virginia Woolf, listening to Janelle Monáe’s music, and enjoying Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings. For extra credit, get cozy with the books of Simone Weil, listen to Patti Smith’s music, and see Frida Kahlo’s art. If you read between the lines here, you understand I’m telling you that the most excellent thing to do for your mental and spiritual health is to commune with brilliant women artists, writers, and musicians.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The French phrase j’ajoute (translated as “I adjust”) is a chess term used when a player is about to adjust their pieces but does not yet intend to make a move. J’ajoute might be an apt motto for you to invoke in the coming days. You are not ready to make major shifts in the way you play the games you’re involved in. But it’s an excellent time to meditate on that prospect. You will gain clarity and refine your perspective if you tinker with and rearrange the overall look and feel of things.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Simpsons animated show has been on TV for 34 seasons. Ten-year-old Bart Simpson is one of the stars. He is a mischievous rascal who’s ingenious in defying authority. Sometimes teachers catch him in his rebellious acts and punish him by making him write apologetic affirmations on the classroom blackboard. For example: “I will not strut around like I own the place. I will not obey the voices in my head. I will not express my feelings through chaos. I will not trade pants with others. I will not instigate revolution. I am not deliciously saucy. I cannot absolve sins. Hot dogs are not bookmarks.” In accordance with your unruly astrological omens, Cancerian, I authorize you to do things Bart said he wouldn’t do. You have a license to be deliciously saucy.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Early in her career, Leo actor Lisa Kudrow endured disappointments. She auditioned for the TV show Saturday Night Live but wasn’t chosen. She was cast as a main character in the TV show Frasier but was replaced during the filming of the pilot episode. A few months later, though, she landed a key role in the new TV show Friends. In retrospect, she was glad she got fired from Frasier so she could be available for Friends. Frasier was popular, but Friends was a super hit. Kudrow won numerous awards for her work on the show and rode her fame to a successful film career. Will there be a Frasier moment for you in the coming months, dear Leo? That’s what I suspect. So keep the faith.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The coming weeks will be a good time to seek helpful clues and guidance from your nightly dreams. Take steps to remember them—maybe keep a pen and notebook next to your bed. Here are a few possible dream scenes and their meanings. 1. A dream of planting a tree means you’re primed to begin a project that will grow for years. 2. A dream of riding in a spaceship suggests you yearn to make your future come more alive in your life. 3. A dream of taking a long trip or standing on a mountaintop may signify you’re ready to come to new conclusions about your life story. (PS: Even if you don’t have these specific dreams, the interpretations I offered are still apt.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In reviewing the life work of neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, critic Patricia Holt said he marveled at how “average people not only adapt to injury and disease but also create something transcendent out of a condition others call disability.” Sacks specialized in collaborating with neurological patients who used their seeming debilitations “to uncover otherwise unknown resources and create lives of originality and innovation.” I bring this up, Libra, because I suspect that in the coming months, you will have extra power to turn your apparent weaknesses or liabilities into assets.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s a mistake to believe we must ration our love as if we only have so much to offer. The fact is, the more love we give, the more we have available to give. As we tap into our deepest source of generosity, we discover we have greater reserves of it than we imagined. What I’ve just said is always true, but it’s especially apropos for you right now. You are in a phase when you can dramatically expand your understanding of how many blessings you have to dole out.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Home computers didn’t become common until the 1980s. During the previous decade, small start-up companies with adventurous experimenters did the grunt work that made the digital revolution possible. Many early adapters worked out of garages in the Silicon Valley area of Northern California. They preferred to devote their modest resources to the actual work rather than to fancy labs. I suspect the coming months will invite you to do something similar, Sagittarius: to be discerning about how you allocate your resources as you plan and implement your vigorous transformations.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’m tempted to call this upcoming chapter of your life story “The Partial Conquest of Loneliness.” Other good titles might be “Restoration of Degraded Treasure” or “Turning a Confusing Triumph into a Gratifying One” or “Replacing a Mediocre Kind of Strength with the Right Kind.” Can you guess that I foresee an exciting and productive time for you in the coming weeks? To best prepare, drop as many expectations and assumptions as you can so you will be fully available for the novel and sometimes surprising opportunities. Life will offer you fresh perspectives.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): By 1582, the inexact old Julian calendar used by the Western world for 13 centuries was out of whack because it had no leap years. The spring equinox was occurring too early, on March 10. Pope Gregory commissioned scientists who devised a more accurate way to account for the passage of time. The problem was that the new calendar needed a modification that required the day after October 4 to be October 15. Eleven days went missing—permanently. People were resentful and resistant, though eventually all of Europe made the conversion. In that spirit, Aquarius, I ask you to consider an adjustment that requires a shift in habits. It may be inconvenient at first, but will ultimately be good for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean novelist Peter De Vries wrote, “Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation—the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.” In the coming weeks, you Pisces folks will be skilled at weaving these modes as you practice what you love to do. You’ll be a master of cultivating dynamic balance; a wizard of blending creativity and organization; a productive change-maker who fosters both structure and morale.

Homework: What’s the best gift you could give yourself right now?

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NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME

TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Lyndsey LeKay McCumsey will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma, Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 10:30 a.m. on the 22nd day of August, 2023 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Lyndsey LeKay McCumsey to Lulu LeKay.

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Submitted by: Lyndsey McCumsey

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE IN THE SANTA FE COUNTY PROBATE COURT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MATILDA E. ROMERO, Deceased.

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IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Kate Sweetser McConaghy

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO No.: 2023-0151

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