Santa Fe Reporter, June 14, 2023

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RECORD WAIT TIME 8

Man’s IPRA suit against the City of Santa Fe seeks his own arrest records

A TREK INTO TECH 10

City of Santa Fe introduces online option for voters to support candidates

SIGNING ON FOR SUN 11

Companies prepare to pitch residents on community solar

COVER STORY 12

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The Writers Guild of America strike pushes New Mexico’s film industry to the brink of another transformation

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Record Wait Time

Man’s IPRA suit against the City of Santa Fe seeks his own arrest records

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The latest lawsuit filed against the city over alleged violations of the state public records law highlights Santa Fe’s ongoing difficulty in transparency compliance.

Sidney Heilbraun has been waiting months for records about his own arrest.

Heilbraun claims in his suit, filed in District Court on May 26, that the city violated the state Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) after it blew past a statutory 15day deadline to respond to his request for records generated when police arrested him on suspicion of impaired driving.

Taylor Smith, Heilbraun’s attorney, says his client was “unlawfully detained” and initially sought to sue the city for violating his rights. Smith tells SFR the city met the request for the details of his client’s arrest with silence until nearly a month after the initial ask. He still does not have all the records.

“Attorneys like myself, we like to do a little bit of due diligence. We don’t just like to throw out lawsuits wil ly nilly,” Smith says. “This delay just hangs up that process, and my client being vindicated for being unlawfully detained and arrested and charged.”

Heilbraun told police at a DWI check point near Cerrillos and Cristo’s roads, just before his March 5 arrest, that he drank al cohol earlier that night, according to an initial re port, the only document Smith has received so far. According to the police report, Heilbraun was ar rested because of his field sobriety test performance and because he smelled of alcohol and had watery, blood-shot eyes. He submit ted to two breath tests later at the police department that both showed no evidence of alcohol. Heilbraun was al lowed to drive himself home.

“Mr. Heilbraun was released due to the fact that he blew 0.00 on both samples,” the report reads.

Heilbraun received a summons days later to appear at Santa Fe Municipal Court for a DWI charge, but Smith says the city prosecutor’s office quickly moved to drop the case. City Prosecutor Kyle Hibner did not respond to a request for an explanation, but the motion to dismiss cites a lack of evidence.

On March 27, Smith submitted a broad request for reports, videos and dispatch logs related to his client’s arrest, which kicked off the 15-day window for police to either respond or supply records. According to a screenshot of his request provided to SFR, on April 18 (about a week past the deadline), Smith notified the records custodian that the city had violated state law. The city waited to respond until

densome or broad and we need additional time to respond, until 5-26-23,” the reply reads. “Some responsive material has been released to you today, 4-25-23. Your patience is greatly appreciated as we continue gathering and reviewing material that may be responsive to your request.”

Then, on May 25, the city said it would take even longer for the records—June 27, to be exact.

“We’ve been waiting since late March to get these records. And we won’t even have them,” Smith tells SFR. “So we’re knocking on the door of July.”

Heilbraun’s suit is just the latest instance of long waits leading to litigation.

In April, the city agreed to pay former city Councilor Steven Farber $50,000 in a settlement over an IPRA violation. At least two other lawsuits alleging the city has violated IPRA are pending: Louis Carlos, a former Santa Fe Police officer turned private investigator and now City Council candidate, seeks police records in five different cases and filed the court action in April; and Santa Fe resident Jared O’Shell filed a lawsuit in May seeking documents about contracts between the city

whistleblower suit and a subsequent IPRA suit, the latter resulted in an August 2022 order that the city pay Williams more than $35,000 in attorney’s fees and court costs. Williams’ whistleblower case was dismissed in April, stipulated by both sides.

Grover, also representing Carlos in his IPRA case, chalks up the delays to administrative ineptitude.

“Hot button items, like videos, or non-traditional records, like background investigations or Intoxilyzer reports, definitely are getting, I think, at best, sort of bureaucratically delayed by their lack of taking the seriousness of IPRA, and really embedding it into their processes,” Grover says.

City Attorney Erin McSherry did not comment on Heilbraun’s case, noting the city has not been served, but she laid out some of what has contributed to records request delays in an email to SFR.

“Most recently,” she writes, the city received “over 8,000 requests in one calendar year” and responded by expanding the city’s IPRA team from two to three by adding an “IPRA Manager.”

One of those employees, former police spokesman and later IPRA Specialist Greg Gurule, recently left to take a job with the state Department of Cultural Affairs, though she says the city is on track to fill

“Some of our other current challenges are the number of hours of police dash cam and body cam video that must be reviewed for potential redactions (the team estimates we are currently reviewing around 30 hours a week) and the thousands of emails that are often potentially responsive to individual requests and require review for non-responsive and/ or protected material,” McSherry writes.

But Greg Williams, a member of the board of directors of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, says IPRA, like all state laws, doesn’t make compliance exceptions for a lack of

“A public entity can’t get away with non-compliance with the law just by asserting that they don’t have enough people to do the job,” he says. “If the city of Santa Fe can’t provide access to records within a reasonable time because they don’t have enough personnel to deal with requests, then the solution is to hire more people and to increase their budget for public

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A Trek Into Tech

City of Santa Fe introduces online option for voters to support candidates

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For the first time in Santa Fe’s history, voters can now use an online portal to sign nominating petitions and make qualifying donations for candidates seeking public campaign financing in the Nov. 7 election.

The city joins Albuquerque as the only two municipalities in the state to offer an online option for the processes. City Clerk Kristine Bustos-Mihelcic describes the new portal as “exciting,” saying it has been on her priority list since taking office about a year and a half ago.

“It’s been a huge desire to bring technology in a variety of ways in my department,” she tells SFR. “This was a transition that we heard would be great, and I think it has been really convenient for candidates and residents.”

The introduction of the portal comes just months after changes made in an election code rewrite allowed for electronic contributions.

Santa Fe elections have included the option for candidates to seek public campaign cash since 2008. Candidates for City Council who collect enough $5 contributions from voters in their districts receive $15,000 and pledge to only use that money for the campaign rather than conducting private fundraising. Council candidates seeking public campaign financing can, however, collect “seed money” contributions of up to $100 per donor with a cap of $3,750 for expenses in the early campaign period.

Katherine Rivera, a candidate for the District 1 City Council seat who is seeking public funds, says she and her fellow candidates see the benefits of the online portal, though she notes it could use a few improvements such as a fix to slow-loading screens that may deter voters, as well as a better method to make sure both steps in the two-step process are completed.

Some voters, she tells SFR, are hesitant to share personal data over the internet.

The portal, she says, is “a valuable asset, but it’s a hard sell for those with data

concerns.” That’s especially true among older voters, she says.

A 2021 online survey of nearly 3,000 adults from AARP Research found that 34% of people aged 50 and over cited privacy concerns as a top barrier for adopting new technology, and 83% were not confident what they do online remains private.

Rivera says the city has been responsive to feedback from the candidates.

When discussing data concerns, Bustos-Mihelcic acknowledged the “very valid fear,” but said the city took steps to ensure data security, and still allows other forms of verification.

“There were measures that were put in place; we worked very closely with our IT department and our finance department,” she says, “and we also still have options for people who just don’t feel comfortable sending an online nominating petition.”

For those people, a hard signature and cash or a check will do the trick.

District 3 City Council seat candidate Louis Carlos says both his wife and son have used the online service without error. Despite this, he prefers many aspects of the traditional option to the online option.

“[The online portal] is a good tool for people that can actually just go online and enter their information and go straight to the candidate they want to support, but nothing is going to beat a grassroots campaign where you’re shaking hands and meeting people in the community,” he says.

Bustos-Mihelcic says the City of Santa Fe recently generated a QR code that will be sent to candidates who plan to go door to door and can also be included on promotional items like handouts.

The online option has an edge over the in-person option because of its immediate registered-voter verification, a feature which both Rivera and Carlos commended. Viewers can also monitor online how much a candidate has collected so far.

Bustos-Mihelcic says New Mexico is working towards a statewide online option for nomination petitions and qualifying donations in the next election cycle, and noted she’s been in touch with the Office of the Secretary of State about the process of creating the portal.

The city leaned on officials in Albuquerque who had rolled out a similar portal. Bustos-Mihelcic says she plans to

conduct an evaluation of the program after the period for candidates seeking public funding to qualify has ended.

“Sometimes I say we should be at the forefront of an opportunity, or we can wait and see how everyone else does it,” she says. “And in this case, I was actually really excited and really proud of the city being a step forward and the support that we’ve received to move forward with this program.”

Candidates seeking public campaign financing must collect nominating petitions and reach 150 qualifying contributions from registered voters by July 24. Those not seeking public funds can declare their candidacy until Aug. 29.

To make a qualifying contribution or sign a petition, visit https://santafepcf.com.

CANDIDATES SEEKING PUBLIC CAMPAIGN FINANCING

DISTRICT 1

» Alma Castro

» Brian Gutierrez

» Katherine Rivera

DISTRICT 2:

» Michael Garcia

» Phil Lucero

DISTRICT 3:

» Miguel Acosta

» Louis Carlos

» Eric Morelli

DISTRICT 4:

» Joel Nava

The city’s election portal allows for electronic collection of nomination petition signature and qualifying public campaign contributions.

SOURCE: CITY OF SANTA FE

Signing on for Sun

Companies prepare to pitch residents on community solar

tion,” with a mind toward safety, reliability and compliance. Utility customers can expect to see solicitations from the subscriber organizations any time.

The 11 subscriber organizations can sign up community solar customers anywhere in the customer’s home utility range, and community solar power can be shared throughout the range. In other words, don’t expect local electrons.

Those who sign up can expect two monthly bills: One from the community solar company for their share of the electrons, and one from the utility with a credit.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

BY JOHN R. ROBY byjohnrroby

When community solar arrives for Santa Fe, the electrons will be 100% sun-grown, if not strictly local.

The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission announced in May the facilities that had been chosen to run solar operations in support of the state’s Community Solar Act, passed in 2021.

Community solar aims to extend the benefits of lower-cost, clean solar energy to people who cannot install solar themselves due to circumstances such as oddities of their property or roof, or being tenants in a non-solar building.

Utility customers will be able to subscribe, Netflix-style, to a share of energy generated by a network of community solar stations. New Mexico’s law includes incentives for low-income households as well. Typical savings might be 10% per utility bill, aside from any green impact.

“We see this as a great benefit to our customers,” PNM spokesperson Terri Reishus tells SFR. “It’ll give them an opportunity to get a bill credit and to help the environment, too.”

PNM customers in Santa Fe are likely a year away from seeing benefits, experts agree, but the buildup is beginning. Solar facilities—including one approved site in Eldorado—will be coming online with the utilities’ help, and the companies will be soliciting subscribers. Expect knocks on doors.

HOW IT WILL WORK

PNM, the state’s largest electric utility, has committed to complete carbon-free power generation by 2040, and community solar is part of the big strategy. Even with a horizon of a year or more until switches are flipped, the utility is already staffing up and reaching out to the community solar companies—offering “white-glove service,” as Alaric Babej, PNM’s principal of customer energy solutions, describes it.

“As with anything new it’s hard to know what we don’t know, but we’re dedicated to working with all the vendors and customers to make this as seamless as possible,” he says.

The 45 approved community solar bids call for “farms” capable of generating up to 5 MW. Twenty-nine of them are in PNM’s service area, with a final capacity of 125 MW. The farms are operated by one of 11 “subscriber organizations”—the companies that submitted successful bids run the solar farms, and to subscribe customers to community solar.

The selection process proved controversial, and while the PRC dismissed most of them in May, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican, some complaints remain to be sorted out.

One winning bid will result in the Rancho Verano Sol Community Solar Garden in Eldorado, a 5 MW facility operated by SunShare Community Solar, based in Denver. SunShare says it has over 16,000 residential, commercial and municipal

community solar subscribers in Colorado and Minnesota. It also had nine community solar bids approved in May, including sites in Deming, Portales, and Clayton. Neither SunShare Community Solar or the Eldorado Community Improvement Association responded to requests for comment.

Next, PNM and the two other participating New Mexico utilities will guide the bids through the process of grid “interconnec-

Thanks in part to organizations like the Coalition Of Sustainable Communities New Mexico, community solar aims to benefit more than just people who were already eyeing private solar. The coalition is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization within the Santa Fe Community Foundation that includes the city, Albuquerque and Las Cruces, Bernalillo and Santa Fe counties and others. It focuses on climate policy with an emphasis on equity, says Christian Casillas, director of policy development and research.

The organization lobbied for development of the community solar law and had a voice in the subsequent PRC rulemaking process. To address equity, the law sets a floor: 30% of the capacity of all community solar projects must be dedicated to low-income households or to low-income-serving organizations.

The bid process also incentivized the operators to better serve low-income households, Casillas says. Bidders could earn higher scores for things like more favorable solar credit rates and for plans to set aside more than the 30% capacity floor to low-income subscribers.

The coalition is working with low-income-serving organizations so people will be prepared when the operators begin soliciting subscribers. Members are also thinking bigger than just a utility bill discount, Casillas says. “We’re interested in job-creation, in apprenticeships, in community-based ownership of projects as well.”

On the flip side, “consolidated billing” of the subscriber organization bill and the utility bill is already on the coalition’s list for improvements.

“We want to remove every possible barrier to somebody signing up for community solar,” Casillas says. The prospect of paying two bills for what feels like one service “is not as easy for folks who are unbanked or who pay their utility bill with a cashier’s check.”

Large photovoltaic farms similar to this one at the UNM-Taos Klauer Campus have been approved for New Mexico’s community solar program.

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A s with anything new it’s hard to know what we don’t know, but we’re dedicated to working with all the vendors and customers to make this as seamless as possible .

-Alaric Babej, PNM’s principal of customer energy solutions

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BY SIENA SOFIA BERGT siena@sfreporter.com

Seeing the ghost town of the Santa Fe University of Art and Design swarmed with artists again was downright eerie. The campus provided the training ground where so many locals learned to make movies—or worked on the likes of Longmire, No Country for Old Men and True Grit. But appropriately enough, the roster of local and international talent gathered outside the dormant art school on May 26 weren’t on campus to create anything. The ranks—including George RR Martin, Nashville screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury, Dark Winds director/producer Chris Eyre (Cheyenne and Arapaho), and even, later in the day, Good Omens author Neil Gaiman—had come to protest what they see as a threat to the nature of storytelling.

“It feels slightly—not to overplay it, but—existential,” explains Harry Werksman (Grey’s Anatomy), a local Writers Guild of America member. The union’s members across the US stopped working and hit picket lines last month in an attempt to negotiate better contracts with production executives.

Film studios have refused writers’ demands for increased streaming residual pay, and viewership data is just one of the sticking points between the two sides. Corporations such as Netflix and Amazon are hesitant to share numbers that could be used to calculate view-based payouts.

“They say, ‘We don’t know how many

people watch these shows,’ and I’m like, ‘Whatever we talk about right now, we’re getting ads for it on the way home, right? You’re tracking me,’” Werksman says.

WGA members, meanwhile, argue previous agreements don’t sufficiently account for their work’s success, particularly internationally—leaving them with diminished and often untenable incomes compared to the days of reliable residuals from broadcast and cable television.

After negotiations with studios disintegrated, the WGA officially went on strike May 2 in its first walkout since the 100-day shutdown of 2007-2008—which cost Los Angeles an estimated $2.1 billion in economic impact. Analysts at the beginning of May predicted losses this time could meet or exceed $3 billion—and since then Hollywood strikers have proven more focused on actively obstructing production than in 2007. The ripple effects are now reaching Santa Fe.

Local anxiety surrounding the strike has

as much to do with the act of writing professionally as with associated wages.

“I’ve had my work adapted to Hollywood movies and TV, and I’ve felt very taken advantage of,” Douglas Preston, Santa Fe co-author of the Agent Pendergast series and president emeritus of the Authors Guild, tells SFR at the protest. “You know, AI and ChatGPT were trained ‘reading’ our books. I went to ChatGPT and said, ‘tell me about [the character] Aloysius Pendergast.’ I got every detail. And obviously it can’t be stopped, right? You can’t turn off the internet. What we want is to set up a licensing system.”

While such a system might reimburse writers for existing work, guild members also fear use of AI to supplement script revisions and “mini rooms”—small groups which preprep storylines to slash staff writer hours.

“It’s very short-sighted,” says Game of Thrones scribe George R.R. Martin, who attended the demonstration with a friend dressed as a dragon. “I mean, these newer

writers are in mini rooms and writing scripts, and then they’re sent away. They’re not allowed to be part of the production. That’s crazy. Writers are a valuable part of the production process—and that’s also valuable to the writers because they learn about production. The staff writers of 2023 are the showrunners of 2033—except they can’t be if they’re never allowed near a set.”

Figures like Martin represent the complexity of the situation. He has proven a vocal advocate of the strike, helping to organize the SFUAD action and sharing similar supportive sentiments on his blog. Yet, not all productions of his work have ceased in solidarity. Wild Cards, which was seeking a platform when the walkout began, is on pause from development, and writers rooms for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight have shut down. But House of the Dragon, on which Martin is credited as an executive producer, is still under production in Europe—with no staff writers on set.

If it was increasingly difficult for new WGA members to access such sets pre-strike, it’s impossible now—and will remain so until the parties reach an agreement. Under union contracts, production can only move forward on “locked” scripts—those officially finished with the editing process—and no major changes can be made on-set, since writers’ approval would be needed. In theory, that might not sound like an insurmountable complication. In reality, it can creatively and pragmatically hamstring a project.

Beyond giving actors confidence to improvise (a complex gray area under current strike rules—Ryan Reynolds, for example, is prohibited from ad-libbing on the set of Deadpool 3 because of his status as a writer), the freedom to edit text can make the difference between a lost day of production and a successful pivot when something goes wrong.

If a location in Diablo Canyon gets washed out by a monsoon or an actor misses the day’s last flight into Santa Fe and an entire scene must be changed, only members of the screenwriters union may tweak pages to accommodate the issue. And especially in New Mexico, where many productions depend on local guild members to ensure cultural authenticity, shooting through the strike could yield unintended consequences.

Some writers believe current industry conditions pose far greater threats to representation than the strike itself.

“Hollywood is a privileged industry; writing is a privileged job.” Chelsea Devantez, a New Mexico native and recent head writer for The Problem with John Stewart, tells SFR over the phone from LA. “If things are this bad here, it’s a bad sign everywhere. And the way the pay has broken down, you can’t get a start out here unless you’re rich. It’s going to make it impossible for economic diversity,

Writers Guild of America strike pushes New Mexico’s film industry to the brink of another transformation

which has a racial and ethnic tie-in. I don’t want everything to come from a trust fund baby, and if we don’t win it’s going to be even harder than it already has been.”

The current strike is far from the first time the New Mexico film industry has faced a serious threat. A chart of the economic history of filmmaking in the state (see page 14) features a series of alternating dips, peaks and pauses to survey for real or perceived danger.

Before the strike, the number of New Mexico worker days on set and overall industry spend were swelling. According to a March press release from the governor’s office, New Mexico productions created $1.5 billion in direct in-state spending over the past two fiscal years, with the industry supporting around 8,000 jobs at a median wage of roughly $32 an hour. But take a spin through the archives of any major trade paper such as Variety or Deadline for mentions of New Mexico and you’ll quickly spot a pattern: Numerous stories from the past two or three years touting Tamalewood’s cinematic virtues; a smattering of enthusiastic coverage from 2006 through 2011. In between? Almost nothing, save an article every four years or so with sweaty headlines like “New Mexico: Film Hot Spot on the Mend.” On the mend from what? For that we have to rewind further—to 2002.

That’s the year New Mexico adopted its film tax credit—which became one of the first five incentive programs in the country (alongside Louisiana, Minnesota, Hawaii and Missouri). The process was largely shepherded by former Gov. Bill Richardson and

producer Eric Witt (Army of Darkness), who served as Richardson’s deputy chief of staff and later helped found the Santa Fe Film Office.

“The heyday was during the Richardson administration,” Witt recalls. “I remember a dinner with Richardson and [then-governor of California Arnold] Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger looks at Richardson and says, ‘Bill, stop stealing my fucking movies!’”

The tax credit in those early days was fairly simple, offering a 15% rebate on

qualified in-state spends (local rentals, resident crew wages, location fees, etc.). By 2006 it rose to 25%. During that time the number of productions being shot in New Mexico more than quadrupled. And these were memorable titles: From prestige pictures like 3:10 to Yuma to blockbusters like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and the ubiquitous Breaking Bad—notable for being set in New Mexico exclusively as a result of tax incentives. Direct production spending climbed too, from $62 million in 2005 to $276.7 million in 2011. The latter was, after all, the year The Avengers came to town.

It’s hard to imagine from today’s Marveldrenched standpoint what might have been if our state remained the franchise’s home throughout its multi-billion-dollar 2010s ascent. Instead, Marvel left New Mexico the same year Susana Martinez was sworn in as governor.

“They whacked it.” Witt says, explaining the Martinez administration’s early approach to the film industry.

Martinez started her term by firing the director of the film office (leaving the seat empty for half a year), slashing its budget and adding new hoops to the incentive such as a $50 million annual cap and delayed payments for projects with budgets over $2 million—a category which includes nearly all Hollywood productions.

“[Then] In 2013-14,” Witt continues, “They started to realize, largely hearing from their own constituencies and supporters,

‘you’re hurting us, not Hollywood—they’ll just go somewhere else.’”

By 2014, total direct production spending had dropped to $162.1 million—less than half what it had been in Martinez’s first year. Under economic pressure, New Mexico launched another attempt to seduce Hollywood, starting with the so-called Breaking Bad Bill, which offered episodic projects and features shooting in qualified facilities a rebate boost to 30%. Benefits were later extended to TV pilots, and additional provisions were added to make it easier for companies to leverage rebates in attracting financiers.

By the time Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham took office in 2019, big-budget productions were tentatively returning to the state. But Lujan Grisham, unlike Martinez, embraced the film industry from the start—especially the streamers.

Within months of her swearing in, Lujan Grisham signed a bill upping the annual rebate cap from $50 million to $110 million. That law also opened a loophole: The cap wouldn’t apply to any companies signing a 10year commitment to New Mexico. Netflix had already made just such an agreement through its purchase of Albuquerque Studios in late 2018. By mid-2019, NBCUniversal followed suit with a similar 10-year Albuquerquebased deal. It’s no wonder film business was booming the past few years; the major players were operating in an environment that catered directly to them. Until now.

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I mean, these newer writers are in mini rooms and writing scripts, and then they’re sent away. They’re not allowed to be part of the production.

That’s crazy.

-George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones scribe

LEFT: George R. R. Martin holds a “Santa Fe for WGA” sign during the May 26 picket party at SFUAD. RIGHT: Chants of “Hey hey! Ho ho! This corporate greed has got to go!” fill the air as protesters march.

Those same companies making long-term commitments to New Mexico are now among the biggest forces in opposition to the writers’ strike—which puts our state in a complicated position as the walkout continues. And locals predict the struggle has only just begun.

“This strike is going to be no less than 100 days long because [production companies] tipped their hand that they have enough in the pipeline to weather 100 days,” says Santa Fe writer Kirk Ellis (John Adams). “But solidarity is holding. Back in 2007 the situation between the unions was very different.”

The 2007-2008 WGA strike ended after the Directors Guild of America signed a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers—which promptly used that agreement to leverage writers into a contract. On June 3 of this year, mere days before the negotiation deadline, DGA’s board once again approved a deal during a WGA strike (terms now move to members for ratification). Some points, such as streaming residuals and restrictions on AI, relate directly to the WGA demands while other concerns, such as mini-rooms, remain unaffected.

But the new agreement may not bring such a swift end to the 2023 strike. The ‘23 DGA deal came relatively early into the WGA walkout, when morale among strikers like those outside SFUAD remains high. And even before agreement was reached, the WGA telegraphed refusal to allow a repeat of 2008.

“The AMPTP playbook has been to divide and conquer…labor,” the WGA wrote in an email to members on June 1. “That strategy, however, depends on divided unions. This year is different. Every union in town came out in support of the WGA, both during negotiations and after the start of the strike… Our position is clear: To resolve the strike, the companies will have to negotiate with the WGA on our full agenda.”

One point in that new DGA deal will stand out immediately to film workers in New Mexico—the banning of live ammunition on sets. It’s a clear response to the still-looming specter of Rust, on which actor/producer Alec Baldwin accidentally discharged a live round from a prop gun—killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza in an incident inextricable from the complex dynamics of film unions in our state.

Productions in New Mexico (including those that apply for tax credits) are not required to hire union workers, though most do. Given the bottleneck of union labor when multiple productions shoot here simultaneously, it’s not uncommon to see non-union crew on what started (or were intended) as union sets. When union crew members walked off the Rust set the day before the fatal shooting, for example, they were replaced by non-union workers. And First Assistant

Director Dave Halls—who was convicted of negligent use of a deadly weapon earlier this year for his role in Hutchins’ death—is not a DGA member, even though the film was being produced under a DGA contract. So while mixed union and non-union sets aren’t hard to find locally, such undercutting has been associated with danger.

That same tangled and congested on-set workforce has one other distinctive impact on New Mexico’s strike dynamics. When

WGA DEMANDS VERSUS COMPANY INCOME

Hollywood productions come to our state, most locals hired are “Below-the-Line,” or BTL—a term that encompasses positions ranging from cinematographers to costume designers to production assistants. Directors, producers, stars and writers, on the other hand, are known as “Above-the-Line” (ATL). But where demand for local BTL workers has been reliably strong, ATL positions are almost always staffed out of California.

Of course there are plenty of ATL work-

ers here. But not all of them have the same opportunities to qualify for unions as their BTL brethren. Part of this is likely a matter of studios hesitating to offer such positions to unfamiliar locals (a bit of a catch-22); yet in-state film programs also tend to favor BTL avenues. The newly announced state-run New Mexico Media Academy, for example, plans to partner with Netflix, NBCUniversal, BTL union IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) and others to

The approximately 16,200 members of the WGA advocate for increased pay, residuals and employee hours from the 350+ companies comprising the AMPTP. Out of those corporations, eight top earners would collectively pay $343 million of the proposed $429 million in increases—through sums amounting to less than a fraction of 1% of each company’s annual earnings. Two top companies, Netflix and NBCUniversal, have headquarters in New Mexico.

BREAKDOWN OF NM PRODUCTION EXPENDITURE OF PROJECTS

When projects shoot in New Mexico, not all expenses are eligible for the state film tax incentives. The following chart details which external industries that in-state spend—both eligible and ineligible—touches.

offer a program-to-union accelerated pipeline for BTL positions. And while requirements for each union differ according to the skills represented, no comparable ATL union partnerships have been made public.

This yields an unusual dynamic in New Mexico—BTL union members, despite often having less control on-set, hold a more stable position in the local landscape. Under typical conditions the situation can play into existing dependence on Hollywood productions, rather than self-perpetuating through homegrown projects. But in the midst of the strike, it offers a trial-by-fire for local ATL to BTL union relations. If the overall atmosphere of solidarity holds, it could potentially open doors for shifts in the current power balance.

In typical Santa Fe fashion, the on-theground reality is slightly behind the rest of the country. The SFUAD protest on May 26 was not meant to halt production, as progressively more WGA actions are angling to do.

By contrast, earlier Albuquerque demonstrations indefinitely shut down filming on Duster—a project that, much like House of the Dragon, saw its executive producer join pickets long before production ceased. And protests in LA increasingly institute crack-of-dawn start times to establish pickets before crew members arrive—barring production on many scripted series still attempting to shoot. Both writers and producers across the US are planning for a narratively grim stretch, with ABC already announcing a fall season utterly devoid of new scripted content.

That said, local momentum continues to build. The New Mexico branch of the Screen Actors Guild, for example, openly urged members to vote for SAG-AFTRA strike authorization (which allows threat of strike as a bargaining tool, rather than immediately beginning a walkout) before the overwhelming approval of authorization on June 6.

“The industry has changed dramatically, and we need a contract that protects you,”

wrote local president Marc Comstock in an “urgent message” posted to the SAG-AFTRA website on May 24. “I’m heartened by the solidarity I’ve already seen from members when the news of this action was announced. Ensuring our negotiators have the leverage they need has never been more important— now is the time to demonstrate our unity.”

Even Mayor Alan Webber indicated support for the WGA strike by visiting the picket line on May 26 in Santa Fe.

“The movie business is big in Santa Fe,” Webber tells SFR. “The writers make the movie business go. We’ve got facilities here, and typically they’d be going full blast. But until this gets settled, they’re gonna have to slow down and get their house in order.”

And evidence of that deceleration is starting to show.

“New Mexico currently has 19 projects in production.” says Amber Dodson, director of the New Mexico Film Office. “The work stop-

page will impact production, as shows get delayed and postponed. However, New Mexico has a strong pipeline of inquiries. We are confident our experienced crew and talent base, unique locations and ecosystem for film and television are resilient.”

Yet data the film office released last year on the state’s 109 productions highlighted catering and hospitality, equipment supply, travel and vehicle rental and construction as among the film-adjacent industries which benefit most from Hollywood business—with one vendor attributing 5-10% of its annual sales to production. Such sectors are likely to face particularly quick repercussions as local sets leave town.

“Productions we’ve had are wrapping in the next few weeks…for the first time in years we have one of our stages open,” notes Santa Fe Film Office Commissioner Jennifer LaBar-Tapia. “A lot of the studios have been in a holding pattern. Normally

[Santa Fe Studios] would be booked almost immediately.”

For example, when the studio’s previous tenant Roswell didn’t make it to a fifth season, the Walker, Texas Ranger prequel Walker: Independence swooped in to claim the space within days if not hours.

Today’s vacancy is not entirely surprising. New Mexico specializes in landscape-centric narrative filmmaking, not the unscripted projects (reality television, certain documentaries, etc.) studios rely on to feed streaming pipelines during the strike. It’s hard to imagine Bravo launching a Real Housewives of Albuquerque, for example. Short term, this means the state might see greater dips in production than coastal areas with more diversified content industries. But LaBar-Tapia believes it also could cause a corresponding rush when the strike ends and backlogged scripted work returns.

“The floodgates are going to open and everyone’s going to be calling looking for a place to shoot,” she predicts.

Union members will likely wait until at least mid-August (Aug. 10 will mark 100 days from the start of the strike), if not later, for agreements. But action on this scale, whether successful or not, marks a moment of shift in the industry both nationally and locally. And historically, such seismic adjustments have often been ground zero for new voices breaking into a notoriously insider industry.

“The [1988] strike launched my career,” asserts Santa Fe local Melinda Snodgrass (Star Trek: The Next Generation) from the picket line. “It happened because the strike ended and they needed material, and so I’m hoping for a lot of younger writers this will be the same result—that when the strike ends we’re gonna have this influx of new, fresh talent...There’s a ton of talent here. All they need is a shot, these young writers. There’s no reason why the writers’ rooms have to be in LA. They need to be here.”

T he strike [in 1988] launched my career. It happened because the strike ended and they needed material, and so I’m hoping for a lot of younger writers this will be the same result...

-Melinda Snodgrass, writer for Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: The Next Generation writer Melinda Snodgrass made New Mexico her year-round home early in the pandemic.

HARD-DEE-HAR-HAR

As Pride month keeps a-rolling in Santa Fe, our locally based Human Rights Alliance has numerous events planned ahead of the big party on the Plaza on Saturday, June 24—its 30th. We recommend catching it when comics Marga Gomez and Jared Goldstein together take over the theater space at the Scottish Rite Center with their particular blend of yuks. In 2019, Time Out LA named Los Angeles’ Goldstein one of its comics to watch; and Gomez’s prolific playwright chops (13 solo acts at last count) and theater work in NYC prove she probably has a way with words and a way with laughs. In summation: We could all surely use a laugh, here’s how to get it.

(Alex De Vore)

PRIDE30 Comedy Night: 6:30 pm Friday, June 16

$25-$75. Scottish Rite Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta hrasantafe.org

ARTS FRI/16-SUN/25

THE NEWEST OF NEW MEDIA

Awwww, yeah—it’s CURRENTS time of year, that glorious annual week-or-so wherein notably new media artists from around the art-o-sphere converge upon Santa Fe with immersive, engaging and often interactive works in video, VR, AR, sound, light, installation and on and on and on. 2023 marks the 13th iteration of the fest, as well as its third venue—this time the sprawling Santa Fe County Fairgrounds. And though we could rattle of a list of names and media to consider, if you know you know; and if you don’t, now’s the time to learn. Hats off to founders Mariannah Amster and Frank Ragano for keeping CURRENTS alive through the years, and hats off to Santa Fe for understanding its vitality and importance in the broader art world. Do note that day passes run $10, but an all-access pass will only cost you $5 more. (ADV)

CURRENTS: 5-11 pm Friday, June 16, noon-11 pm Saturday, June 17 and noon-7 pm Sunday, June 18. Through Sunday, June 25. $10-$15. Santa Fe County Fairgrounds

3229 Rodeo Road, currentsnewmedia.org

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THE LOWDOWN

Back in the summer of 2016, when Santa Fe’s downtown museums all agreed that lowrider cars rule and hosted a bunch of joint exhibits, the late former mayor Javier Gonzales declared there would forever be a Lowrider Day in Santa Fe. And guess what? Another is upon us, though the event has grown from a simple lowrider cruise to add hydraulics competitions, a visual arts element and more. There’s an argument to be made for New Mexico having the most impact on the culture in the years since second generation Mexican immigrants started lowering their Chevys in LA, but even if we just take the event at face value—a bunch of beautiful, artistically staggering cars looking all dope—that’s enough. Long live low ’n’ slow and long live Lowrider Day! (ADV)

Lowrider Day on the Plaza: Noon-4 pm Saturday, June 17. Santa Fe Plaza, 100 Old Santa Fe Trail facebook.com/nmlowriderarte

Music Mania

International Make Music Day brings extra strums and drums to Santa Fe

A coterie of musicians, music lovers, organizers and hangers-on will come together in the Santa Fe Railyard on Wednesday, June 21—the longest day of the year—for Santa Fe’s version of Make Music Day, an internationally celebrated event/holiday that came to be thanks to the efforts of two particularly musically-inclined Frenchmen.

In 1982, then-Minister of Culture Jack Lang, and Director of Dance and Music for the Ministry Maurice Fleuret began to brainstorm a new national holiday that would bring music to public spaces all over their country. The event became known as the Fête de la Musique, and since its American debut in New York City as Make Music New York in 2008, has become more well known across the United States and the rest of the world.

This year in Santa Fe, the celebration will be less focused on a pre-scheduled scheduled concert series as it was in years past, and more about engaging event-goers of all ages and skill sets with interactive musical activities.

“We’re not just encouraging people to listen to music,” says project manager Francesca Jozette, herself the front woman of local band Free Range Buddhas, “but to make it.”

This year’s Make Music will provide numerous opportunities for participants to

learn how to play various instruments or to sing in groups regardless of their musical backgrounds. In addition to gifting 100 harmonicas to people interested in joining an on-the-spot lesson/session with music educator Phil Arnold, organizers will also preside over a West African drum circle, songwriting sessions and a ukulele strumalong led by experienced local musicians Akeem Ayanniyi, Lucy Barna and others. Everyone is also encouraged to bring their own instruments to improv with strangers—or to perform their very own impromptu streetside performance.

This year marks the first time the event will be concentrated in the Railyard, so attendees won’t have to travel all over town to get from one offering to another as they had in previous years. Jozette also says there will be vendors, arts and crafts, handcrafted flutes, henna and more, as well as food carts for filling your stomach in-between activities. Even if you’re new to music, Jozette says, Make Music Day is all about inclusivity.

”Don’t worry,” she advises. “Just come and we will facilitate your discovery.”

(Noah Hale)

MAKE MUSIC DAY 1-8 pm Wednesday, June 21. Free Santa Fe Railyard, Market and Alcaldesa streets, makemusicday.org/santafe

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EVENTS

FREE KIDS' SING-ALONG

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BOOKS/LECTURES

A SOUL'S JOURNEY INTO INTERSPIRITUAL SPACE

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon (505) 466-7323

Author and priest Len Schreiner shares his book about Christian and Catholic spirituality.

7 pm, free

BOOK TALK WITH NED BLACKHAWK

Online sarweb.org/event/ned-blackhawk

The Western Shoshone author joins Michael F. Brown to chat about his new work, The Rediscovery of America: American Indians and the Unmaking of U.S

2-2:45 pm, free

DEAR PARK RANGER

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Author Jeff Darren Muse shares his autobiographical reflections on nature and white American manhood.

6-7 pm, free

DANCE

PLANET TAZ: A QUEER PROM

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Make some new, happier prom night memories in honor of our much-missed queer kin Shontez “Taz” Denise Morris. You know Taz would want you to dance your azz off.

8 pm, $10

Railyard Park

740 Cerrillos Road (505) 316-3596

Sarah-Jane from Queen Bee Music Association leads music games and sing-alongs for toddlers and babies.

10:30-11:15 am, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278

A trivia quiz incorporating audio and visual clues.

8-10 pm, free

HISTORY CHAT

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

Walking tour guide Christian Saiia invites locals to gather every Wednesday to discuss local history and the effects of world geo-politics on westward colonization.

Noon-2 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-25010

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, booze and clay.

7-10 pm, free

SANTA FE HISPANIC

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUSINESS AFTER HOURS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

An RSVP-required networking event hosted at rotating locations around town.

5:30 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, free

SUMMER READING CLUB

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Drop the little ones (grades 3 and under) off 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-2 pm, free

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Little ones learn about planets—and envision their own with a little creative support from themed picture books.

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.

5-6:30 pm, free

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

A rare and precious opportunity to satisfy your chile cravings in what pretty much counts as the wee hours by Santa Fe standards.

4-10 pm, free

MUSIC

BOB MAUS

Artisan Santa Fe

2601 Cerrillos Road (505) 954-4172

The local blues singer presents a lineup of Beatles tributes amid the pastels and paints.

1:30-2:30 pm, free

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

BYOB: Bring your own bassoon.

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

MARION CARRILLO

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Original folk and Americana from an Albuquerque native. Very on brand for the good old C-girl—which, by the way, is celebrating its 30th birthday this week!

4-6 pm, free

ROCK BOTTOM STRING BAND

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

High energy uptempo bluegrass, country and punk sourced out of San Marcos, Texas. Expect guitar, fiddle, vox, banjo and assorted items repurposed as instruments.

7 pm, free

SANDBOX MUSIC FESTIVAL:

ELECTRONIC MUSIC NIGHT

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

Electronic sound and accompanying video art from experimentalists Sam Genovese (visiting from San Francisco) and Jim Goetsch (a local).

7-9 pm, $18-$22

COURTESY SANTA FE 5X5, ZANE BENNETT CONTEMPORARY

Witness Johanna Mueller’s experimentation with print media in Santa Fe 5x5, on view now at Zane Bennett Contemporary.

SECOND CHANCES

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952

Country music for two-steppin'.

6 pm, free

THEE SOUL SHAKE

As Above So Below Distillery

545 Camino de la Familia (505) 916-8596

A vinyl-fueled disco party hosted by DJs Swilley and Prairiedog.

8-11 pm, free

WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOLKS

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Acoustic melodies courtesy of Mineral Hill.

6-9 pm, free

WORKSHOP

ART CHURCH

Move Studio

901 W San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503

Described as a monthly gathering place for "artists, dancers, astrologers, rowdy contemplatives and all those who love to play through the arts." Today's session focuses on the trickster twins of Gemini.

10 am-1 pm, $35-$45

THU/15

ART OPENINGS

LARGE SCALE ALEBRIJES

ARTIST MEET AND GREET

Museum of International Folk Art

706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204

Hear Alejandro Camacho

Barrera and Miriam Camancho chat about the outdoor group installation of enormous paper maché animals as the works are being set up. Let’s all hope against hope there’s no rain.

3-5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

MEDICARE INFORMATION

SESSION

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon (505) 466-7323

Bring all your burning coverage questions.

1:30 pm, free

SARA DANT: LOSING EDEN

Collected Works

Bookstore and Coffeehouse

202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226

Sarah Noss of the Santa Fe Conservation Trust joins the author to discuss Dant's new reexamination of the history of the American West.

6 pm, free

DANCE

ECSTATIC DANCE

Railyard Performance Center

1611 Paseo de Peralta

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

6:30 pm, $15

EVENTS

2023 NEXT GENERATION

WATER SUMMIT

Santa Fe Community Convention Center

201 W Marcy St. (505) 955-6590

Learn about such local topics as the state's water task force, currently available data on water conservation and plenty more aquatic issues alongside related presentations from national experts.

9 am-5 pm, free

ALL FIERCE COMEDY SHOW

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

We still have Carlos Medina's "No le Digan" stuck in our heads from four years ago when he dropped that music video in which he makes out with a puppet of himself. We’ve all been there, right?

7 pm, $10-$26

CHESS & JAZZ CLUB

No Name Cinema

2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org

Chess playing and jazz listening. All ages and skill levels welcome, free herbal tea available.

6-8 pm, free

CLEAN COMEDY Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

Expect a caricature artist, jugglers and family appropriate stand-up acts in the most bucolic of venues.

6-8 pm, $10

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery

7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1 (505) 467-8892

Learn how whiskey is made— from grain to glass—then check out the barrel aging room before finishing up by sampling the results. Reservations required.

5 pm, $20

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952

Whatever you do, don't call it trivia. These folks hate that.

7 pm, free

SEEDS & SPROUTS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Young'uns are invited to join the museum in its first-ever tower garden harvest. We can only imagine many tiny footstools will be involved.

10:30 am, free

VÁMONOS: FIND A NEW PATH

Villa Linda Park Wagon Wheel Road (505) 989-7019

Stroll the Arroyo Chamiso trail all the way down to the Genoveva Chavez Community Center.

5:30 pm, free

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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 decision-making, every Thursday night offers the opportunity to sample four different 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

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana and honky-tonk.

4-6 pm, free

BLAIR AND PHIL Cerrillos Station

15B 1st St., Cerrillos (505) 474-4917

Americana music and fresh Farmers Market produce.

4-6 pm, free

BOHEMIACS!

HILARY AND RON

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road (505) 428-0090

European-inspired violin and accordion melodies.

5 pm, free

DAVID GEIST

Osteria D'Assisi

58 S Federal Place (505) 986-5858

Cabaret renditions of Broadway, pop and original tunes.

7-10 pm, $5

HALF BROKE HORSES

Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge

1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817

Two-step your way to honkytonk heaven.

7-10 pm, free

LAMBY

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Delicate folk pop.

7 pm, free

ON AND ON: JOSÉ JAMES

SINGS BADU

Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

The jazz singer pays homage to the one and only Erykah Badu.

7:30 pm, $25-$49

PAT MALONE

TerraCotta Wine Bistro

304 Johnson St., (505) 989-1166

Solo acoustic guitar.

6-8 pm, free

TAYLOR HUNNICUTT

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road

(505) 982-1931

American roots.

8-10 pm, free

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TIM LIN

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

The New York City-based jazz saxophonist celebrates the release of his new CD.

6 pm, $25-$30

MOE.

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Jam rock with longevity. Seriously, they first formed the band in 1989.

8 pm, $40-$55

THEATER

KING LEAR

La Tienda at Eldorado

7 Caliente Road

upstartcrowsofsantafe.org

Two casts—one entirely made up of youth players from the Upstart Crows troupe, the other a mix of youth and adult performers—present a memorial staging of the classic Shakespeare tragedy.

6:30 pm, $10-$20

KINKY BOOTS

Santa Fe High School

2100 Yucca St., trimsantafe.org

The Cyndi Lauper/Harvey Fierstein-penned, Tony-winning musical struts into town for Pride with 2.5 feet of irresistible, tubular sex.

7-9:30 pm, $30-$40

MORNING SUN

New Mexico Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

Robert Benedetti and Kent Kirkpatrick co-direct Simon Stephens' (of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime) intimate tale. (See A&C, page 33)

7:30 pm, $15-$35

WHERE DID WE SIT ON THE BUS?

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

Satya Jnani Chavez stars in Brian Quijada's autobiographical solo show exploring a Latina child's titular question from an early lesson on Rosa Parks.

7:30-9 pm, $5-$75

WORKSHOP ARTS ALIVE!

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636

Paint with artist Peterson Yazzie (Diné). Canvases provided!

10 am-2 pm, free

CLARIFYING MEDITATIVE WORK

Online

bit.ly/3K8d586 (505) 281-0684

Forty minutes of group meditation, followed by introductions and a period of gentle discussion of the assumptions and patterns that affect our lives.

7-8:30 pm, free

HATHA YOGA

The Spa at 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

LEARN 3D PRINTING

Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

Get certified in 3D printing—a single skill which opens a whole universe of object creation.

10 am-2 pm, $85

FRI/16

ART OPENINGS

ARTIST TALK AND OPENING RECEPTION

Antieau Gallery

130 Lincoln Ave., Ste. F (505) 983-9529

Textile artist Chris RobertsAntieau discusses her new limited series work, Saving The Books II, followed by live music and snacks.

4-7 pm, free

FERNANDO ANDRADE: WE THE PEOPLE (OPENING)

Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700

Graphite images probing gun violence.

5-8 pm, free

FLOWERS, SPRING AND COFFEETIME

Starbucks Coffee

106 San Francisco St. (505) 992-2858

Local artist Martha Griego shares still lifes of flowers.

3-6 pm, free

GIL ROCHA: 2ND PLACE (OPENING)

Gerald Peters Contemporary

1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700

Multimedia explorations of Chicano borderlands culture.

5-8 pm, free

JIVAN LEE: HONDO

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Textured Southwestern landscapes.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri;

10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

TOM BIRKNER: NIGHT AND DAY ON MAIN (OPENING)

Gerald Peters Contemporary

1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700

Oil portraits of small-town Main Street life.

5-8 pm, free

VIVIAN WANG: A GUADALUPE STREET FEATURE (OPENING)

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Figurative clay and glass sculptures influenced by Chinese and Japanese ceramic traditions.

5-7 pm, free

WILLIAM ROTSAERT (OPENING)

art is gallery santa fe

419 Canyon Road (505) 629-2332

Colorful figurative paintings and prints.

5-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

BILINGUAL STORY TIME

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5100

The museum launches its new bilingual series with a reading of Rudolfo Anaya's How Chile Came to New Mexico.

6 pm, free

LUNCHEON WITH JONATHAN WARD

Hotel Santa Fe

1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200

Hear what the Atlas Organization founder and author of The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China has to say while you nosh.

11:30 am, $45-$55

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SPRING SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

Director Antonio Granjero's flamenco company performs alongside vocalist and guitarist Juan Jose Alba. Come early for pre-show dinner and drinks.

7:30 pm, $25-$45

EVENTS

10TH ANNIVERSARY

RECEPTION ON MUSEUM HILL

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

A celebratory reception with live music, themed cocktails and the like. Category is: “Growing Traditions: Celebrating a Decade on Museum Hill.”

4-7 pm, $125-$150

2023 NEXT GENERATION

WATER SUMMIT

Santa Fe Community

Convention Center

201 W Marcy St. (505) 955-6590

On the docket today are such topics as multifamily water demand calculators, blackwater reuse and more. Exciting stuff.

9 am-5 pm, free

ALL AGES CHESS

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Go checkmate that king.

3-5 pm, free

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

CRASH KARAOKE

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

We were today years old when we found out the “Crash” of the title refers to a pop-up karaoke gameshow. We gather the show involved surprise visits to random Crash locations, although it seems to have only lasted one season.

9 pm-1 am, free

CURRENTS NEW MEDIA

FESTIVAL OPENING DAY

Santa Fe County Fairgrounds

3229 Rodeo Road currentsnewmedia.org

The solar-powered showcase of technological and artistic experimentation returns with all new VR installations, experimental videos and more. (See SFR Picks, page 19)

5-11 pm, free-$15

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery 7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1 (505) 467-8892

Take a journey with your whiskey.

5 pm, $20

FINE ART FRIDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Queen Bee Music Association brings abundant ukes and an instrument petting zoo for the kids to play with.

2-4 pm, free

GRAND RE-OPENING

Amelia White Park

981 Old Santa Fe Trail

Celebrate the newly sprucedup park with the likes of a pet promenade, pollinator talks and plenty more.

10 am-2 pm, free

KMRD EIGHT YEARS ON AIR

BALKAN BIRTHDAY BASH

KMRD: Madrid Community Radio

2870 Highway 14, Madrid (505) 471-5673

Madrid Community Radio celebrates eight years of broadcasting with a fundraiser fete featuring live music from Korvin Orkestar and Baby Weekend followed by a radio DJ dance party and raffle.

5-8 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

If your bike is currently stuck in the garage with goathead-related flat tires, don’t fear—you can always borrow a bike from the Recreation Division if you so choose.

10-11 am, $5

MAKE AND BELIEVE TIME

Rainbow Rainbow at Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Picture books and themed creative activities for parents and children to bond over in the multiverse.

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

OPEN SPACE-TIME

Rainbow Rainbow at Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

See what surprises might be in store for you to temporarily access from the Meow Wolf art supply closet.

11:30 am, free

PRIDE30 COMEDY NIGHT

Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-4414

The Santa Fe Human Rights Alliance presents its first ever Pride comedy evening—featuring Marga Gomez and Jared Goldstein and hosted by local Porter Love. (See SFR Picks, page 19) 7 pm, $40-$75

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Entre lineas: Cárcel, poesía y familias

domingo 18 de junio, 2023 | 1:00-3:00 pm

al Museum of International Folk Art en Santa Fe

Between the Lines: Prison, Poetry & Families

Sunday, June 18, 2023 | 1:00-3:00 pm

at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe ¡ENTRADA GRATUITA! FREE ADMISSION!

1:00-2:00 pm

Una reunión comunitaria con poetas

Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ronnie Ortiz, Tara Trudell, y Poeta Laureado de Santa Fe Darryl Wellington

2:00-3:00 pm

Recepción y elaboración de cuentas de papel con Tara Trudell

Se proporcionará interpretación de ASL (lengua de señas americana) durante las lecturas de poesia.

Gracias a la International Folk Art Foundation y la Museum of New Mexico Foundation por su generoso apoyo.

1:00-2:00 pm

A community gathering with poets

Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ronnie Ortiz, Tara Trudell, and Santa Fe Poet Laureate Darryl Wellington

2:00-3:00 pm

Reception and paper bead making with Tara Trudell

ASL Interpretation will be provided during the poetry readings. Thank you to the International Folk Art Foundation and the Museum of New Mexico Foundation for their generous support.

PROJECT INTERCHANGE

Santa Fe County Fairgrounds

3229 Rodeo Road, axleart.com

Friends of the Orphan Signs and Axle Contemporary join forces for a poetry dialogue occurring simultaneously in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Presented as part of Currents.

9-11 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 unique floral faves, so it's worth taking the tour more than once.

10 am, $12

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE

SHOW PRIDE OPEN MIC

Roots & Leaves Casa de Kava

301 N Guadalupe St. (720) 804-9379

With host Adam Bomb as the Criminologist, you better be ready to give yourself over to absolute pleasure. No cover, one drink minimum.

9 pm-midnight, free

SOUTH CAPITOL TOUR

Downtown Santa Fe historicsantafe.org

Oliver Horn leads an architecturally focused walking tour. Hosted by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation. Register for the starting location.

3 pm, $50-$60

SPEAKEASY EXPRESS

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Hop onboard and pretend it's prohibition times.

7 pm, $109

FILM

ALIEN DREAMTIME:

TERENCE MCKENNA 30TH

ANNIVERSARY

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave.

(505) 466-5528

Revisiting the LSD guru's 1993 multimedia performance collaboration with Ken Adams.

7 pm, $15-$40

FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon

(505) 466-7323

Expect free popcorn and juice in addition to the screening (although you'll have to call the library for the title due to licensing concerns).

7 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

SHORT FILMS BY SABINE

GRUFFAT AND BILL BROWN

(SCREENING+DISCUSSION)

No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St., nonamecinema.org

The North Carolinian experimental and doc filmmakers share seven video works dating from 1995-2020.

7:30 pm, $5-$15 suggested

THE WHISTLE (SCREENING AND CRAFT BEE)

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

A doc about underground dyke codes of 1980s Albuquerque. Plus, crafting supplies on tap!

3:30 pm, free

FOOD

DINE OUT FOR A CHANGE

Palace Prime

142 W Palace Ave. (505) 919-9935

Chow down to support Creative Santa Fe—20%  of the evening's proceeds go to the organization.

5-10 pm, free

MUSIC

AWL/SWEETLY/ ROSES FOR PARADISE

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

Experimental dream pop.

7 pm, $5

BILL PALMER

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Americana originals.

5 pm, free

BOOMROOTS

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Hip-hop, reggae and roots.

8 pm, $10

CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

Vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

HONDO COYOTE

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Feel-good country.

8 pm, free

JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Classic dance band jams.

8 pm, free

PAT MALONE

Four Seasons Resort

Rancho Encantado 198 NM-592 (505) 946-5700

Solo acoustic guitar.

7-9 pm, free

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Professional jazz jamming.

6-9 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St.

(844) 743-3759

All rails and cocktails.

7 pm, $109-$129

THE RECORD COMPANY WITH SGT. SPLENDOR

Santa Fe Railyard Water Tower

1612 Alcaldesa St. Los Angeles blues-rock, presented by Lensic360.

7 pm, free

ESSO

First Presbyterian Church

208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544

An evening of Bach and Mozart.

5:30 pm, free

THEATER

KING LEAR

La Tienda at Eldorado

7 Caliente Road upstartcrowsofsantafe.org

A memorial staging in honor of the late Itai Rosen and directed from his notes.

6:30 pm, $10-$20

KINKY BOOTS

Santa Fe High School

2100 Yucca St., trimsantafe.org

Just remember what Lola told us: Sex shouldn’t be comfy!

7-9:30 pm, $30-$40

MORNING SUN

New Mexico Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive

(505) 466-3533

Following a grandmother, mother and granddaughter living in New York City from the 1960s through the present. (See A&C, page 33)

7:30 pm, $15-$35

WHERE DID WE SIT ON THE BUS?

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

There’s nothing like a good one woman show.

7:30-9 pm, $5-$75

WORKSHOP

LEARN BRONZE CASTING

Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

Learn the 6,000-year-old craft while pouring your own three-dimensional object under the tutelage of James W. Johnson. Probably a great way to live out any childhood blacksmithing fantasies.

10 am-2 pm, $90

OPERA MAKES SENSE

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

An opportunity for children ages 3-5 to access opera through age-appropriate music and storytelling.

1-2 pm, free

SAT/17

ART OPENINGS

CLICK! CODY BROTHERS (OPENING)

Bishop's Lodge

Auberge Resorts Collection

1297 Bishops Lodge Road (888) 741-0480

Check out the analogue photographer's 10 latest works on infrared film.   5-6:30 pm, free

SOULFUL SHOTS BOOK SIGNING AND LIVE ART

Garcia Street Books

376 Garcia St., Ste. B (505) 986-0151

Featuring local author Janet Boccelli.

10 am-2 pm, free

TRANSGENDER CULTURAL FLUENCY TRAINING

Christ Lutheran Church 1701 Arroyo Chamiso (505) 983-9461

Adrien Lawyer of the Transgender Resource Center clears up misconceptions and offers strategies for allyship.

1-4 pm, free

U.F.O.S IN NEW MEXICO

Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Investigator Shane Rocha gives an alien-centric talk.  1-2:30 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SPRING SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

Castanets will be clicked.   7:30 pm, $25-$45

EVENTS

2023 NEXT GENERATION WATER SUMMIT TOURS

Santa Fe, ngws.vfairs.com

POP-UP ART SHOW

Santa Fe Painting Workshops

341 East Alameda St. (505) 490-6232

See Pam Trueblood and Andrea Cermanski's latest paintings and explore the combined studio and gallery space.

Noon-4 pm, free

THE SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

Santa Fe Railyard

1612 Alcaldesa St.

An outdoor juried art market featuring pottery, jewelry, painting, photography, furniture, textiles and more.

9 am-2 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

HONDURAS PRESENTATION

Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta (505) 992-0418

Rob Donnelly shares a slideshow documenting his travels through the country.

5 pm, free

NERVOUS SYSTEM

REGULATION FOR PAIN

MANAGEMENT

Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health

909 Early St. (505) 310-7917

Anna Gieselman explains how nervous system regulation can be used to address symptoms ranging from muscle tension to pain to poor sleep.

1-2:30 pm, free

A full day of conservation-centric site visits. The day starts at the cactus garden by Midtown Bistro, before moving to the Community College at noon and then on at 3 pm to a series of unlisted locations that will be revealed upon registration.  9 am, free

CONVIVIO SOUTHSIDE 2023 Ortiz Middle School 4164 S Meadows Road

Expect everything from live mariachi music to Littleglobe short films and food trucks.  Noon-6 pm, free

CRAB & PILSNER FEST 2023

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068

Celebrate Father's Day weekend with abundant crustaceans and more than a dozen brews.  Noon-8 pm, free

CURRENTS NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL

Santa Fe County Fairgrounds 3229 Rodeo Road currentsnewmedia.org

We’ve heard there will be robots. Who doesn’t love robots, right? (See SFR Picks, Page 19) Noon-11 pm, free-$15

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery 7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1 (505) 467-8892

Go with the grain. Literally. 5 pm, $20

EL MUSEO MERCADO

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591

Art and antiques. 9 am-4 pm, free

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STRATA GALLERY

GIGGYAP: PRIDE30 KICK-OFF

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

It ain't just the 30th year of HRA's Santa Fe Pride—it's also Cowgirl's dirty 30, and the groups are teaming up to celebrate. Seems like an ideal place for assless chaps if you've got 'em.

Noon-9 pm, free

KARAOKE WITH CAKE

Cake’s Cafe

227 Galisteo St., (505) 303-4880

More Crash Karaoke—plus pastries! (See Food, page 31)

7-11 pm, free

LA TIENDA FLEA

La Tienda at Eldorado

7 Caliente Road

To picture the size of this market, imagine all the yard sales from the weekend combined under one roof.

8 am, free

LECTURE, LUNCH AND TOUR WITH JAN WILLEM-JANSENS

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

The garden's final anniversary event features a box lunch, lecture on piñon-juniper woodlands and sneak peek at the newest garden area.

11 am-1:30 pm, $32-$40

LET'S GO BIRDING

TOGETHER

Randall Davey Audubon Center

1800 Upper Canyon Road (505) 983-4609

While our personal queer circle doesn't include many folks who are up at 8 am on a Saturday, we're sure there are plenty who'll flock to this.

8-9:30 am, free

LOWRIDER DAY

Santa Fe Plaza

100 Old Santa Fe Trail

A car and craft show featuring our state's most iconic vehicles, live music and plenty more summertime Santa Fe goodness. (See SFR Picks, page 19) Noon-4 pm, free

ONE YEAR CELEBRATION

art is gallery santa fe 419 Canyon Road, (505) 629-2332

The gallery honors its birthday with live music from the Shady Mountain String Band.

11 am-2 pm, free

OPEN SPACE-TIME

Rainbow Rainbow at Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Enjoy raiding that (probably) neon art supply closet.

11:30 am, free

PARK 'N' PRINT

Bee's Knees Print Studio

1570 Pacheco St., Ste. D5 (505) 570-0423

The print studio marks its first anniversary with live printing and a car show.

1-6 pm, free

PSYCHEDELIC INTEGRATION

CIRCLE

Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health

909 Early St., (505) 310-7917

Gina Devani is here to confidentially answer questions about any psychedelic experiences for which you might be preparing.

11:30 am-12:30 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Plenty of florals to stop and smell beyond the obligatory roses.

10 am, $12

SAND PLAY SATURDAY

Railyard Park

740 Cerrillos Road (505) 316-3596

Kids (elementary school age and under) expand cognition through sand, water, toys and more.

10 am-noon, free

SAVE THE HUMANS!

Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society

100 Caja del Rio Road

(505) 983-4309

Help out fellow humans while checking out furry friends.

11 am-4 pm, free

SCIENCE SATURDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Guest scientists Xiaobai Li and Zhe Mei lead an experiment.

2-4 pm, free

THE @WHERESLUPITA

WALKING TOUR

Warehouse 21

1614 Paseo de Peralta (505) 303-0892

Meet at the Guadalupe mural for a Lupe-centric tour of downtown. You'll need reservations, but you can choose between English, Spanish and Spanglish.

9:30 am, $25-$40

THE MET LIVE IN HD:

FALSTAFF

Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

Verdi's take on the Shakespeare comedy arrives after being rescheduled from May.

11 am, $22

THE MYSTO REALLY BIG MAGIC SHOW

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Stage magic and sleight of hand.

7 pm, $20-$30

THE STARGAZER Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Travel to the Galisteo Basin for ultimate low-light onboard stargazing with pro guides.

9 pm, $139

FILM

SATURDAY MORNING

CARTOONS

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Nostalgic cartoons and cereal all day. Pajamas encouraged.

11 am-7 pm, free

THE WHISTLE (SCREENING AND Q&A)

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

No crafting this time, but director StormMiguel Flores will be zooming in to discuss his work.  Noon, free

FOOD

CLICK! CODY BROTHERS + CHEF PABLO PEÑALOSA

Bishop's Lodge

1297 Bishops Lodge Road (888) 741-0480

A multi-course culinary experience to complement the new photography exhibit.

6:30-9:30 pm, $145

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

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

4-10 pm, free

NEW MEXICO ALE TRAIL

Sky Railway 410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Enjoy local brewery samples and a complimentary beer onboard.

1:30 pm, $99

PLANTITA POP UP

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

Expect vegan orange chocolate cayenne cake, zucchini cookies, bagels and more.

9 am-1 pm, free

SANTA FE FARMERS

SATURDAY MARKET

Farmers Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

One of the oldest, largest and most successful such markets in the country.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC

BOB MAUS Inn & Spa at Loretto

211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-5531

Piano and voice takes on blues and soul classics.

6-9 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

King Charles and occasional guests serenade diners with vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

DJANGO FESTIVAL

ALL STARS

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

Paying tribute to jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.

5 pm, $30

ELIANA O'BRIEN

Paxton's Taproom 109 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-1290

Jazz standards and originals.

7-9 pm, free

FREDDIE SCHWARTZ

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road (505) 428-0090

Classic rock from a New Orleans native.

2-5 pm, free

HOGAN AND MOSS

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

Scorch folk.

8 pm, free

PAPADOSIO AND DIRTWIRE

Santa Fe Brewing Company

37 Fire Place, (505) 557-6182

Prog rock, livetronica, jazz and jam. Presented by Meow Wolf and Lensic 360.

6 pm, $30-$33

PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN

La Boca (Taberna Location)

125 Lincoln Ave., (505) 988-7102

Acoustic guitar and bass.

7 pm, free

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

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

Jazz on jazz on jazz. Jazz cubed.

6-9 pm, free

RON ROUGEAU

Pink Adobe 406 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-7712

'60s and '70s acoustic tunes.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

TO KEEP THE WOLVES AWAY

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

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

A lineup of harder fare also featuring Terra Damnata, Alium and dirtwyrm.

7:30 pm, $12

WHIPPED CREAM

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Canadian Dj and producer.

10 pm, $25

THEATER

KING LEAR

La Tienda at Eldorado

7 Caliente Road

upstartcrowsofsantafe.org

For the Shakespeare nerds among you, this presentation uses the 1623 first Folio.

6:30 pm, $10-$20

KINKY BOOTS

Santa Fe High School

2100 Yucca St., trimsantafe.org

Look to the heel, young man. The sex is in the heel.

7-9:30 pm, $30-$40

MORNING SUN

New Mexico Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

Interweaving the lives of three generations of New York ladies.

(See A&C, page 33)

7:30 pm, $15-$35

WHERE DID WE SIT ON THE BUS?

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

A potent reminder that American racism isn’t just black-and-white.  2 pm, 7:30 pm, $5-$75

WORKSHOP

4-HOUR INTRODUCTORY

WORKSHOP

Santa Fe Girls' School

310 W. Zia Road

(505) 820-3188

An opportunity for folks 13 and up to learn basic techniques for verbal and physical de-escalation, presented by Resolve. Free to victims of crime.

9 am-1 pm, $50-$75

POETRY WORKSHOP SERIES

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Hone your word craft with Darryl Lorenzo Wellington in his final month as the city's poet laureate.

11 am, free

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

SUN/18

ART OPENINGS

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

EVENTS

BETWEEN THE LINES:

PRISON, POETRY & FAMILIES

Museum of International Folk Art

706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204

Hear local poets read aloud, then join a paper bead making workshop.

1-3 pm, free

BEYOND THE STIGMA: A UNIQUE STAGE HYPNOSIS EXPERIENCE

Santa Fe Community Yoga Center

826 Camino de Monte Rey

(505) 820-9363

Trans hypnotist Aza Rose shares an experience designed to break down assumptions around both hypnosis and genderqueer experiences. Dope!

5 pm, $30

BIRD WALK

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

The early human spots the birds.

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

CRAB & PILSNER FEST 2023

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

So many crack-able items on this lineup.

Noon-8 pm, free

CURRENTS NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL

Santa Fe County Fairgrounds

3229 Rodeo Road

currentsnewmedia.org

See the bleeding edge of technological art. (See SFR Picks, Page 19)

Noon-7 pm, free-$15

EL MUSEO MERCADO

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe

555 Camino de la Familia

(505) 992-0591

Art and antiques.

10 am-4 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery

112 W San Francisco St.

(505) 983-0134

Trivia promising to range "from Hungary to The Hunger Games."

7-9 pm, free

THE CALENDAR

JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION

Santa Fe Plaza

100 Old Santa Fe Trail

Featuring headliner Sister Nancy (the world’s first female dancehall DJ!), vendors, workshops, poets, speakers and much more.

3-9 pm, free

MARGARITA RAIL

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Tequila and live tunes.

2 pm, $99

OPEN MIC JAZZ

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Join High City Jazz Quartet onstage.

5-7 pm, free

POETRY READING

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Local poets from the Northern New Mexico Long Poem Study Group share their own work and excerpts from the odes of their favorite wordsmiths across history.

5 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

We don’t have long before monsoons hit, so take advantage of these dry afternoons.

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

SUNDAY GET DOWN

DRAG BRUNCH

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

I mean, it's Pride month. Do we really need to tell you that you should take this excuse to go drink some mimosas and tip some drag queens?  Noon, $20-$50

MUSIC

'SAL GOOD SUNDAYS

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Close out your weekend on the porch with DJs Dmonic and Dynamite Sol.

4-9 pm, free

CLARK LIBBEY DUO

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Straight up country.  1 pm, free

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse

414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Piano plinking in the President’s Room.

6 pm, free

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Santa Fe-based arts mega-corporation

Meow Wolf has announced that employees throughout its permainstallations in New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Texas have completed training that make its various locations Certified Autism Centers. The accreditation comes from the International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards and aims to increase accessibility across the board in addition to the ongoing sensory sensitive days already on offer. We spoke with VP of Operations Development and Exhibition Engineering Brian Loo—who kickstarted the accessibility initiative alongside Assistant Manager of Operations Development Megan Sada—to learn more about what that means. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. (Alex De Vore)

This will probably sound like an obvious question, but why is it so important for Meow Wolf locations to become Certified Autism Centers?

We are excited to become Certified Autism Centers because we truly believe art and creativity should be accessible to all, and creating an inclusive experience makes it better for everyone. It’s just one of the areas we looked at where we’re trying to make sure we’re accessible to all within the disability community, and this is just one way we could help this particular community…feel more prepared to experience what Meow Wolf has to offer.

What are some examples of how the new training will help with accessibility for people who land across the spectrum?

We understand all of this is a spectrum, and a lot of what we worked on was to train and talk to all our employees about awareness for what autism is, the potential needs for that community, so if there is an incident at any of our locations, our guest service teams can provide the best resources to the people who need it. Part of that includes decompression zones. We’re in the process of developing a sensory guide, making a more detailed

version with IBCCES. One of the things we learned is our community wants to pre-plan their visits, and we want to make sure they have a lot of opportunities to do that, and to help them in understanding as much as we can what their experience will be like.

We trained all our employees at our exhibitions. So currently in Santa Fe, Las Vegas and Denver—and we’re in the process of opening our Fort Worth location, which we call Grapevine—all of those employees, as part of their onboarding, will go through that training. So, from the guest services team who take tickets, to maintenance, custodial, we wanted to train our employees who may interact with guests during their day-to-day tasks. Creativity can come for anywhere, so whether you’re in front of guests on a daily basis or in the [admin offices], they can all come up with creative solutions that can better help.

Can we assume these practices and others will evolve over time? Training, I’d assume, will become an ongoing thing?

Most definitely. I think it’s every two years we’ll provide a new training class and partner with IBCCES to do it again as a refresher course on the latest trends, any additional learnings IBCCES has identified. And of course as we’re going through this we’re looking for different... experiences for the community. What are the things we can pivot or highlight?

All of our locations are working on a big accessibility program, too. When we were getting ready to open Denver, we wanted to focus on different communities, and part of that is that we have an audio description tour we provide once a month for blind and low-vision guests. It’s very detailed in story and description of visual elements, and we partnered very closely with people from the community to pilot test and write that. We’ve partnered with other organizations to understand their programs—what works well and what hasn’t; so one thing we offer at all our locations is a sensory bag with various items based on our guests’ needs, like noise reduction headphones if it’s too loud, sunglasses if something is too bright; and fidget spinners and some kind of decompression space to go if there’s over-stimulation.

This is just one step in our journey, and we are definitely excited for this achievement and continuously looking for how to make a better experience for everyone. What we’re really focusing on is that all our guests feel supported, and to empower them to explore our exhibitions, but also to be creative and enjoy the art regardless of their abilities.

With Meow Wolf’s Brian Loo

SHAYLA BLATCHFORD

JAZZ BRUNCH

Bishop's Lodge

1297 Bishops Lodge Road

(888) 741-0480

The Pat Malone Trio accompanies your meal.

11:30 am-2:30 pm, free

JOE WEST AND FRIENDS

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Melodic singer-songwriter.

12-3 pm, free

MINERAL HILL

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Gothic Americana.

3 pm, free

SUNDAY SWING

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Hop and bop to the music of the High Desert Trio.

1-4 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway 410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

All rails and cocktails.

7 pm, $109-$129

TO SHIVER THE SKY

Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

The New Mexico Gay Men's Chorus, Zia Singers and Rio Rancho Youth Chorus present the regional premiere of Christopher Tin's composition inspired by flight.

3 pm, $25-$75

THEATER

KING LEAR

La Tienda at Eldorado

7 Caliente Road upstartcrowsofsantafe.org

Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

6:30 pm, $10-$20

KINKY BOOTS

Santa Fe High School

2100 Yucca St. trimsantafe.org

If you didn’t know Harvey Fierstein’s writing is as delightful as his Mrs. Doubtfire performance, it’s time to get schooled.

3-9:30 pm, $30-$40

MORNING SUN (WITH TALKBACK)

New Mexico Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

Stick around afterwards to hear the creatives chat about their processes. (See A&C, page 33)

2 pm, $15-$35

WORKSHOP

ARTS ALIVE!

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Four hours of mud-centric crafts.

10 am-2 pm, free

BELLYREENA BELLY DANCE

Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 670-4386

Classic and fusion techniques.

1-2 pm, $15

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/19

BOOKS/LECTURES

JASON ‘JAY’ SHAPIRO

Hotel Santa Fe

1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200

The anthropologist chats about Arroyo Hondo Pueblo. Presented by Southwest Seminars.

6 pm, $20

TRUTH-TELLING IN AN AGE OF MISINFORMATION

Collected Works

Bookstore and Coffeehouse

202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226

The first in a series of discussions between journalists Rick Rodriguez and Sara Solovitch about the current state of their profession. Presented by Searchlight New Mexico and Collected Works.

6 pm, free

EVENTS

CURRENTS NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL

Santa Fe County Fairgrounds

3229 Rodeo Road

currentsnewmedia.org

Modular synths, techonological sensory experiences and more.

(See SFR Picks, Page 19)

Noon-7 pm, free-$15

FREE KIDS' SINGALONG

Queen Bee Music Association

1596 Pacheco St., (505) 278-0012

Music games for growing ears.

10:30-11:15 am, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Gain a new, two-wheeled perspective on the city.

10-11 am, $5

OPEN MIC WITH CAKE

Cake’s Cafe

227 Galisteo St., (505) 303-4880

All mediums welcome.

5:30-8 pm, free

FILM

VIDEO LIBRARY CLUB

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Lisa from Video Library screens a film from her shelves—ranging from obscure cult flicks to blockbuster classics.

6:30 pm, free

MUSIC

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse

414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Ivory tickling.

6 pm, free

DR. HALL

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Rock, blues and Americana.

4-6 pm, free

QUEER NIGHT

La Reina, El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

We’d love a queer bar, but we’ll take a queer night!

5-11 pm, free

WORKSHOP

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Crack open those blocked chakras.

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

We know you're at least curious about that unicycle.

6:30-8 pm, $18-$22

TUE/20

ART OPENINGS

SHELBY SHADWELL: VISCERAL

Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road, (505) 780-5403

Large charcoal and pastel images of piled guts, space blankets and other unusual textures.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

MAGNIFICENT REBELS WITH ANDREA WULF

Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

The author discusses her research into the lives of the first Romantics. Presented by the Santa Fe Institute.

7:30 pm, free

EVENTS

CURRENTS NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL

Santa Fe County Fairgrounds

3229 Rodeo Road currentsnewmedia.org

You never know what technological wonders each new day of the festival may bring. (See SFR Picks, Page 19) Noon-7 pm, free-$15

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Boese Brothers Brewpub

145 Central Park Square, Los Alamos (505) 500-8325

A British-style pub quiz.

8-10 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Santa Fe Brewing Company

35 Fire Place, (505) 424-3333

Don't call it trivia.

7 pm, free

JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

Expect speeches from the NM Black Chamber of Commerce, poetry readings from Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, book giveaways, snack opportunities and plenty more.

1-3 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

332 Read St.

Enjoy communal breakfast in the Market Pavilion, discussions of the institute's work and a guided tour of the market. Register in advance.

9 am, free

SINGLES MIXER OPEN MIC & MOVIE NIGHT

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Red)

1366 Cerillos Road, (505) 428-0996

You'll have to show up yourself to find out what rom-com is screening after everyone bonds over previous dating disasters.

6:30-9 pm, free

FILM

PRIDE MOVIE NIGHT: A RUN FOR MORE (SCREENING AND Q&A)

Violet Crown Cinema

1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678

The Santa Fe Human Rights Alliance shares the doc about Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe—Texas' first openly trans elected official—followed by a brief conversation with the director.

6 pm, $15

FOOD

SANTA FE FARMERS TUESDAY

MARKET

Farmers Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Produce to kale for.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC

CARDIEL + LADRONES

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

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

Skaterock and fuzz punk.  7 pm, $10

GARY GORENCE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Storytelling folk.  4 pm, free

THEATER

PLANETARY GONG BATH +

OPTIONAL MICRODOSE

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

Calm down, everyone—the microdose-able in question is THC. Led by Gina Devani. 4-5:30 pm, $25

WORKSHOP

ARTS ALIVE!

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

710 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1269

Solstice-themed craft projects.  10 am-2 pm, free

HATHA YOGA

The Spa at Four Seasons Rancho Encantado 198 NM-592 (505) 946-5700

Breath-centric stretching.  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

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The Honeymoon’s Over

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

After roughly five years in business in Santa Fe, Honeymoon Brewery’s Ayla Bystrom-Williams tells SFR the taproom at the Solana Center, as well as the business’s hard kombucha brewing operations, will close effective immediately.

The news comes mere months after the locally founded company belonging to Bystrom-Williams and longtime life/business partner James Hill inked a deal with the Admiral Beverage distributors that promised to put Honeymoon’s proprietary drinks in regional or even national retail markets. Bystrom-Williams says there’s still hope in that department, as she and Hill have been speaking with a number of contract brewing outfits around the country in recent months that could potentially brew Honeymoon product and sell it in Santa Fe and beyond.

“A couple months ago, anticipating our deal with Admiral would go well—which it has—we had to find ways to make more product,” Bystrom-Williams explains. “We started talking to these companies, but we’ll...have to see. The taproom and onsite brewing are done for good, and we hope people will still be able to get our products, it might just take a couple months to make that happen.”

Honeymoon as a brand concept flared into existence following Bystrom-Williams’ and Hill’s participation in the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s New Mexico Small Business Technical Assistance Program circa 2014. They also took part in the SFid business accelerator program through Albuquerque’s ABQid accelerator, as well as the Miller Lite Tap The Future Business Plan Competition. That last one netted the couple $200,000 for their business, allowing them the time to create the Honeymoon products we know today. The taproom opened in 2018.

In the now, Bystrom-Williams says Honeymoon had already shipped out a

good chunk of product before announcing the closure, meaning fans might still be able to find some in local stores. As for the events aspect of the taproom, BystromWilliams says she’s heartbroken.

“We’re kind of the venue you play when you want to make it to the other venue,” she says. “I’m devastated no one will have that anymore, but it has only been two hours since we told our landlords and someone apparently already wants that space, so maybe they’ll do something like it.”

Local MC and DJ Raashan Ahmad, for example, kicked off his popular Love & Happiness dance night series at Honeymoon, and it has since become a full-blown phenomenon attended by hundreds at venues like Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery. Longtime Honeymoon bartender Kyle Perkins also reportedly had plans in the works for new live music events.

But, according to Bystrom-Williams, a combination of long hours and staffing shortages led to extreme exhaustion on her part. Honeymoon won’t close with her and Hill in serious debt, she adds, but money had become a concern “in the grand scheme of things.”

“We don’t owe people money the way we did during COVID, but the problem is that with a company trying to grow we just can’t continue the path of always owing money and barely being able to buy ingredients—I don’t know how many times I can do the dance,” Bystrom-Williams tells SFR of running the taproom and brewing operations. “Stepping away from this comes off as a failure, but we’re embracing it as a super-positive thing: We made a great product, built a great brand. This is a healthy decision. You keep telling everyone you’ve got it, you’ve got it—until you don’t got it. Not talking about it hurts you, but we feel really loved. We feel sad because there’s still so much love coming in.”

BELOW: Sorry—they’re closed. Following five years of serving up hard kombucha, Santa Fe’s Honeymoon Brewery has called it quits. ABOVE: Ayla Bystrom-Williams tells SFR that “We feel sad because there’s still so much love coming in.”

ALEX DE VORE

Commercial distribution might still be a go, but Honeymoon Brewery’s taproom and brewing operations are already gone

COURTESY AYLA BYSTROM-WILLIAMS

Down on the Corner

good for anything, it was in letting restaurants give us cool outdoor eating options for nicer weather months, and when you find a day that isn’t too warm to take to the streets and sip coffee from Italian brand Lavazza ($2.60) with a pal—well, you just go ahead and do that.

As I said, Cake’s serves breakfast all day, a net gain for those of us who tarry beyond the sometimes arbitrary 11 am cutoff found at many other restaurants (for small kitchens it only makes sense to switch to a lunch menu midday, obviously. I’m just saying it can be disappointing). As the workers told us about upcoming open mic and karaoke night events (check this week’s calendar on page 18), we perused the menu, a more varied lineup than you might expect from a small-ish operation staffed by only two people, at least when we visited. For those who’ve been asking me regularly where to get one, Cake’s has a Monte Cristo sandwich ($12.90); the kitchen serves 8-inch pizzas, too ($16.50) with a gluten-free option (add $3.25) and a few salads ($11.70-$15) with available salmon, turkey or chicken ($3.50). Crumbacher even has numerous vegan options on offer, though the oatmeal ($6.30) and French toast ($9.90) sounded the best among them.

Cake’s Café has a new-ish location, a new lease on life and a damn fine breakfast burrito

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Not to sound too “in my day,” but the driving and parking situation in downtown Santa Fe has become untenable in summer. There wasn’t even a market or event going down last weekend when a friend and I set out in search of brunch, and still we found ourselves trapped in a circuitous nightmare punctuated by folks who just wandered into the street hoping for the best. In the end it took 25 minutes to find a spot that wasn’t super-near our destination, but when you’re dreaming of French toast and breakfast burritos from a place you’ve never been before, I guess you suck it up.

Our goal was Cake’s Café (formerly Cake’s Corner Café), a locally owned spot from up-and-coming restaurateur Haley Crumbacher that flared into existence

a few years back with, I’ve been told, a knack for a solid cup of coffee and familiar but well-made brunch and lunch menus. Full disclosure? Someone I know turned out to be the manager when we popped by, but readers can rest assured that if she or anyone else over there had blown it, I’d say so. They did not, however, and I’m very much on team Cake’s Café now. Despite our rocky travels, we found a charming little local’s oasis smack-dab in the middle of downtown, and it might actually be worth it to fend off vacation-addled tourists for a place that serves breakfast all day.

Crumbacher’s spot used to be over at the corner of Alameda Street and Old Santa Fe Trail, but it now inhabits the space on Galisteo Street that formerly housed Trattoria a Mano, an Italian joint people reportedly loved because its kitchen boasted handmade pasta (thus the name). With Crumbacher and company taking over, the space feels more funky and upbeat now, like a mix between a coffeehouse and breakfast nook with a smattering of tables just outside the door that come with the added bonus of making one feel almost European. If COVID was

We ordered the latter as well as a breakfast burrito each, with bacon ($10), then snatched up a street table to watch the clouds float by and the people walk in front of moving cars. The service came fast, with our burritos arriving just a few minutes before the French toast. I must admit, I was at first vexed by receiving a breakfast burrito that didn’t have potatoes, but you can consider me a convert moving forward. In their place I discovered grilled red and green bell peppers that not only added a satisfying little snap, but added a brighter flavor than potatoes usually do. The green chile within was having a good day, too— not overly spicy, but plenty flavorful—and the only way to describe the egg ratio is by calling it generous. Its exterior showed the unmistakable grill marks from a panini press, and the cheese was melted just right.

Counting our French toast as a dessert, I loved the plating choice: the dish came sliced and arranged to look like a heart (and our server said, “I brought you

these with love!”). The strawberries, blueberries and sliced apple tasted fresh and just about perfectly ripened, and Cake’s take on French toast was thinner than the Texas toast-sized mega-meals I’ve found elsewhere—which is a change of pace not likely to make diners feel bloated afterward—or make the trek back to the car feel torturous. The vanilla flavor was subtle enough that the fruit became the sweetest part of the dish, and whereas scarfing burritos and French toast might have been too much, we mostly felt like we got our money’s worth.

Cake’s could easily become a hangout spot for Santa Feans who remember a time when downtown felt like locals mattered. With restaurant/bar Boxcar opening nearby later this month and other stalwart businesses like The Matador and Evangelo’s nearby, it seems plausible. Ohmygod—do I have ennui?

Heart-shaped French toast is cute! RIGHT: No potatoes in the breakfast burrito? No problem!

Good Morning

New Mexico Actors Lab tackles Simon Stephens’ Morning Sun

As Charley, Mansini (last seen in Stephens’ Heisenberg at NMAL in 2017) impresses, particularly as the character moves into young adulthood and beyond. An early sequence featuring the actors playing young school children is a difficult ask of an audience watching adults, and it doesn’t entirely land. But Mansini skillfully moves past that challenge to discover a woman whose challenges, hopes and dreams are somehow both rooted in New York City-specific experiences, yet fully universal.

The notable performances don’t stop there. NMAL mainstay Lederer portrays several characters, including more than one romantic interest of Charley’s, as well as her mother, Claudette. Lederer brings both gravitas and nuance to each of her characters and masterfully employs subtle shifts in physicality to demonstrate transitions between them. Rios y Valles (last seen in God of Carnage from NMAL’s 2022 season) also contends with multiple roles, including the charismatic delight Tessa, Charley’s daughter conceived from a one night stand. The chemistry between Mansini, Lederer and Rios y Valles resonates throughout the show, whichever role each inhabits, and particularly so when the text allows space for moments of palpable connection.

BY ZOE BURKE author@sfreporter.com

New Mexico Actors Lab continues its 2023 season with a lovely, intimate production of the 2021 off-Broadway play Morning Sun. The three-woman show was originally commissioned by the Manhattan Theatre Club and written by Simon Stephens (most famous for the plays Heisenberg and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime) and maintains a deceptively simple narrative—the story, from birth to death, of a woman in New York City named Charlotte “Charley” McBride.

Here, local veteran actor Debrianna Mansini takes on the Charley role with costars Suzanne Lederer and Vanessa Rios y Valles fleshing out the multiple significant figures in her life. Morning Sun sprawls across decades, leading Charley through the significant events of the 20th and 21st centuries—including Beatlemania, John Lennon’s 1980 murder, the AIDS epidemic and 9/11, among others. Against such backdrops, Charley’s own existence is portrayed as relatively small. Yet Stephens’ work is beautiful in its depiction of how even the most seemingly insignificant person can make an indelible impact on

the lives of those who love them.

Morning Sun takes its name from the 1952 Edward Hopper painting, which features a woman (modeled after Hopper’s wife, Jo) seated on a bed, lost in thought as she stares out the window at a cityscape, drinking in the warmth and light. The painting itself does have significance within the play by contributing to the origin of Charley’s relationship with a security guard at a museum, possibly the Whitney. The actual finalized painting lives fulltime at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, but the Whitney does house some of Hopper’s early studies for the piece, and a play with such stylized storytelling can be forgiven for artistic liberties, after all.

Back in Santa Fe, Morning Sun finds New Mexico Actors Lab Managing Director Robert Benedetti sharing directing duties with stalwart local theater pro Kent Kirkpatrick, who himself was seen onstage at NMAL just two seasons ago in a production of The Cradle Will Rock To address the potential elephant in the room, it’s true that a play so thoroughly about women might not be an intuitive directorial fit for two men (even if it were also written by a man), but Benedetti and

Kirkpatrick’s collaboration proves effectively and sensitively directed. They very much let their three women performers shine alongside interwoven elements of honesty and authenticity, and there is no cause for concern.

Additionally, Benedetti and Kirkpatrick have altered the NMAL space with seating in the round. This choice allows for an engaging, immersive feeling and staging that lets the actors truly use the space. It also means there’s not a bad seat in the house. The close-up nature gives the audience motivation to lean in for moments of intimacy or even combat. You’ll want to be close to fully engage with this level of accessible storytelling, because the story and words become the main focus. Costuming amounts to basic contemporary black clothing, for example, and the various set pieces embrace minimalism through the use of rehearsal cubes (quite literally wooden cubes). By so effectively placing their cast in such sparse environs, Benedetti and Kirkpatrick contribute to the suspension of disbelief required to examine a life in so short a time, particularly through the use of wide ranging roles and meta-theatrical moments.

Lighting and sound design from Skip Rapoport and Benedetti respectively prove immensely effective as well, and particularly so given the minimalist nature of Morning Sun’s staging. This is how we sense shifts in time and place throughout the production, and when a script asks that the set is “defined more by light and sound than by objects,” as Stephens’ does, it becomes as vital as the actors onstage. Luckily, Rapoport and Benedetti’s design work excels. As such, a piece of theatre like Morning Sun defies easy categorization. But New Mexico Actors Lab has shown consistently throughout the past two seasons that its artistic staff and core company of actors are more than capable of excelling in productions, both on the most complicated and simplified scales. Morning Sun, though stripped down to the plainest elements of theater, is a sometimes funny, sometimes poignant and always heartfelt production. And that is no small feat.

MORNING SUN

7:30 pm Thursday, June 15-Saturday, June 17 2 pm Sunday, June 18. $15-$35 New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 395-6576

From left, Suzanne Lederer, Debrianna Mansini and Vanessa Rios y Valles take on multiple roles in playwright Simon Stephens’ Morning Sun, the newest at New Mexico Actors Lab.

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Flamin’ Hot Review

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Despite the Los Angeles Times reporting in 2021 that Pepsico/Frito-Lay janitor-turned-exec Richard Montañez did not actually invent the enduringly popular Flamin’ Hot Cheeto snack, actor-turned-filmmaker Eva Longoria sails full steam ahead in her first feature, Flamin’ Hot, a feel-good biopic that might actually feel alright if the ultimate premise weren’t that a dude helped a mega-corporation figure out how to market to Brown folks better and thus make way more money.

Oh, it’s not that Longoria’s adaptation of Montañez’s book, Flamin’ Hot: The Incredible True Story of One Man’s Rise from Janitor to Top Executive isn’t fun enough or heartwarming enough or even sincerely funny once or twice, more like it suffers under the weight of its own inaccuracies and formulaic storytelling. One assumes a movie based on real events will take artistic license and pad the truth, that’s a given. But knowing ahead of time that the central plot point—namely, Montañez purportedly bucked convention and corporate nay-sayers by calling up then-Pepsico top boss Roger Enrico to pitch a spicy chip—never actually happened ultimately cheapens the emotional beats, leaving viewers feeling as burned as the snack on which it’s based.

In Hot, Longoria follows Montañez from clever child entrepreneur selling his mom’s burritos at his elementary school to the executive suite at the Rancho Cucamonga Frito-Lay plant in which he worked, making pit stops along the way at young parenthood, drug dealing and a complicated fatherly relationship. Oh, and he saves the chip factory and everyone’s jobs, too. Jesse Garcia (Quinceñera) plays the adult version of Montañez, a wide-eyed optimist who turns a janitor job into a learning opportunity and, along the way, teaches the ’90s corporate drones what it means to make a spicy snack, thereby tapping into the Chicano market like no mainstream company had before. Garcia narrates the film, too, and represents the best it has to offer, even if Gentefied star Annie Gonzalez does provide context and levity as Montañez’s wife, Judy. She just doesn’t have enough to work with, which often relegates her to pseudo-emotional moments before we get back to Richie eating elote while a light bulb flashes above his head.

Elsewhere, screen vets like Dennis Haysbert and Tony Shalhoub deliver lines such as, “You can do it, Richie!” Of course this film needs folks like that, but Shalhoub’s turn as Enrico feels like he was told to bring Santa Claus energy to his scenes, which makes for a certain cheesy warmth that seems unlikely for a top business guy in the ’90s—it’s weird.

If we’re counting teen hero Miles Morales as a SpiderMan across both film and video games, that brings the tally of folks who’ve donned the Marvel hero’s mask in recent years to something like six performers since Sam Raimi’s inaugural 2001 live action Tobey Maguire movie. Given Marvel’s propensity for multiversal travel, too, perhaps no property better fits the concept of infinite realities (sorry, Dr. Strange). But whereas a titanic pop culture phenomenon like Rick & Morty takes the nihilistic route by positing that an infinite number of possibilities means nothing truly matters, filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Clone High) wager that even just one good soul can effect change when ennui sets in—that everything everywhere matters a whole lot.

In Sony/Marvel’s newest animated entry, SpiderMan: Across the Spider-Verse—the sequel to 2018’s Into the Spider-Verse—our hero Miles (Shameik Moore) is still thinking about Spider-Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld) from his last outing (it’s complicated, but she’s from another dimension; they met). That adventure, however, wound up destabilizing time ’n’ space, leading to a sort of unpredictable system of portals that throw folks from any conceivable universe into other ones. 2013 video game BioShock Infinite would remind us that inter-dimensionality consists of both constants and variables—there is always a Spider-Man—though

since Miles got his powers from a radioactive spider not of his own dimension, he’s thrown things out of wack pretty much everywhere. Understand? Good!

After tangling with a villain called Spot (Jason Schwartzman) Miles learns there’s a sort of Hall o’ Spider-People in the distant future of a neighboring dimension to his, and its leaders (Oscar Isaac and Issa Rae) spend their days making things right across the multi-verse. Miles, though, isn’t invited to the HQ for every conceivable Spider-Man/Woman/Enby/Child/ Horse, and learning why proves a total bummer for the lad; he’s just not like the others and they’re all trying to bring him down!

Across the Spider-Verse somehow ups the quality of presentation from its first most excellent iteration by merging so many types of animations, frame rates and design aesthetics. The stacked streets of a hybrid Mumbai/Manhattan in one universe are particularly gorgeous, and notable as well are the ’70s/clip art accoutrements belonging to Spider-Punk (Daniel Kaluuya), a character that simultaneously lambasts and pays respect to the anarchic leanings of the genre’s roots. Moore has really settled into the Miles role, too, phasing effortlessly between the confidence of superpowers and the challenges of teen-dom. Steinfeld similarly nails her Gwen Stacy performance, as do actors in brief roles including Andy Samberg, Yuri Lowenthal and Mahershala Ali.

Thus, while the creators of Across the Spider-Verse aim squarely at kids, the adults who take them to the show or continue to live out their love affairs with comics-turned-movies, kids or no, will find lots to love. Still, we can only hear that family matters or love con-

quers all so many times before the law of diminishing returns sets in. Luckily, this one is so beautiful and fast-paced it’s often on to the next big thing before we have time to nitpick. Spidey swings, villains get bad and explosions flare in the distance—that’s pretty much all folks are looking for from movies like this.

(ADV) Violet Crown, Regal, PG, 140 min.

THE BOOGEYMAN

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- MORE CLICHES THAN YOU CAN COUNT

Director Rob Savage tackles The Boogeyman, a new horror-lite flick based on the 1973 Stephen King short story of the same name. Despite the mature themes and age of its source material, Savage’s adaptation sometimes seems like it was ripped straight out of an episode of the über-campy 90s’ Goosebumps television series—and it’s not his first attempt at horror. 2020’s Host and 2021’s Dashcam were both new additions to the then-recent subgenre known as computer screen horror. This time, though, the plot has nothing to do with screens, which reveals Savage’s weaknesses when it comes to directing a more traditional form of horror. The Boogeyman suffers from beginner’s cliches that will likely even bore the more modern audience to which he previously catered.

The story revolves around a therapist (Chris Messina, Birds of Prey) and his two daughters (Sophie Thatcher and Vivien Lyra Blair) who are still grieving after their mother’s accidental death. While the prem-

FLAMIN’ HOT Directed by Longoria

With Garcia, Gonzalez, Haysbert and Shalhoub Hulu, Disney+, PG-13, 99 min.

Even so, you’d have to be heartless to not get a little pumped for the movie version of Montañez as he shakes things up and gets those hot chips made. New Mexicans might be proud to know it was filmed here, too. Still, if you go looking into the story too deeply, those feelings dissipate easily. Whoever invented those chips, good on ‘em, maybe, just...are we really supposed to root for big business? Gross. SPIDER-MAN:

ise promises to help forge a compelling and emotional story, it actually cheapens the horror at play and fails to properly contextualize the movie’s monster—arguably the oldest in the monster pantheon. Actually, maybe it’s the monster that cheapens the emotional side of the story, but you can’t really tell what’s supposed to be more important—the scares or the parallels to trauma and grief. Audiences are expected to connect said trauma to the literal monster-in-thecloset, but Savage doesn’t make it worth our while; I stopped caring as soon as one character said, verbatim, “They call it…The Boogeyman.” Despite his sincere stab at representing the emotional fallout that occurs after experiencing the death of a loved one, Savage cannot deliver scares or thrills through his actors without making the viewer (and, frankly, the performers) feel awkward.

It’s not Messina’s or the kids’ fault, though, more like The Boogeyman is eye-rollingly lazy in its creature design, leading to a tall and borderline goofy creature with no unique physicality or features. This renders the monster instantly forgettable. As such, the only frights The Boogeyman knocks out of the audience are cheap shots; loud, drumkit-heavy jump scares more likely to piss you off than honestly surprise or alarm. Instead, it feels more like Savage steals his scares from you, just like his movie steals your money and time.

You could probably make fun of The Boogeyman with your friends, but if you were expecting an original take on an overdone monster concept, be prepared to leave the theater exhausted instead. (Noah Hale) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 98 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries-born Vincent van Gogh’s painting Potato Eaters shows five people in a dark room barely illuminated by lamplight. Seated around a small table, they use their hands to eat food they have grown themselves. Vincent wanted to convey the idea that they “dug the earth with the very hands they put into their bowls.” I don’t expect you to do anything quite so spectacularly earthy in the coming weeks, Aries, but I would love to see you get very up close and personal with nature. I’d also love to see you learn more about where the fundamental things in your life originate. Bonus points if you seek adventures to bolster your foundations and commune with your roots.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Renowned Mexican artist Diego Rivera emerged from his mother’s womb in 1886. But some observers suggest that Rivera’s soul was born in 1920: a pivotal time when he found his true calling as an artist. During a visit to Italy, as he gazed at the murals of 15th-century mural painters, “he found the inspiration for a new and revolutionary public art capable of furthering the ideals of the ongoing revolution in his native land.” (In the words of art historian Linda Downs.) I will be extra dramatic and speculate that you may have a comparable experience in the coming months, dear Taurus: a rebirth of your soul that awakens vigorous visions of what your future life can be.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Among her many jobs, my triple Gemini friend Alicia has worked as a deep-sea rescue diver, an environmental activist, a singer in a band, a dog food taster, an art teacher for kids, and a volunteer at a sleep lab researching the nature of dreams. Do I wonder if she would be wise to commit herself to one occupation? Not really. I respect her decision to honor her ever-shifting passions. But if there will ever come a time when she will experiment with a bit more stability and constancy, it may come during the next 11 months. You Geminis are scheduled to engage in deep ruminations about the undiscovered potentials of regularity, perseverance, and commitment.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As religious sects go, the Shakers are the most benign. Since their origin in the 18th century, they have had as many women as men in leadership roles. They practice pacifism, disavow consumerism, and don’t try to impose their principles on others. Their worship services feature dancing as well as singing. I’m not suggesting you become a Shaker, Cancerian, but I do hope that in the coming months, you will place a premium on associating with noble groups whose high ideals are closely aligned with your own. It’s time to build and nurture your best possible network.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): For years, Mario A. Zacchini worked at a circus as a “human cannonball.” On thousands of occasions, he was shot out of a cannon at 90 miles per hour. “Flying isn’t the hard part,” he testified. “Landing in the net is.” His work might sound dangerous, but he lived to age 87. Let’s make Mario your role model for a while, Leo. I hope he will inspire you to be both adventurous and safe, daring but prudent. I trust you will seek exhilarating fun even as you insist on getting soft landings.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of my favorite astrology teachers, Stephen Arroyo, notes, “Most people have a strong opinion about astrology, usually quite extreme, even though 95 percent have never studied it whatsoever.” Of course, astrology is not the only subject about which people spout superficial ideas based on scant research. Viral epidemiology is another example. Anyway, Virgo, I am asking you to work hard to avoid this behavior during the rest of 2023. Of all the zodiac signs, you have the greatest potential to express thoughtful ideas based on actual evidence. Be a role model for the rest of us! Show us what it means to have articulate, well-informed opinions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Meditation teacher Cheri Huber wrote a book called Be the Person You Want to Find. This would be an excellent title for your life story

during the next ten months. I hope you will soon ruminate on how to carry out such a quest. Here are two suggestions. 1. Make a list of qualities you yearn to experience in a dear ally and brainstorm about how to cultivate those qualities in yourself. 2. Name three highintegrity people you admire. Meditate on how you could be more like them in ways that are aligned with your life goals.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Now is a good time to take stock of how you have fared in the Dating and Mating Games through the years. Why? Because you are entering a new chapter of your personal Love Story. The next two years will bring rich opportunities to outgrow stale relationship patterns and derive rich benefits from novel lessons in intimacy. An excellent way to prepare is to meditate on the history of your togetherness. PS: The term “fate bait” refers to an influence that draws you toward the next turning point of your necessary destiny. Be alert for fate bait.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian actor Samuel Jackson loves the color purple. He insists on it being featured in his films, and he often wears purple outfits. In Black Snake Moan, he plays a purple Gibson guitar. In the animated movie, Turbo, he voices the role of a purple racing snail. In his Star Wars appearances, he wields a purple light saber. Now I am endorsing his obsession for your use. Why? First, it’s an excellent time to home in on exactly what you want and ask for exactly what you want. Second, now is a favorable phase to emphasize purple in your own adventures. Astrologers say purple is your ruling color. It stimulates your natural affinity for abundance, expansiveness, and openness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): People who understand the creative process say it’s often wise to stay mum about your in-progress work. You may diminish the potency of your projects if you blab about them while they’re still underway. I don’t think that’s true for all creative efforts. For example, if we collaborate with partners on an artistic project or business venture, we must communicate well with them. However, I do suspect the transformative efforts you are currently involved in will benefit from at least some secrecy for now. Cultivate the privacy necessary to usher your masterpiece to further ripeness.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Musician Frank Zappa (1940–1993) was a freaky rebel, iconoclastic weirdo, and virtuoso experimenter. Everything normal and ordinary was boring to him. He aspired to transcend all categories. And yet he refrained from taking psychedelic drugs and urged his fans to do the same. He said, “We repudiate any substances, vehicles, or procedures which might reduce the body, mind, or spirit of an individual to a state of subawareness or insensitivity.” Zappa might have added that some substances temporarily have a pleasing effect but ultimately diminish the life force. In my estimation, Aquarius, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to re-evaluate your relationship with influences that weaken the vitality of your body, mind, or spirit. It will also be a favorable period to seek new modes of lasting liberation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you are at a festival or fair where you could win a lot of money by smashing watermelons with your head, I hope you won’t do it. Same if you imagine you could impress a potential lover by eating 25 eggs in three minutes: Please don’t. Likewise, I beg you not to let yourself be manipulated or abused by anyone for any reason. These days, it’s crucial not to believe you can succeed by doing things that would hurt or demean or diminish you. For the foreseeable future, you will be wise to show what you do best and express your highest values. That’s the most effective way to get what you want.

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IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CONRAD CHURCHILL SKINNER, DECEASED. NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF CONRAD CHURCHILL SKINNER, DECEASED, AND ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO HAVE OR CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF CONRAD CHURCHILL SKINNER, DECEASED, OR IN THE MATTER BEING LITIGATED IN THE HEREINAFTER MENTIONED HEARING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the following: 1. CONRAD CHURCHILL SKINNER, Deceased, died on March 2, 2023; 2. ELLEN BERKOVITCH filed a Petition for Adjudication of Intestacy, Determination of Heirship, and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative in the above-styled and numbered matter on May 16, 2023, and a hearing on the above-referenced Petition has been set for June 28, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. at the First Judicial District Courthouse before the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid to be held remotely by Google Meet. The Court prefers counsel and parties to participate by video at https://meet.google.com/hdcwqjx- wes. If it is not possible to participate by video, you may call 1 (954)-507-7909 and enter PIN: 916 854 445#

HEARING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the following: 1. IRENE ANN ORTIZ, Deceased, died on October 25, 2022. 2. MICHAEL JOHN ORTIZ filed a Petition for Adjudication of Intestacy, Determination of Heirship, and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative in the above-styled and numbered matter on May 18, 2023, and a hearing on the above-referenced Petition has been set for July 10, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. at the First Judicial District Courthouse before the Honorable Francis J. Mathew to be held in InPerson, Third Floor, First Judicial District Court, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501. 3. Pursuant to Section 45-1-401 (A) (3), N.M.S.A., 1978, notice of the time and place of hearing on the abovereferenced Petition is hereby given to you by publication, once each week, for three consecutive weeks.

DATED this 6th day of June, 2023. /s/ Kristi A. Wareham, Esq. KRISTI A. WAREHAM, P.C. Attorney for Petitioner 300 Paseo de Peralta, Ste. 103 Santa Fe, NM 87501 Telephone: (505) 820-0698 Fax: (505) 629-1298 Email: kristiwareham@icloud.com

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3. Pursuant to Section 45-1-401 (A) (3), N.M.S.A., 1978, notice of the time and place of hearing on the above-referenced Petition is hereby given to you by publication, once each week, for three consecutive weeks. DATED this 25th day of May, 2023.

/s/ Kristi A. Wareham, Esq. KRISTI A. WAREHAM, P.C. Attorney for Petitioner

300 Paseo de Peralta, Ste. 103 Santa Fe, NM 87501 Telephone: (505) 820-0698

Fax: (505) 629-1298

Email: kristiwareham@icloud.com

STATE OF NEW MEXICO

COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

Case No. D-101-PB-2023-00137

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF IRENE ANN ORTIZ, DECEASED. NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF IRENE ANN ORTIZ, DECEASED, AND ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO HAVE OR CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF IRENE ANN ORTIZ, DECEASED, OR IN THE MATTER BEING LITIGATED IN THE HEREINAFTER MENTIONED

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THANK

for sending 1500 mylar rescue blankets to Ukraine; Special thanks to Santa Fe Brewing for providing space for the fundraiser; To Swing Soleil and Mariachi

Differente for entertaining the donors; To Ukrainians of New Mexico for providing logistical support and shipping. Watch for more medical events in the future. Call David @ 505-501-0445.

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