Santa Fe Reporter, March 13, 2024

OPINION 7

NEWS

SFR’S NEW ERA 5

Newspaper owners seek local buyer, announce leadership transition

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

TROUBLED WATER 9

La Cienega residents want answers about how their wells got swamped with contaminants and what can be done about it

COVER STORY 10

THE FOILIES

The Electronic Frontier Foundation recognizes the worst in government transparency

Plus, SFR awards its own local Foilie for the attorney general’s failure to enforce OMA

CULTURE

SFR PICKS 17

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Leo Gonzales does more than tattoos, Pisces assemble, Gabriella Marks and Mark Berndt talk all things photo and St. Paddy’s Day with spirit(s)

THE CALENDAR 18

3 QUESTIONS 22

With Writer Miriam Sagan

A&C 26

NÜ KIDS ON THE BLOCK

What the heck is Nü Walkers, anyway?

FOOD 27

NEW TIMES TWO

With Casa Bonita and Valentina’s Dos open, we just kept right on eating in Midtown

MOVIES 28

ABOUT DRY GRASSES REVIEW

Auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan digs deep for three-hour masterpiece

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SFR’s Next Era

Newspaper owners seek local buyer

In just a few months, the Santa Fe Reporter will celebrate 50 years as the capital city’s alternative weekly newspaper. That’s a half-century of seriously consequential news and culture coverage. And we aren’t about to slow down.

Yet, just as the last five decades have witnessed change—including the advent of the internet and a new model for reader support—this one will bring new and exciting innovation and, yes, a shift in leadership, too.

As of today, Editor and Publisher Julie Ann Grimm turns over the reins to Julia Goldberg, the paper’s longest-serving staff member. Grimm has been at the helm of SFR since 2013, when she joined the staff as editor after more than a decade of reporting for the Associated Press and the Santa Fe New Mexican. A few years later, she took on the duties of publisher as well.

“It’s been an incredible privilege and honor to create and grow with the Reporter,” Grimm says. “I’m so grateful to everyone who has trusted us to tell their stories and has followed along with our coverage as we’ve tried to shine a light and keep the community connected. This is a vital organization and I know it has a bright future.”

Goldberg began at SFR as an intern in the 1990s, then served as its editor from 2000 to 2011. After several years of teaching at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design and the Santa Fe Community College, publishing a book and hosting a radio show, she returned to the staff in 2019 as senior correspondent, writing the Morning Word newsletter each weekday and providing award-winning coverage on COVID-19, the arts and politics.

SFR’s legend began in 1974, when the late Richard McCord and his then-wife Laurie Knowles bought a weekly shopper and transformed it into an indispensable news source. In 1988, Hope Aldrich purchased SFR, operating as its publisher until 1997, when journalists Richard Meeker and Mark Zusman, owners of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Willamette Week in Portland, Oregon, purchased SFR.

Now, as Meeker and Zusman embark on a new project in Oregon, they are actively seeking a New Mexico buyer to become the

fourth generation of SFR stewards.

SFR has survived—even thrived—thanks to a long list of staff and contributors; advertisers; philanthropic grants and everyday donors. Even during the worst of the pandemic, its free weekly newspaper and daily weekday Morning Word continued to inform and enlighten readers.

“Happily, in these challenging times, the Santa Fe Reporter is in good health, both journalistically and financially,” Meeker says. “The pandemic taught us an important lesson in the changing media landscape— both in Portland and here in Santa Fe: Today local, independent ownership is the real key to success in the newspaper business. We are making this public announcement in the hopes it will attract interest from residents of Santa Fe.”

At Goldberg’s side for the ongoing mission is a solid team of dedicated locals:

• Advertising Director Robyn Desjardins supports SFR’s journalism by helping local businesses reach our audience.

• Culture Editor Alex De Vore is a versatile and award-winning critic who reviews movies, food, visual and performing arts.

• Art Director Anson Stevens-Bollen is the award-winning creative mind behind SFR’s amazing original illustrations. He directs photography, maps and information graphics to present alternate entry points for stories.

• Staff Writer Evan Chandler, who recently wrapped gavel-to-gavel coverage of the criminal trial against Rust movie-set armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, also writes about City Hall, public safety and the Southside.

• Staff Writer/Calendar Editor Mo Charnot covers education, including Santa Fe Public Schools, the state Public Education Department and higher education in the region.

• Digital Services Manager Brianna Kirkland, a graduate from the Santa Fe Community College Media Arts Department, manages the SFR website and email newsletter production.

• Circulation Director Andy Bramble has made sure issues hit the streets everywhere, every Wednesday for more than 15 years.

• Advertising Executive Zoe Whittle helps customers with low-cost advertising in the classified section and on SFR’s famous Back Page.

Reach Goldberg at juliagoldberg@sfreporter.com and Meeker at rmeeker@sfreporter.com

TRUMP MEETS WITH MUSK IN FLORIDA

Congratulations— you just got to read the grossest six words in a row this week!

STATE PHASES TO 180-DAY SCHOOL YEAR EVEN THOUGH NO ONE REALLY SEEMED TO WANT THAT “This sucks so much,” say area kids.

GOV. LUJAN GRISHAM SIGNS SMOKEY BEAR LICENSE PLATE BILL

Remember, only you can call the governor to ask why fictitious bear license plates are worthy of government time.

SENATE PASSES COMPENSATION FOR DOWNWINDERS

Ah, yes, we believe it was called the Bare Freaking Minimum Bill.

BIDEN DELIVERS STATE OF THE UNION

We’ve been told old jokes aren’t funny, but aren’t they a little funny?

OOGAH BOOGAH!

INFLUENCER LOGAN PAUL TO FIGHT MIKE TYSON IN EXHIBITION MATCH

You know, you dream of dudes like that getting their faces punched in, but it so rarely happens.

TIRE FALLS OFF BOEING PLANE DURING TAKEOFF, CRUSHING CARS BELOW

It’s already a sideways building hurtling through space, did we need to add “defective” into the mix?!

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

COVER, MARCH 6: “LONG BURN”

INFINITE CARE REQUIRED

Thanks for the heart-rending article on the Mora fire. Residents lost not only homes, fields, forests, but long-term peace of mind. Part of trauma is how one is treated afterwards. Has the Forest Service ever apologized? Do they take any meaningful responsibility, such as being infinitely more careful about prescribed burns? Do they actually care?

ANNA KATHERINE SANTA FE

NEWS, MARCH 7:

“PED ADOPTS 180-DAY RULE”

LOST CONTROL

The working people of New Mexico have spoken: we do not want a mandated extended school year or to lose control of our local school districts and governing boards. We need reduced class size, more educational assistants/support in the classroom and increased

professional development & planning time. Educators know these strategies will best improve academic performance. As a 33-year social studies teacher and local union president, I will continue to organize to improve and reimagine what our schools can be someday.

WENDY LEIGHTON

SANTA FE

LETTERS, FEB. 28: “FIRE THEM”

THE PEOPLE

It is not antisemitic to speak out against the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. The Israeli Defense Force continues to murder innocent men, women and children with zeal and enthusiasm. Where is the Palestinian AirForce? Where is the Palestinian Navy? And where is the Palestinian Army to defend these innocent people? There is none, only a ragtag band of resistance fighters who continue to resist the occupation of Palestine. Let us not forget that the Palestinian people are also Semitic.

LIAM WATSON

SANTA FE

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SANTA FE EAVESDROPPER

“Why would anyone come here if they couldn’t sit in the tatami room?”

—Overheard from a disgruntled guest to the hostess at Izanami after she changed the date of her reservation

“I TOLD you senior dating was tricky, and a man is not a plan.”

“Yeah…he just wanted a nurse and a purse.”

—Overheard between two spritely seniors at Dillard’s shoe department

Send your Overheard in Santa Fe tidbits to: eavesdropper@sfreporter.com

Troubled Water

La Cienega residents want answers about how their wells got swamped with contaminants and what can be done about it

BY SARA MACNEIL author@sfreporter.com

Beneath the adobe-lined lots, pastures and farmlands of La Cienega and La Cieneguilla, southwest of Santa Fe, a toxic undercurrent threatens the health of a rural farming community.

PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a persistent chemical family that can cause cancer with prolonged exposure, lurks in the depths of some private wells in the predominantly Hispanic community.

“I’ll keep saying this until I’m blue in the face,” Robert Romero, chairman of the La Cienega Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association, tells SFR. “We have less and less water and more and more contamination.”

While area residents are drinking bottled water and ordering tests on their own wells, they’re also pleading for answers about what follows. This week, Santa Fe County plans a “town hall” meeting on the topic.

PFAS has likely been in the area for years, but contamination came to light last year.

The National Guard revealed in a February 2023 site inspection report PFAS contamination in one of its wells at the Santa Fe Army Aviation Support Facility adjacent to the Santa Fe Regional Airport—likely from firefighting foam containing the chemicals. It’s the same foam that caused large-scale contamination at a New Mexico military base near Clovis, spurring the US government to test other facilities.

Just how much PFAS is below the Santa Fe facility, whether it actually came from the airport facility and how much has moved to La Cienega and La Cieneguilla, however, remain among unanswered questions.

When Santa Fe Public Utilities Director John Dupuis read the National Guard report, he questioned what he calls a risky conclusion it contained. Military officials assumed the PFAS contamination at the air base in Santa Fe was confined to a perched aquifer— or an impermeable rock base that would control the spread of PFAS.

“We don’t want to just assume it’s perched

and that it’s not going anywhere,” Dupuis tells SFR.

Dupuis’ skepticism led the city to test some of its monitoring wells in August near the airport.

A monitoring well west of Huey Road and south of Paseo Real, near a sludge disposal facility adjacent to the city sewer plant, contained levels of contamination in varying types of PFAS ranging from .87 to 17 parts per trillion. New Mexico’s current acceptable level of PFAS is set at 40 ppt, however the EPA has proposed a standard for drinking water limiting certain PFAS chemicals to 4 ppt.

PFAS were not detected, however, when the city later hired contractors to test its drinking water wells.

Then, in November, Santa Fe County reported half of six private wells sampled in La Cienega and La Cieneguilla tested positive for PFAS—at levels between 1.8 ppt and 25 ppt. The main production well for the La Cienega mutual domestic system, which has about 150 connections, did not test positive for PFAS.

News of PFAS contamination in La Cienega and La Cieneguillas, which is home to approximately 4,000 people, has led to fear and worry.

“Residents of our community do not know who to turn to for support or information about PFAS. The potential for confusion and the spread of misinformation due to lack of guidance from our public officials is high, and we need someone who can help summarize this complicated data and provide clear answers to our community,” reads a letter the La Cienega Valley Association, a community planning and advocacy group, sent Feb. 6 to the National Guard, US Environmental Protection Agency, Santa Fe City Council and Santa Fe County Commission.

With just a handful of wells in the county’s sample, other well owners face the financial burden of costly lab tests, argues the group.

“We live in a traditionally underserved area of this community and are seeking the cooperation and support of each of your agencies in assessing the sources of contamination of these wells, assisting residents in obtaining testing and filtration systems and remediating the sources of contamination once they have been identified,” the letter continues.

The letter also raises the question of whether outdated infrastructure at the Paseo Real Wastewater Treatment Facility, including a documented failure to comply with the

ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

Clean Water Act, could also be a factor. Representatives from the New Mexico Environment Department also plan to meet with residents at the public forum later this week. Spokesman Jorge Estrada tells SFR the department is working to identify responsible parties because the New Mexico Hazardous Waste and Water Quality Act makes it illegal to release PFAS into the environment. In September, NMED published an informational pamphlet about PFAS for private well owners.

Santa Fe County spokeswoman Olivia Romo tells SFR the county plans to use a state grant to assess the extent of contamination, identify potential capital projects and conduct outreach. It also formed a “PFAS Coordination Team,” which includes a public health and community planning expert, as well as a professional translator.

Meanwhile, Albuquerque law firm Singleton Schreiber filed a lawsuit on March 6 on behalf of the residents of the La Cieneguilla and La Cienega against 3M, TYCO, Dupont, Chemours and other manufacturers of aqueous film forming foam. The firm sent mailers to households in the area seeking people to join what they hope will be a class action.

“Unaware that their household water had been tainted by toxic PFAS chemicals, these individuals received no prior warning from the corporations responsible for supplying and producing these hazardous substances.”

Brian Colón, managing partner of Singleton Schreiber’s New Mexico Offices and a former state auditor, said in a news release about the litigation.

As the community deals with an unpredictable dilemma, Romero advocated for scientists and residents to steer decisions about PFAs clean up.

“If we have a good water authority based upon scientists and people like myself that understand and know the water,” he says, “we could have a more proactive recourse when these issues approach us, rather than having it become a political issue and playing the blame game.”

PFAS TOWN HALL

6 to 8 pm, Thursday March 14, Santa Fe Community College Jemez Room, 6401 Richards Ave.

Robert Romero, chairman of the La Cienega Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association, tells SFR the news of PFAS contamination in the area worries local residents.

The Foilies

Recognizing the worst in government transparency

BY ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION

ILLUSTRATIONS BY EFF DESIGNER HANNAH DIAZ

We’re taught in school about checks and balances between the various branches of government, but those lessons tend to leave out the role civilians play in holding officials accountable. We’re not just talking about the ballot box, but the everyday power we all have to demand government agencies make their records and data available to public scrutiny.

At every level of government in the United States (and often in other countries), there are laws that empower the public to file requests for public records. They go by various names—Freedom of Information, Right-to-Know, Open Records, or even Sunshine laws—but all share the general concept that because the government is of the people, its documents belong to the people. You don’t need to be a lawyer or journalist to file these; you just have to care.

It’s easy to feel powerless in these times, as local newsrooms close, and elected officials embrace disinformation as a standard

political tool. But here’s what you can do, and we promise it’ll make you feel better: Pick a local agency—it could be a city council, a sheriff’s office or state department of natural resources—and send them an email demanding their public record-request log, or any other record showing what requests they receive, how long it took them to respond, whether they turned over records, and how much they charged the requester for copies. Many agencies even have an online portal that makes it easier, or you can use MuckRock’s records request tool. (You can also explore other people’s results that have been published on MuckRock’s FOIA Log Explorer.) That will send the message to local leaders they’re on notice. You may even uncover an egregious pattern of ignoring or willfully violating the law.

The Foilies are our attempt to call out these violations each year during Sunshine Week, an annual event (March 10-16 this year) when advocacy groups, news organizations and citizen watchdogs combine efforts to highlight the importance of government transparency laws. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock, in partnership with the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, of which SFR is a member, compile the year’s worst and most

ridiculous responses to public records requests and other attempts to thwart public access to information, including through increasing attempts to gut the laws guaranteeing this access—and we issue these agencies and officials tongue-in-cheek “awards” for their failures.

Sometimes, these awards actually make a difference. Last year, Mendocino County in California repealed its policy of charging illegal public records fees after local journalists and activists used The Foilies’ “The Transparency Tax Award” in their advocacy against the rule.

This year marks our 10th annual accounting of ridiculous redactions, outrageous copying fees and retaliatory attacks on requesters—and we have some doozies for the ages.

THE NOT-SO-MAGIC WORD AWARD

Augusta County Sheriff’s Office, Virginia Public records laws exist in no small part because corruption, inefficiency and other malfeasance happen, regardless of the size of the government. The public’s right to hold these entities accountable through transparency

can prevent waste and fraud.

Of course, this kind of oversight can be very inconvenient to those who would like a bit of secrecy. Employees in Virginia’s Augusta County thought they’d found a neat trick for foiling Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act.

Consider: “NO FOIA”

In an attempt to withhold a bunch of emails they wanted to hide from the public eye, employees in Augusta County began tagging their messages with “NO FOIA,” as an apparent incantation staff believed could ward off transparency. Of course, no magical words allow officials to evade transparency laws; the laws assume all government records are public, so agencies can’t just say they don’t want records released.

Fortunately, at least one county employee thought that breaking the law must be a little more complicated than that, and this person went to Breaking Through News to blow the whistle.

Breaking Through News sent a FOIA request for those “NO FOIA” emails. The outlet received just 140 emails of the 1,212 that the county indicated were responsive, and those released records highlighted the county’s highly suspect approach to withholding public records. Among the released records were

materials like the wages for the Sheriff Office employees (clearly a public record), the overtime rates (clearly a public record) and a letter from the sheriff deriding the competitive wages being offered at other county departments (embarrassing but still clearly a public record).

Other clearly public records, according to a local court, included recordings of executive sessions the commissioners had entered illegally, which Breaking Through News learned about through the released records. They teamed up with the Augusta Free Press to sue for access to the recordings, a suit they won last month. They still haven’t received the awarded records, and it’s possible Augusta County will appeal. Still, it turned out that, thanks to the efforts of local journalists, the county’s misguided attempt to conjure a culture of “No FOIA” in August County actually brought them more scrutiny and accountability.

THE POOP AND PASTA AWARD Richlands, Virginia

In 2020, Laura Mollo of Richlands, Virginia, discovered that the county 911 center could not dispatch Richlands residents’ emergency calls: While the center dispatched all other county 911 calls, those from Richlands had to be transferred to the Richlands Police Department to be handled. After the Richlands Town Council dismissed Mollo’s concerns, she began requesting records under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. The records showed Richlands residents faced lengthy delays in connecting with local emergency services. On one call, a woman pleaded for help for her husband, only to be told that county dispatch couldn’t do anything—and her husband died during the delay. Other records Mollo obtained showed that Richlands appeared to be misusing its resources.

You would hope that public officials would be grateful that Mollo uncovered the town’s inadequate emergency response system and budget mismanagement. Well, not exactly: Mollo endured a campaign of intimidation and harassment for holding the government accountable. Mollo describes how her mailbox was stuffed with cow manure on one occasion, and spaghetti on another (which Mollo understood to be an insult to her husband’s Italian heritage). A town contractor harassed her at her home; police pulled her over; and Richlands officials even had a special prosecutor investigate her.

But this story has a happy ending: In November 2022, Mollo was elected to the Richlands Town Council. The records she uncovered led Richlands to change over to

the county 911 center, which now dispatch es Richlands residents’ calls. And in 2023, the Virginia Coalition for Open Government recognized Mollo by awarding her the Laurence E. Richardson Citizen Award for Open Government. Mollo’s recog nition is well-deserved. Our com munities are indebted to people like her who vindicate our right to public records, especially when they face such inexcusable ha rassment for their efforts.

THE ERROR 404 TRANSPARENCY NOT FOUND AWARD

FOIAonline

In 2012, FOIAonline was launched with much fanfare as a way to bring federal transparency into the late 20th century. No longer would requesters have to mail or fax re quests. Instead, FOIAonline was a consolidated starting point, managed by the Environmental Protection Agency, that lets people file Freedom of Information Act requests with numerous federal entities from within a single digital interface.

Even better, the results of requests would be available online, meaning if someone else asked for interesting information, it would be available to everyone, potentially reducing the number of duplicate requests. It was a good idea—but it was marred from the beginning by uneven uptake, agency infighting, and inscrutable design decisions that created endless headaches. In its latter years, FOIAonline would go down for days or weeks at a time without explanation. The portal saw agency after agency ditch the platform in favor of either homegrown solutions or third-party vendors.

Last year, the EPA announced that the grand experiment was being shuttered, leaving thousands of requesters uncertain about how and where to follow up on their open requests, and unceremoniously deleting millions of documents from public access without any indication of whether they would be made available again.

In a very on-brand twist of the knife, the decision to sunset FOIAonline had actually been made two years prior, after an EPA office reported in a presentation that the service was likely to enter a “financial death spiral” of rising costs and reduced agency usage. Meanwhile, civil-society organizations such as MuckRock, the Project on Government Oversight and the Internet Archive have worked to resuscitate and make available at least some of the documents the site used to host.

to restrict access to books that deal with “sexualized content,” seemingly in lockstep with book-censorship laws happening around the country. Searching the school library’s catalog, he came across a strange trend: Certain controversial books that appeared on other challenged-book lists had been checked out for a year or more. Since students are only allowed to check out books for a week, he (correctly) suspected that library staff were checking them out themselves to block access.

So he filed a public records request for all books checked out by non-students. Now, it’s generally important for library patrons to have their privacy protected when it comes to the books they read—but it’s a different story if public employees are checking out books as part of their official duties and effectively enabling censorship. The district withheld the records, provided incomplete information and even went so far as to return books and re-check them out under a student’s account in order to obscure the truth. And so Laustsen sued.

In short, the district altered the records... thwarted public access to public information, and effectuated a cover-up of faculty, administrators, and other non-students’ removal of books.

THE LITERARY JUDICIAL THRASHING OF THE YEAR AWARD

Pennridge, Pennsylvania, School District

Sometimes when you’re caught breaking the law, the judge will throw the book at you. In the case of Pennridge School District in Bucks County, Penn. Judge Jordan B. Yeager catapulted an entire shelf of banned books at administrators for violating the state’s Rightto-Know Law.

The case begins with Darren Laustsen, a local parent who was alarmed by a new policy

The judge issued a scathing and literarily robust ruling: “In short, the district altered the records that were the subject of the request, thwarted public access to public information, and effectuated a cover-up of faculty, administrators, and other non-students’ removal of books from Pennridge High School’s library shelves.” The opinion was peppered with witty quotes from historically banned books, including Nineteen Eighty-Four, Alice in Wonderland, The Art of Racing in the Rain and To Kill a Mockingbird. After enumerating the district’s claims that later proved to be inaccurate, he cited Kurt Vonnegut’s infamous catchphrase from Slaughterhouse-Five: “So it goes.”

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECALL AWARD

Los Angeles Police Department

Police agencies seem to love nothing more than trumpeting an arrest with an accompanying mugshot—but when the tables are turned, and it’s the cops’ headshots being disclosed, they seem to lose their minds and all sense of the First Amendment.

This unconstitutional escapade began (and is still going) after a reporter and police watchdog published headshots of Los Angeles Police Department officers, which they lawfully obtained via a public records lawsuit. LAPD cops and their union were furious. The city then sued the reporter, Ben Camacho and the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, demanding that they remove the

Government officials retaliated against a public records requester by filling her mailbox with noodles.

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headshots from the internet and return the records to LAPD.

You read that right: After a settlement in a public records lawsuit required the city to disclose the headshots, officials turned around and sued the requester for, uh, disclosing those same records because the city claimed it accidentally released pictures of undercover cops.

But it gets worse: Last fall, a trial court denied a motion to throw out the city’s case seeking to claw back the images; Camacho and the coalition have appealed that decision and have not taken the images offline. And in February, the LAPD sought to hold Camacho and the coalition liable for damages it may face in a separate lawsuit brought against it by hundreds of police officers whose headshots were disclosed.

We’re short on space, but we’ll try explain the myriad ways in which all of the above is flagrantly unconstitutional: The First Amendment protects Camacho and the coalition’s ability to publish public records they lawfully obtained; prohibits courts from entering prior restraints that stop protected speech; and limits the LAPD’s ability to make them pay for any mistakes the city made in disclosing the headshots. Los Angeles officials should be ashamed of themselves—but their conduct shows they apparently have no shame.

THE COPS ANONYMOUS AWARD

Chesterfield County Police Department, Va.

The Chesterfield County Police Department in Virginia refused to disclose the names of hundreds of police officers to a public records requester on this theory: Because the cops might at some point go undercover, the public could never learn their identities. It’s not at all dystopian to claim a public law enforcement agency needs to have secret police!

Other police agencies throughout the state seem to deploy similar secrecy tactics, too.

THE KEEP YOUR OPINIONS TO YOURSELF AWARD

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita

In March 2023, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita sent a letter to medical providers across the state demanding information about the types of gender-affirming care they may provide to young Hoosiers. But this was no unbiased probe: Rokita made his position very clear when he publicly blasted these health services as “the sterilization of vulnerable children” that “could legitimately be considered child abuse.” He made claims to the media that the clinics’ main goals weren’t to support vulnerable youth, but to rake in cash.

Yet as loud as he was about his views in the press, Rokita was suddenly tight-lipped once the nonprofit organization American Oversight filed a public records request asking for all the research, analyses and other

I t’s not at all dystopian to claim a public law enforcement agency needs to have secret police.

documentation that he used to support his claims. Although his agency located 85 documents that were relevant to their request, Rokita refused to release a single page, citing a legal exception that allows him to withhold deliberative documents that are “expressions of opinion or are of a speculative nature.”

Perhaps if Rokita’s opinions on gender-affirming care weren’t based on facts, he should have kept those opinions and speculations to himself in the first place.

THE FAILED SUNSHINE STATE AWARD

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

Florida’s Sunshine Law is known as one of the strongest in the nation, but Gov. Ron DeSantis spent much of 2023 working, pretty successfully, to undermine its superlative status with a slew of bills designed to weaken public transparency and journalism.

In March, DeSantis was happy to sign a bill to withhold all records related to travel done by the governor and a whole cast of characters. The law went into effect just more than a week before the governor announced his presidential bid. In addition, DeSantis has asserted his “executive privilege” to block the release of public records in a move that, according to experts like media law professor Catherine Cameron, is unprecedented in Florida’s history of transparency.

DeSantis suspended his presidential campaign in January. That may affect how many trips he’ll be taking out-of-state in the coming months, but it won’t undo the damage of his Sunshine-slashing policies.

Multiple active lawsuits are challenging DeSantis over his handling of Sunshine Law requests. In one, The Washington Post is challenging the constitutionality of withholding the governor’s travel records. In that case, a Florida Department of Law Enforcement official last month claimed the governor

had delayed the release of his travel records. Nonprofit watchdog group American Oversight filed a lawsuit in February challenging “the unjustified and unlawful delay” in responding to requests, citing a dozen records requests to the governor’s office that have been pending for one to three years.

“It’s stunning, the amount of material that has been taken off the table from a state that many have considered to be the most transparent,” Michael Barfield, director of public access for the Florida Center for Government Accountability (FCGA), told NBC News. The FCGA is now suing the governor’s office for records on flights of migrants to Massachusetts. “We’ve quickly become one of the least transparent in the space of four years.”

THE SELF-SERVING SPECIAL SESSION AWARD

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders

By design, FOIA laws exist to help the people who pay taxes hold the people who spend those taxes accountable. In Arkansas, as in many states, taxpayer money funds most government functions: daily office operations, schools, travel, dinners, security, etc. As Arkansas’ governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders has flown all over the country, accompanied by members of her family and the Arkansas State Police. For the ASP alone, the people of Arkansas paid $1.4 million in the last half of last year.

Last year, Sanders seemed to tire of the scrutiny being paid to her office and her spending. Sanders cited her family’s safety as she tried to shutter any attempts to see her travel records, taking the unusual step of calling a special session of the state Legislature to protect herself from the menace of transparency.

Notably, the governor had also recently been implicated in an Arkansas Freedom of

Information Act case for these kinds of records.

The attempt to gut the law included a laundry list of carve-outs unrelated to safety, such as walking back the ability of public-records plaintiffs to recover attorney’s fees when they win their case. Other attempts to scale back Arkansas’ FOIA earlier in the year had not passed, and the state attorney general’s office was already working to study what improvements could be made to the law.

Fortunately, the people of Arkansas came out to support the principle of government transparency, even as their governor decided she shouldn’t need to deal with it anymore. Over a tense few days, dozens of Arkansans lined up to testify in defense of the state FOIA and the value of holding elected officials, like Sanders, accountable to the people.

By the time the session wound down, the state Legislature had gone through multiple revisions. The sponsors walked back most of the extreme asks and added a requirement for the Arkansas State Police to provide quarterly reports on some of the governor’s travel costs. However, other details of that travel, like companions and the size of the security team, ultimately became exempt. Sanders managed to twist the whole fiasco into a win, though it would be a great surprise if the Legislature didn’t reconvene this year with some fresh attempts to take a bite out of FOIA.

While such a blatant attempt to bash public transparency is certainly a loser move, it clearly earns Sanders a win in the FOILIES— and the distinction of being one of the least transparent government officials this year.

THE DOOBIE-OUS REDACTION AWARD

US Department of Health and Human Services and Drug Enforcement Administration

Bloomberg reporters got a major scoop when they wrote about a Health and Human Services memo detailing how health officials were considering major changes to the federal restrictions on marijuana, recommending reclassifying it from a Schedule I substance to Schedule III.

Currently, the Schedule I classification for marijuana puts it in the same league as heroin and LSD, while Schedule III classification would indicate lower potential for harm and addiction along with valid medical applications.

Since Bloomberg viewed but didn’t publish the memo itself, reporters from the Cannabis Business Times filed a FOIA request to get the document into the public record. Their request was met with limited success: HHS provided a copy of the letter, but redacted virtually the entire document besides the salutation and contact information. When pressed further by CBT reporters, the DEA and HHS would only confirm what the redacted documents had already revealed—virtually nothing.

HHS handed over the full, 250-page review several months later, after a lawsuit was filed by an attorney in Texas. The crucial information the agencies had fought so hard to protect: “Based on my review of the evidence and the FDA’s recommendation, it is my recommendation as the Assistant Secretary for Health that marijuana should be placed in Schedule III of the CSA.”

THE “CLEARLY RELEASABLE,” CLEARLY NONSENSE AWARD US Air Force

Increasingly, federal and state government agencies require public records requesters to submit their requests through online portals. It’s not uncommon for these portals to be quite lacking. For example, some portals fail to provide space to include information crucial to requests.

But the Air Force deserves special recognition for the changes it made to its submission portal, which asked requesters if they would agree to limit their requests to information that the Air Force deemed “clearly releasable.” You might think, “surely the Air Force defined this vague ‘clearly releasable’

information.” Alas, you’d be wrong: The form stated only that requesters would “agree to accept any information that will be withheld in compliance with the principles of FOIA exemptions as a full release.” In other words, the Air Force asked requesters to give up the fight over information before it even began, and to accept the Air Force’s redactions and rejections as non-negotiable.

Following criticism, the Air Force jettisoned the update to its portal to undo these changes. Moving forward, it’s “clear” that it should aim higher when it comes to transparency.

THE SCRUBBED SCRUBS AWARD Ontario Ministry of Health, Canada

Upon taking office in 2018, Ontario Premier Doug Ford was determined to shake up the Canadian province’s healthcare system. His administration has been a bit more tightlipped, however, about the results of that invasive procedure. Under Ford, Ontario’s Ministry of Health is fighting the release of information on how understaffed the province’s medical system is, citing “economic and other interests.” The government’s own report, partially released to Global News, details high attrition as well as “chronic shortages” of nurses.

The reporters’ attempts to find out exactly how understaffed the system is, however, were met with black-bar redactions. The government claims that releasing the information would negatively impact “negotiating contracts with health-care workers.” However, the refusal to release the information hasn’t helped solve the problem; instead, it’s left the public in the dark about the extent of the issue and what it would actually cost to address it.

Global News has appealed the withholdings. That process has dragged on for over a year, but a decision is expected soon.

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The feds heavily redacted an email about reclassifying cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III substance.

The Foilies 2024

THE JUDICIAL BLINDFOLD AWARD

Mississippi Justice Courts

Courts are usually transparent by default. People can walk in to watch hearings and trials, and can get access to court records online or at the court clerk’s office. And there are often court rules or state laws that ensure courts are public.

Apparently, the majority of Mississippi Justice Courts don’t feel like following those rules. An investigation by ProPublica and the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal found that nearly two-thirds of these county-level courts obstructed public access to basic information about law enforcement’s execution of search warrants. This blockade not only appeared to violate state rules on court access; it frustrated the public’s ability to scrutinize when police officers raid someone’s home without knocking and announcing themselves.

The good news is that the Daily Journal is pushing back. It filed suit in the justice court in Union County, Mississippi, and asked for an end to the practice of never making search-warrant materials public.

Mississippi courts are unfortunately not alone in their efforts to keep search warrant records secret. The San Bernardino Superior Court of California sought to keep secret search warrants used to engage in invasive digital surveillance, only disclosing most of them after the EFF sued.

IT’S MY PARTY AND I CAN HIDE RECORDS IF I WANT TO AWARD

Wyoming Department of Education

Does the public really have a right to know if their tax dollars pay for a private political event?

Former Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Schroeder and Chief Communications Officer Linda Finnerty in the Wyoming Department of Education didn’t seem to think so, according to Laramie County Judge Steven Sharpe.

Sharpe, in his order requiring disclosure of the records, wrote that the two were more concerned with “covering the agency’s tracks” and acted in “bad faith” in complying with Wyoming’s state open records law.

The lawsuit proved that Schroeder originally used public money for a “Stop the Sexualization of Our Children” event and provided misleading statements to the plaintiffs about the source of funding for the private, pro-book-banning event.

The former superintendent had also failed

to provide texts and emails sent via personal devices that were related to the planning of the event, ignoring the advice of the state’s attorneys. Instead, Schroeder decided to “shop around” for legal advice and listen to a friend, private attorney Drake Hill, who told him to not provide his cell phone for inspection.

Meanwhile, Finnerty and the Wyoming Department of Education “did not attempt to locate financial documents responsive to plaintiffs’ request, even though Finnerty knew or certainly should have known such records existed.”

Transparency won this round with the disclosure of more than 1,500 text messages and emails—and according to Sharpe, the incident established a legal precedent on Wyoming public records access.

THE FEE-L THE BURN AWARD Baltimore Police Department

In 2020, Open Justice Baltimore sued the Baltimore Police Department over the agency’s demand that the nonprofit watchdog group pay more than $1 million to obtain copies of use-of-force investigation files.

The police department had decreased their assessment to $245,000 by the time of the lawsuit, but it rejected the nonprofit’s fee waiver, questioning the public interest in the records and where they would change the public’s understanding of the issue. The agency also claimed that fulfilling the re quest would be costly and burdensome for its short-staffed police department.

In 2023, Maryland’s Supreme Court is sued a sizzling decision criticizing the BPD’s $245,000 fee assessment and its refusal to waive that fee in the name of public interest. The Supreme Court found that the public interest in how the department polices itself was clear and that the depart ment should have considered how a denial of the fee waiver would “exacerbate the pub lic controversy” and further “the perception that BPD has something to hide.”

The Supreme Court called BPD’s fee assessment “arbi trary and capricious” and remanded the case back to the police department, which must now reconsider the fee waiver. The unanimous decision from the state’s highest court did not mince its words on the cost of pub lic records, either: “While an official custodi an’s discretion in these matters is broad,” the opinion reads, “it is not boundless.”

THE CONTINUING FAILURE AWARD

US Citizenship and Immigration Services Alien registration files, also commonly known as “A-Files,” contain crucial information about a non-citizen’s interaction with immigration agencies, and are central to determining eligibility for immigration benefits.

However, US immigration agencies have routinely failed to release alien files within the statutory time limit for responding, according to Nightingale et al v. US Citizenship and Immigration Services et al, a class-action lawsuit by a group of immigration attorneys and individual requesters.

The attorneys filed suit in 2019 against the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Department of Homeland Security and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In 2020, Judge William H. Orrick ruled that the agencies must respond to FOIA requests within 20 business days, and provide the court and class counsel with quarterly compliance reports. The case remains open.

With US immigration courts containing a backlog of more than 2 million cases as of October of last year, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the path to citizenship is bogged down for many appli-

Attorney General Merrick Garland made it federal policy to not require FOIA requests for copies of immigration proceedings, instead encouraging agencies to make records more readily accessible through other means.

Even the A-File backlog itself is improving. In the last status report, filed by the Department of Justice, they wrote that “of the approximately 119,140 new A-File requests received in the current reporting period, approximately 82,582 were completed, and approximately 81,980 were timely completed.”

THE CREATIVE INVOICING AWARD

Richmond, Virginia, Police Department

OpenOversightVA requested copies of general procedures—the basic outline of how police departments run—from localities across Virginia. While many departments either publicly posted them or provided them at no charge, Richmond Police responded with a $7,873.14 invoice. That’s $52.14 an hour to spend one hour on “review, and, if necessary, redaction” on each of the department’s 151 procedures.

This Foilies “winner” was chosen because of the wide gap between how available the information should be, and the staggering cost to bring it out of the file cabinet.

As MuckRock’s agency tracking shows, this is hardly an aberration for the agency. But this estimated invoice came not long after the department’s tear-gassing of protesters in 2020 cost the city almost $700,000. At a time when other departments are opening their most basic rulebooks (in California, for example, every law enforcement agency is required to post these policy manuals online), Richmond has been caught attempting to use a simple FOIA request as a cash cow.

The Foilies (Creative Commons Attribution License) were compiled by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (Director of Investigations Dave Maass, Senior Staff Attorney Aaron Mackey, Legal Fellow Brendan Gilligan, Investigative Researcher Beryl Lipton) and MuckRock (Co-Founder Michael Morisy, Data Reporter Dillon Bergin, Engagement Journalist Kelly Kauffman, and Contributor Tom Nash), with further review and editing by Shawn Musgrave. Illustrations are by EFF Designer Hannah Diaz. The Foilies are published in partnership with the Association of Alternative Newsmedia.

Some agencies claim outrageous fees for redacting documents to deter public access.

WE’RE BUSY REBRANDING AWARD

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez

Fellow journalists at the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism have had a little fun sending birthday cakes to government agencies when records requests pass the one-year mark. This award comes just shy of a 1st birthday, but in honor of Sunshine Week, SFR offers its own Foilie award to Attorney General Raúl Torrez for total disregard of the timely enforcement of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act.

This state law simply requires the public’s business be conducted in public with very limited exceptions, and when they hold closed-door executive sessions, they must provide notice on a published agenda. But the Santa Fe Board of County Commissioners didn’t follow that rule on May 1, 2023 when commissioners decided after a long public hearing on a contentious annexation discussion to move to a private room to talk more before returning with instructions for community members about how to proceed.

SFR filed a formal complaint May 10 with the New Mexico Attorney General’s office.

The NM Foundation for Open Government weighed in with a letter at the same time, in which Director Melanie Majors wrote, “Any attempt to engage in a public decision-making process without including the public as outlined in the state’s guidelines is a violation of the law and just as important, the public’s trust. It is basically a question of accountability and being transparent.”

The AG’s office wrote May 17 that it had assigned the matter to an attorney. But SFR has inquired about the status of the complaint every few months since then without resolution.

In August, Heather Sandoval, executive secretary/administrative assistant in the Government Council and Accountability Division wrote, “We apologize for the delay on your complaint. Due to severe staff shortages and turnover we are currently working through a backlog of complaints and doing all we can to get to yours as quickly as possible. You will be copied on anything that goes out regarding your complaint and I will continue to do anything I can to expedite it as much as possible.

Then in December 2023, she replied: “As I mentioned in my last email, due to staff shortages and a large backlog of complaints, we are still behind on getting through them. We are doing everything we can to work through them as quickly as we can, but please know that your complaint is still in our queue and we will work diligently to get to it as fast as we are able.”

SFR’s turn for attention might be coming, however, if a complaint filed against the City of Santa Fe is any guide. Yet the outcome of the complaint does not instill confidence.

Amber Espinosa-Trujillo, wife of former city Councilor Ronald Trujillo, wrote the Attorney General on March 31, 2023 after she and others critical of the administraion were denied entrance to Mayor Alan Webber’s State of the City address at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center because Webber’s political team said it was “sold out.” SFR counted more than 75 empty seats during the speech. But since the entire City Council was present, EspinosaTrujillo argued it presented a violation of the law.

Earlier this month, a letter finally came back from Torrez’s office. The upshot: Nothing to see here. “Although a quorum of city council members may have been present for the speech,” it reads, “those members did not formulate policy, discuss public business, or take any public action. Because of that, the event did not implicate IPRA.”

We don’t even know what that last sentence means.

But Torrez found the time and staff to rebrand his office as the “New Mexico Department of Justice,” complete with a new logo he bragged about in a press release. He’s also suing Facebook and flew to Washington to testify about it.

SFR asked AG spokeswoman Lauren Rodriguez to arrange an interview with someone in the office who could talk about staffing in the Government Council and Accountability Division and about the status of the newspaper’s complaint. The office scheduled an interview a week in advance, then canceled it with about 45 minutes notice and did not agree to answer questions before press time.

(Julie Ann Grimm)

MUSIC SAT/16

HEY, FISHFACES!

Surely the dance and DJ lovers in town know that when they see names like Feathericci and/or Bacon, they can count on a certain level of quality. Paul Feathericci and Ben Wright have been playing shows in Santa Fe for decades, in fact, and they’ve always brought the heat with techno, house and minimalist electronic dance jamz (minimalist when compared to EDM, anyway). This week, they’ll bring that heat to La Reina and the El Rey Court as part of an ongoing monthly Zodiac-themed residency. This month? Pisces. “I think at my most selfish core, I have a need to perform,” Feathericci tells SFR. “But I also feel like if you want your town to be cooler, just do it. Be part of what makes your town cooler.” Yeah, these boys have certainly done that since way back. Join them, won’t you? (ADV)

Pisces Party with DJs Fearthericci and Bacon: 8-11 pm Saturday, March 16. Free. El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

LECTURE SUN/17

OH, SNAP

When it comes to Santa Fe photography, you simply must be aware of shooter Gabriella Marks. She’s a portrait expert, an studied eye, an all-around champ. Similarly, you must also know about Canyon Road’s Edition One Gallery opened by Pilar Law and Mark Berndt, themselves no strangers to the art of photo. This week, it all comes together at Leicas & Scotch, an ongoing conversational event featuring Berndt discussing all things process and product with photogs like Marks. “It’s partly about the journey, partly about the psychology of the art,” Marks says, adding that there will be a Q&A after the talk. “It’s about creating a portrait with somebody as opposed to of somebody.” In summation, Leicas & Scotch is celebratory, but also a nuts and bolts thing. Neat! (ADV)

Leicas & Scotch: Gabriella Marks: 3 pm Sunday, March 17. Free. Edition One Gallery 729 Canyon Road, (505) 982-9668

MUSIC SUN/17

IN THE PINES

If St. Patrick’s Day doesn’t quite feel complete without a traditional Irish music session and Guinnessfueled dancing, local act Glorieta Pines is set to bring just that to the Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery stage for the second year in a row. Traditional music from various cultures is a big part of the band’s musical repertoire; while fans best know the trio for their insightful acoustic songwriting driven by hypnotic beats and rich harmonies, Irish reels are in their blood. Sure, you could get loaded at any bar in town, but consider transcending into the streets of Dublin with Glorieta Pines. “If it’s anything like last year, it’s going to be a great dance party,” guitarist Brian Nelson tells SFR. (Adam Ferguson)

St. Patrick’s Day at Tumbleroot: 5-8 pm Sunday March 17. $10 (kids free). Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 308-3808

LEO GONZALES

ART OPENING FRI/15

Heavy Mettle

Artist Leo Gonzales is well-known as a tattooer— turns out he’s been painting the whole time, too

“I was painting well before I was tattooing,” says Albuquerque-based artist and tattooer Leo Gonzales. “I’ve probably been painting for…coming up on 35 years.”

Indeed, though in New Mexico Gonzales might best be known as an accomplished tattooer at ABQ shop Stay Gold, his painterly journey stretches back to early appreciation for the likes of Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell and the sorts of artists you might have seen in Heavy Metal magazine or in books like the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual

Gonzales is an art school dropout, a mostly-self-taught oil painter, a bit of a TTRPG nerd (look it up; become a nerd) and a longtime lover of dark themes. His upcoming show Summonings at KEEP Contemporary encapsulates it all. Culling from the rich history of fantasy art, a little bit of the ol’ Lovecraftian unknowable cosmic horror and a healthy dash of the tattoo world’s biomechanical design, Summonings finds multiple new oilon-board pieces from Gonzales coming together.

Strange hooded beings worship at the foot of a tree; a manticore roars imposingly; a phoenix is reborn. Each is a detailed world of swirling colors and layered texture and meaning. Summonings also serves as a statement on Gonzales’ next chapter: fewer days tattooing and more working in his home studio.

“[Painting] gives me an escape from what I do as a tattooer, even if some of the subject matter carries over from time to time,” he tells SFR. “It’s a total departure from what I’m doing with tattoo, and I’d like the audience to interpret what the pieces mean.”

That means you’ll have to go check ‘em out at KEEP this week. Fantasy, RPG and video game fans? You’ve been told.

(Alex De Vore)

LEO GONZALES: SUMMONINGS

5-7 pm Friday, March 15. Free

KEEP Contemporary 125 Lincoln Ave., (505) 557-9574

COURTESY PAUL FEATHERICCI

MARK BERNDT

ERIN-E

THE CALENDAR

DRAG BINGO!

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135

An unforgettable evening of bingo, laughter and dazzling drag performances.

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7-9 pm, $20

GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Paralta, (505) 989-3278

Challenging trivia with prizes. 8-10 pm

JOB-READY HIRE FAIR

Early College Opportunities High School 2301 W Zia Road, (505) 467-2701

A job fair for any teen interested in construction/home building.   1:15-4:30 pm

KIDS SING ALONG: RAILYARD

PARK

Railyard Park Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe St., (505) 982-3373

A variety of engaging music games for toddlers and babies.  10:30-11:15 am

QUEER COFFEE GET TOGETHER

Ohori’s Coffee Roasters 505 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-9692

WED/13

BOOKS/LECTURES

HISTORY WITH CHRISTIAN

35 Degrees North

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

A free history talk with hobbyist historian Christian Saiia. Noon-2 pm

DANCE

POMEGRANATE SEEDS

YOUTH MENTORSHIP

PROGRAM

Pomegranate Studio

535 Cerrillos Road, (505) 501-2142

An after-school dance program.

5-7 pm

EVENTS

BECOME A NATIVE VOTER

REGISTRAR

Santa Fe Indigenous Center 1420 Cerrillos Road, (505) 660-4210

A free voter registration training class for Natives. RSVP at tinyurl.com/ycxucanm.

4:30-6 pm

Coffee with the local queer community. 9:30-11 am

MUSIC

DON CURRY

Cowgirl

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

A singer/guitarist plays originals and classic rock covers.

4 pm

KARAOKE NIGHT

Boxcar

133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222

Crash Romeo hosts karaoke.

7 pm

SUNDARTA

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

Tunes from Santa Fe’s singer-songwriter sweetheart.

8-10 pm

FLIPTURN

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Indie music for endless summers, sun-streaked days and introspective nights. Sold out for now, but keep checking your favorite ticket websites!

9 pm

THEATER

BORN WITH TEETH

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

Two poets—Kit Marlowe and Will Shakespeare—navigate the perils of art under a totalitarian regime, and flirt like men with everything to lose.

7:30 pm, $30-$60

THU/14

BOOKS/LECTURES

BYWAYS

Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678

Celebrate the legacy of cinematographer and photographer Roger Deakins with a book signing and conversation with both Roger and James Deakins, moderated by Bill Shapiro, the founding editor of LIFE.com. 4-6 pm

DANCE

POMEGRANATE SEEDS YOUTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

Pomegranate Studio

535 Cerrillos Road, (505) 501-2142

An after-school dance program. 5-7 pm

EVENTS

ARTIST THINK TANK:

Santa Fe Business Incubator

3900 Paseo del Sol, (505) 424-1140

An open table discussion with local artist Pi Luna about the stories behind both her and others’ art.

9-10 am, $10

LADIES NIGHT

Boxcar

133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222

Ladies get free entry, $5 for everyone else every Thursday. Weekly guest DJs perform. 10 pm

PRIDE AFTER 5

The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663

Engage in dynamic discussions with the LGBTQ community. 5-7 pm

FILM

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678

Based on the book by Cormac McCarthy, a hunter cannot resist the cash left behind at a grisly drug deal and is hunted when a killer picks up his trail. 6 pm, $16

FOOD

CHEF BRENT SUSHI POP UP Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135

Chef Brent Jung rolls the freshest, tastiest sushi to order. 5-9 pm

MUSIC

BINGO DANCE PARTY

The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663

Free bingo and a dance party with DJ Dynamite Sol. 7-11 pm, $0-$10

DAVID GEIST MUSIC

EXPERIENCE

Osteria D’Assisi

58 S Federal Place, (505) 986-5858

A Tony-winning pianist plays Broadway, pop and originals. 7-10 pm, $5

GOOD TROY EDWARD

Cowgirl

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

Traveling country rock jams. 4 pm

MIKE MONTIEL TRIO

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

Rock and blues jams. 7 pm

Roger Deakins’ Byways exhibit at Obscura Gallery includes notable photographs of his travels throughout the years, such as Scotland in the above “Judis chair” photograph.

MONSOON

As Above So Below Distillery

545 Camino de la Familia, (505) 916-8596

A contemporary trio plays rock, blues and soul.

8-10:30 pm

REPURPOSED VIBE

Nuckolls Brewing Co.

1611 Alcaldesa St., nuckollsbrewing.com

An electro-acoustic duo performs familiar tunes from Johnny Cash to Billie Eilish.

5-7 pm

THEATER

OR, Santa Fe Playhouse

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

The 1660s look a lot like the 1960s in this neo-Restoration comedy about the life of Aphra Behn: poet, spy and first professional female playwright.

7:30 pm, $30-$60

TRI-M PRESENTS: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

New Mexico Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533

A musical about the romantic lives of couples, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

7 pm, $30-$50

FRI/15

ART OPENINGS

ALEX KATZ + DAMIEN HIRST (OPENING)

Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road, (505) 988-3888

Two artists’ floral prints. Katz’s original prints use his signature abstract expressionism, and Hirst’s prints radiate with the beauty of cherry blossoms.

5-7 pm

ANNELL LIVINGSTON: LIGHTS SHADOWS

REFLECTIONS (OPENING)

Winterowd Fine Art 701 Canyon Road, (505) 992-8878

Livingston’s meticulous, hardedged, gridded paintings set her apart in a digital age dominated by precision.

5-7 pm

DANIEL JOHNSTON: NOW IS NOWHERE ELSE (OPENING)

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

Contemporary pottery artist Johnston presents an exhibition of clay brick works.

5-7 pm

HOHIMER, WILSON AND WINTER (OPENING)

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

Exhibitions of woven paintings from Elizabeth Hohimer, wood carvings from Randall Wilson and jazz-inspired paintings by Roger Winter.

5-7 pm

LEO GONZALES: SUMMONINGS (OPENING)

Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave., (505) 557-9574

Gonzales’s love for Japanese mythology, the bio-mechanical tattoo aesthetic and works of fantasy and horror culminate in a post-apocalyptic vision within intricately crafted oil paintings. (See SFR Picks, page 17.)

5-8 pm

ROGER DEAKINS: BYWAYS (OPENING)

Obscura Gallery

225 Delgado St., (505) 577-6708

A photographic exhibition by cinematographer Deakins. 4-7 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES

BEYOND THE RIO GILA

Santa Fe Public Library (Main Branch)

145 Washington Ave., (505) 955-6780

Author Scott G. Hibbard presents on his historical novel about the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican-American War. 4-5 pm

POCKET DOG: JIM GARLAND

Purple Fern Bookstore

7 Avenida Vista Grande, Ste. D-5, (505) 382-8711

Explore the meaning of love at a reading and book-signing with the indelible author of Pocket Dog, Jim Garland.   6 pm

DANCE

EL FLAMENCO CABARET

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

Award-winning, international flamenco performers.  6:15 pm, $25-$48

FOOD

FISH FRIDAY SPECIAL

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

Unique fish specials every Friday throughout Lent. 5-9 pm

MUSIC

ALASDAIR FRASER & NATALIE HAAS

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

A collaboration between fiddler Fraser and cellist Haas spans from intimate chamber music to ecstatic dance energy..  7:30 pm, $22-$38

BAD BUNNY & FUERZA

REGIDA NIGHT Boxcar

133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222

An electrifying night with DJ DMonic for Fuerza Regida and Bad Bunny Night! 10 pm, $10

BLUEBIRD CAFE SONGWRITERS CONCERT SERIES

Bishop’s Lodge 1297 Bishops Lodge Road, (888) 741-0480

Covers sung by Victoria Banks, Phil Barton and Emily Shackleton.

5-9 pm, $75-$195

BRINGER, THEO KRANTZ AND JOHNNY BELL

Lost Padre Records

131 W Water St. Ste. B, (505) 310-6389

An unlikely triumvirate of rock band Bringer, electronic artist Theo Krantz and singer-songwriter Johnny Bell.

7 pm

CHARLES TICHENOR

Los Magueyes

Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

Well-crafted piano tunes.  6-9 pm

DJ ABILITIES

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135

DJ Abilities’ set is in his signature style: scratch heavy, full of original remixes and mash ups and paired with a VJ set he curated and edited himself.

7:30 pm, $15

DK & THE AFFORDABLES

Cowgirl

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

A go-to act for Northern New Mexico Entertainment, DK & The Affordables kick out a jiving, jumping variety of roots music to get you moving  Noon-3 pm

DETH RALI

The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663

A blend of synth-based dream pop and prog metal, supported by the enchanting Lyra Muse. 8 pm

LORI OTTINO AND ERIK

SAWYER

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

Classic Americana.  5 pm

RUDY BOY EXPERIMENT

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

Bluesy tunes.

8 pm

SANTA FE OPERA

GUILD PRESENTS: DER

ROSENKAVALIER

Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe 107 W Barcelona Road, (505) 982-9674

Presenter Desirée Mays lectures on the collaboration between Viennese poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Bavarian musician Richard Strauss with musical examples, including an old-fashioned Viennese waltz. Register online at bit. ly/49abUhB. 6-7:30 pm

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TGIF CONCERT SERIES: HIGH DESERT SAXOPHONES AND PEGGY ABBOTT

First Presbyterian Church

208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544

The High Desert Saxophones and pianist Peggy Abbott perform a recital.

5:30 pm

TANSY WINE

Paradiso

903 Early St., (505) 577-5248

Tansy Wine knits a vibrant musical landscape with a blend of jazz and art music.

7-10 pm, $10-$20

TERRY DIERS

Boxcar

133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222

Blues, rock and funk tunes.

6-8 pm

THEATER

BORN WITH TEETH

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

Two poets—Kit Marlowe and Will Shakespeare—navigate the perils of art under a totalitarian regime, and flirt like men with everything to lose.

7:30 pm, $30-$60

CARPE LAFFUM: IDES OF MARCH IMPROV COMEDY

Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive, Ste. A Troupes Smoke and Crepes and Sibling Rivalry perform.

7:30 pm, $10

JAYSON: AN IMMERSIVE TRAGEDY OF GREEK PROPORTIONS

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

Witness the rise and fall of aspiring singer Jayson Stone in this immersive experience where fame, fortune and fate intertwine. Advanced registration required.

7:30 pm

TRI-M PRESENTS: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

New Mexico Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533

A musical about the romantic lives of couples, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.  7 pm, $30-$50

WORKSHOP

FINE ART FRIDAY

Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359

Celebrate Irish heritage by learning about and creating your own page of Celtic-style illuminated text. 2-4 pm

PYSANKY FAMILY PROGRAM

Santa Fe Public Library (Southside)

6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

Dye and decorate eggs through an Eastern European wax resist process, a folk art tradition known as pysanky.  3-5 pm

SAT/16

ART OPENINGS

MADELIN COIT & MARGARET

FITZGERALD

Pie Projects

924B Shoofly St., (505) 372-7681

The work of Coit and Fitzgerald draw on urban language with graffiti and neon lights.  4-6 pm

NOT A FOOL

Cafe Pasqual’s Gallery 103 E Water St., 2nd Floor, (505) 983-9340

A striking series of multimedia paintings that celebrate the Ocotillo succulent plant. 1-4 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES

KIDS’ STORYTIME

Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226

Story hour with kids ages 0-4. 10:30 am

KARL LAUMBACH:

ANCESTORS ON THE SANTA FE TRAIL Santa Fe Public Library (Southside) 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

Laumbach shares stories of his ancestors on the Santa Fe Trail. 1:30 pm

LEN SCHREINER & JODI

RENEE LANG READING

Geronimo’s Books 3018 Cielo Court, Ste. D, (505) 467-8315

Spiritual healing with authors Schreiner and Lang. 4-5 pm

SLOW TRAVEL WITH JUDITH

FEIN AND PAUL ROSS

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

Travel journalists Fein and Ross share their travel experiences. 1 pm

DANCE

EL FLAMENCO CABARET

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

A Flamenco extravaganza.  6:15 pm, $25-$48

EVENTS

EL MERCADO DE EL MUSEO CULTURAL

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

More than 50 vendors sell art, jewelry, textiles and more.  10 am-4 pm

SANTA FE AIRPORT TERMINAL EXPANSION

SNEAK PEEK

Santa Fe Regional Airport 121 Aviation Drive, (505) 955-2900

A sneak peek of the new Santa Fe Regional Airport Terminal expansion, with entertainment and refreshments.

10 am-noon

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SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

West Casitas in the Santa Fe Railyard Market Street, (505) 414-8544

Local juried artists sell fine art. 9 am-2 pm

FILM

HENRY GLASSIE: FIELD WORK Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204

A screening of Henry Glassie: Field Work, a portrait of the celebrated folklorist and ethnologist. A Q&A follows.  2:30-4:30 pm

MUSIC

ANI D’CHOIR Mad Contemporary Gallery and Art Center 3 Firehouse Lane, Madrid, (505) 603-5225

An Ani DiFranco singing group. Email: madcontemporary22@ gmail.com for more info. 4:30-6 pm

BOB MAUS BLUES & SOUL Inn & Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 988-5531

Maus plays classic tune-smiths. 6-9 pm

CHARLES TICHENOR

Los Magueyes

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

A well-crafted kaleidoscope of piano tunes and lyrics.  6-9 pm

DETH RALI

The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663

A blend of synth-based dream pop and prog metal. 8 pm

JOHN RANGEL

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio 652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090

A jazz musician, composer and producer takes the stage. 2-5 pm

JOHNNY LLOYD

Nuckolls Brewing Co.

1611 Alcaldesa St., nuckollsbrewing.com

Country favorites.

4-6 pm

KING SAISON

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

An eclectic jam band.

8 pm

KYLE WATSON

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Watson carves a space out of the global house scene for his own brand of house music, blending captivating bass lines and chunky drums.

10 pm, $30-$35

LENSIC PRESENTS LÚNASA

Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the hottest Irish acoustic group.

7:30 pm, $25-$49

LILI ST ANNE & LUKE BERN

CARR

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Art folk singer-songwriter Lili St Anne performs alongside multi-instrumentalist Carr.

8:30-10:30 pm

MYSTIC VIC

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Classic rock and the blues.

3 pm

NOSOTROS VIDEO PREMIERE

PARTY

Violet Crown Cinema

1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678

Nosotros performs live and releases two new songs via music video.

7-8:30 pm, $25

PISCES PARTY FEAT. BACON & FEATHERICCI

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

A zodiac-themed dance party featuring DJ Bacon’s house and techno jams and an  exuberant performance from Feathericci. (See SFR Picks, page 17.)

8-11 pm

QUEEN BEE

Cowgirl

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

Acoustic delights.

Noon

RUDY BOY EXPERIMENT

Cowgirl

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

Bluesy tunes.

8 pm

SQUIRRELHEAD CHOMP Food Hall

505 Cerrillos Road, Ste. B-101, chompsantafe.com

Sway to an eclectic mix of punk-ish, funk-ish and rock-ish sounds.

7-9 pm

THE JOHN FUNKHOUSER

BOSTON TRIO Paradiso 903 Early St., (505) 577-5248

Jazz that spans from South Africa to New Orleans.  7 pm, $30-$35

THE PULSE JAZZ TRIO

Social Kitchen + Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952

Latin- and funk-influenced jazz.  6-9 pm

THEATER

BORN WITH TEETH

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

Marlowe and Shakespeare navigate the perils of art under a totalitarian regime.  2 pm, $30-$60

JAYSON: AN IMMERSIVE TRAGEDY OF GREEK PROPORTIONS

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

Exodus Ensemble presents the rise and fall of singer Jayson Stone in this immersive experience where fame, fortune and fate intertwine. 7:30 pm

OR, Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., (505) 988-4262

A neo-Restoration comedy about the life of Aphra Behn: poet, spy and first professional female playwright.  7:30 pm, $30-$60

TRI-M PRESENTS: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533

A musical about the romantic lives of several couples, with music by Stephen Sondheim.  7 pm, $30-$50

WORKSHOP

IN-PERSON BREAKTHROUGH POETRY WORKSHOP

Janna Lopez Writing Studio 2088 Paseo Primero, (505) 230-0683

A deep-dive poetry retreat with local poet Janna Lopez.

9 am-5 pm, $187

MOON TIME: LEARNING TO READ A LUNAR CALENDAR

Prana Blessings 1925 Rosina St., Ste. C, (505) 772-0171

Decode the secrets of the lunar calendar. RSVP required. Noon-1:30 pm, $35

SUN/17

BOOKS/LECTURES

ERICA ELLIOT: FROM MOUNTAINS TO MEDICINE Garcia Street Books

376 Garcia St., (505) 986-0151

Elliott discusses the story of her mind-bending and heart-opening journey of self-discovery. 4:30 pm

FOLK ART: CONTINUITY AND CREATIVITY

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

Talks on folk art by two scholars and co-authors of Folk Art: Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian, Pravina Shukla and Henry Glassie. 2-4 pm

LEICAS & SCOTCH: GABRIELLA MARKS

Edition ONE Gallery

728 Canyon Road, (505) 570-5385

A monthly series of conversations with photographers offering insights into practice, projects, techniques and inspiration. (See SFR Picks, page 17.) 3-5 pm

RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET

Farmers’ Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta

About 40 local painters, potters, jewelers, weavers and more. 10 am-3 pm

MUSIC

ALBUQUERQUE & FOUR CORNERS PIPES AND DRUMS

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

A bagpipe and drum band gets festive for St. Paddy’s.

3 pm

GERRY CARTHY & FRIENDS

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Irish instrumentalist Carthy performs Celtic folk tunes.

7 pm

GLORIETA PINES: A ST. PADDY’S CELEBRATION

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135

An Irish jig gig with polkas and sea shanties. Kids get in free. (See SFR Picks, page 17.)

5-8 pm, $10

KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar

133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222

Crash Romeo hosts karaoke. 7 pm

MAD JAM

Mad Contemporary Gallery and Art Center 3 Firehouse Lane, Madrid, (505) 603-5225

Perform songs with friends. 4:30 pm

REVELRY AND REVERENCE

DANCE

BASIC SWING DANCE CLASS

Dance Station (Solana Center) 947-B W Alameda St., (505) 989-9788

Learn to swing dance. RSVP first. 5:30-6:15 pm, $15-$20

SANTA FE SCENIC PRESENTS NATIVE AMERICAN DANCE

Santa Fe Depot 430 W Manhattan Ave., (844) 743-3759

Ride the Santa Fe Scenic and enjoy a performance by the Avanyu Mountain Dance Group. 1:30 pm, $125-$164

EVENTS

EL MERCADO DE EL MUSEO

CULTURAL

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

Vendors sell arts and crafts.  10 am-4 pm

KINGDOM DRAG KING

BRUNCH: ST PATRICKS DAY!

The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663

A Drag King Brunch celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, featuring DJ Baby D, emcee Rori the Rebel, and all your favorite kings.

11 am-2 pm, $10-$120

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

Concordia Santa Fe Wind Orchestra’s 40-member ensemble performs. 2 pm

SHLOMIT AND REBBESOUL

Temple Beth Shalom

205 E Barcelona Road, (505) 982-1376

This musical duo brings an innovative twist to traditional music. 4 pm, $7-$20

SILVER SKY BLUES BAND Cowgirl

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

Rock out to the blues!

Noon

ST. PADDY’S PUNK ROCK PARTY

Cake’s Cafe

227 Galisteo St., (505) 303-4880

Loud music and green libations. Featuring Titmaüs, Chi Chi Les Fleurs and City of my Death. 5-10 pm, $15

TANSY WINE

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

A vibrant musical landscape blending jazz and art music. 7-9 pm

Roger Winter ‘s Jazz Set exhibition at Gerald Peters Contemporary honor the energy and culture of jazz music with collage-like paintings that offer the same sense of improvisation and individualism of the genre.

COURTESY GERALD PETERS CONTEMPORARY

with Writer Miriam Sagan

speculative fiction, the latter being fiction that depicts a world or events that doesn’t exist, but could, given current conditions. Does Commune of the Golden Sun fit into that category, or do you see it as more encompassing of other genres?

I think it’s pretty obviously speculative fiction, but I think of it as being a little bit like magical realism as well. [Isak] Dinesen and [Jorge Luis] Borges was what I was reading big chunks of when I was writing it. There’s Narnia: We go through the wardrobe into the other worlds, right? This is proposing it’s one world, but it really is two worlds; the magical worlds are sealed off. We do come and go from a variety of magical worlds: the Commune, Blue Arrow and, essentially, the sense of being split in two. I’d say the real world is place A: Albuquerque, and then there’s a bunch of place Bs. So it definitely falls into what Atwood says, but it also has some freedom of motion that you find from [Italo] Calvino, where you basically you do whatever the heck you want, because it’s like a fairy tale or a fable.

Maira has a line in the story that also appears on the back of the book: ‘No one can see the future. Sometimes I think I can’t even really see the past.’ Why is that emphasized?

The dystopian future in Miriam Sagan’s new novella Commune of the Golden Sun (Cholla Needles, 2024) takes place in familiar terrain—Albuquerque and thereabouts—rendering a not-so-distant future—2026-2066—in which civil war and climate change have made for a hardscrabble existence. Yet while the novella evokes 1970s feminist sci-fi authors such as Marge Piercy (Women on the Edge of Time) and Joanna Russ (The Female Man), it nods equally to folkloric tradition and Buddhist koan. Ultimately, Sagan weaves together through multiple points of view an intergenerational love story in which relationships transcend time and space (literally), as a group of young survivors leave the New Mexico commune in which they were raised to explore the world they had been told no longer existed. Sagan wrote the book over the course of four years—in part during the COVID-19 lockdowns—in what she describes as “the world’s longest process.”

Author of more than 30 books of poetry, memoir and fiction, Sagan founded the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College and directed it until her retirement. She will read from her novella at 5:30 pm, March 19, in an online event, “Leaving Utopia: A Reading and Discussion with Miriam Sagan,” which will include writing tips for approaching the short novel, writing through difficult times and more (register at tinyurl.com/ saganevent). We asked for one of those tips in advance, which she supplied: “Conflict is inherent in our relationships, whether we admit it or not. If you want psychological realism, even in a world that’s not that realistic, you don’t have to add conflict, or devise conflict: You have to put things and people next to each other and see what the conflict is.”

The following interview has been edited for space and concision. (Julia Goldberg)

Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin had a debate years ago about the difference between science fiction and

The book is a lot about competing views. You know: ‘I love you. You didn’t love me. No, you never loved me.’ That kind of thing. ‘You’re a tyrant/ No, I was a darling sweet grandmother.’ We can’t know what’s going on in terms of our lineage, but we’re also trapped in it and therefore kind of compelled to try to understand it. And that understanding is always going to be imperfect, which is why it’s changing as things go. I mean, for example, Emi thinks her mother has abandoned her, but her mother is desperately trying to get to her, so everything changes in a second.

In real life, you’re half of a mother/ daughter creative team Maternal Mitochondria, with Isabel WinsonSagan. Is there something about intergenerational relationships that you think is particularly important in the political climate that shadows this book?

I think it might be an attempt to reclaim the family from a right-wing discourse about what family is. I do think maternal lineage, since I’m a woman, is very, very important, and who your ancestors are is very important to you, and something that gives you power and security, a place in the world. The notion of family has become so reactionary; it’s as if we have to choose between this reactionary patriarchal construct and loneliness. There’s a lot of people in this book who are on murky terms with each other, but they are there for each other.

MATT MORROW

THE BOHEMIACS!

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090

Violin and accordion make your toes tap with their tunes.  2-5 pm

THE SANTA FE SYMPHONY: ITALIAN NIGHTS

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

Italian overtures and symphonies by violist Kimberly Fredenburgh.

4 pm, $25-$92

THEATER

JAYSON: AN IMMERSIVE TRAGEDY OF GREEK

PROPORTIONS

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

Witness the rise and fall of singer Jayson Stone in this immersive experience where fame, fortune and fate intertwine.

7:30 pm

OR, Santa Fe Playhouse

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

A neo-Restoration comedy about the life of Aphra Behn: poet, spy and first professional female playwright.

2 pm, $30-$60

TRI-M PRESENTS: A LITTLE

NIGHT MUSIC

New Mexico Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533

A musical about the romantic lives of several couples, with music by Stephen Sondheim.  2 pm, $30-$50

WORKSHOP

HAMENTASHEN BAKE AND KABBALAH OF PURIM CLASS

Santa Fe Jewish Center Chabad 230 W Manhattan Ave., (505) 983-2000

Learn to make hamentashen cookies and learn about the Kabbalistic meaning of Purim. 10:30 am-noon, $15

MON/18

BOOKS/LECTURES

ANDREW GULLIFORD:

LANDSCAPE OF REFUGE AND RESISTANCE

Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 982-1200

A lecture from a professor widely known for teaching about wilderness, national parks, Western and environmental history.  6 pm, $20

DANCE

MONDAY NIGHT SWING

Odd Fellows Hall

1125 Cerrillos Road, (505) 690-4165

A swing dance class and a social dance. 7 pm, $5-$10

MUSIC

DEAP VALLY AND DEATH VALLEY GIRLS

Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

LA punk duo says farewell on this tour with punk rock legends Death Valley Girls.  7 pm, $22-$97

JOBI RICCIO

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

An intimate country and Americana performance. 8-9 pm

SMOKING TOAD

Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St., (505) 982-8474

A unique blend of rock, blues and R&B.  7 pm

THEATER

YOUNG CREATORS PROJECT

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

Teaching theater skills to kids aged 9-16. 3:45-5:30 pm

WORKSHOP

SPRING SESSHIN MEDITATION RETREAT

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

A week-long Sesshin meditation retreat.  6 am-8:30 pm, $175-$999

TUE/19

BOOKS/LECTURES

LEAVING UTOPIA: A READING AND DISCUSSION WITH MIRIAM SAGAN

Online

Sagan reads and discusses her novella, Commune of the Golden Sun, where protagonists leave the commune they were raised in and search for a world they’ve been told is gone. Register online at bit.ly/3uD5dWT. (See 3 Questions, page 22.)

5:30 pm

SOLAR ECLIPSE: MICHAEL ZEILER

Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., (505) 428-1000

Eclipse-chasing geographer and cartographer Michael Zeiler presents on the April eclipse. Pre-register at bit.ly/4bU7de1. 5:30 pm, $25

MUSIC

BAILEN

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Indie-pop trio BAILEN’s new album wrestles with an uncertain future where ethics and morality constantly shift. 7 pm, $15-$25

THE CALENDAR

KRONOS QUARTET

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

Bow-bending sonic experimentation.  7:30 pm, $35-$115

LATIN SINDUSTRY NIGHT

Boxcar

133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222

Music with DJ DMonic and 10% off for service industry workers.

10 pm

LOS DESPERADOS

Cowgirl

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

Hard rockin’ boogie and blues.

4 pm

THE DOWNTOWN BLUES JAM

Evangelo’s

200 W San Francisco St., (505) 982-9014

Live blues music hosted by Brotha Love & The Blueristocrats. 8:30-11:30 pm

THEATER

JAYSON: AN IMMERSIVE TRAGEDY OF GREEK PROPORTIONS

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

Witness the rise and fall of singer Jayson Stone in this immersive experience where fame, fortune and fate intertwine.  7:30 pm

WORKSHOP

UNDERSTANDING YOUR MIND - DEVELOPING CONCENTRATION

Santa Fe Women’s Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 983-9455

Participants learn how to identify and use five special parts of their minds. This session’s topic is: “Learning not to forget: improving mindfulness.” 6-7:30 pm

ONGOING

ART

5TH ANNUAL FOTO FORUM MEMBERS SHOW

Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 470-2582

More than 60 original photos from Foto Forum members.

A TENUOUS THREAD

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 216-1256

Bhakti Ziek unravels a 1,470year textile history with masterful weaving that encapsulates a lifetime dedication to fiber work.

AN INNOCENT LOVE: ANIMAL SCULPTURE ARTISTS OF NEW MEXICO

Canyon Road Contemporary Art 622 Canyon Road, (505) 983-0433

The cutest little animal sculptures you ever did see.

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ANDREW DASBURG:

SYMPHONIC DRAWINGS

Addison Rowe Gallery

229 E Marcy St., (505) 982-1533

Cubist artist Dasburg's landscape works from 1930s Taos.

ARTURO HERRERA: YOU ARE

HERE

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-1199

Wall paintings, collage works, felt sculptures and glass.

ASHTON THORNHILL:

REFLECTIVE LIGHT

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, (505) 466-7323

Thornhill's work captures the beauty of the Southwest.

BLASFEMME: A REVERENCE FOR RENEGADES

Turner Carroll Gallery

725 Canyon Road, (505) 986-9800

A homage to the legacy of women who have dared to be “blasphemous.”

BROOKS WILLIAMS, TRANSCENDENT FIELDS

Aurelia Gallery 414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915

Works on paper, aluminum and lenticular.

CARMEN HERRERA: I'M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU?

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-1199

Later works by abstract minimalist artist Herrera.

CONTEMPORARY NATIVE

ART

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St., (505) 954-9902

Pueblo pottery, glass sculpture, jewelry and paintings.

I SAY WITH MY FULL ESSENCE

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

Seven women artists uniquely address individual histories.

INTERSECTING LIFETIMES

Strata Gallery

125 Lincoln Avenue, Ste. 105, (505) 780-5403

Keanu Jones (Diné) examines the intersecting of lifetimes in digital collages.

JAY BAILEY: EAST OF THE SIERRAS

Evoke Contemporary 550 S Guadalupe St., (505) 995-9902

Paintings and drawings unique to the American West.

JOHN DETWEILER PAINTINGS

Guadalupe Center 333 Montezuma Ave., (505) 310-8440

This show raises questions regarding the social and private impact of our new media-dominated world.

KATHERINE PORTER: BRILLIANCE OF SPONTANEITY UNTAMED

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250

Abstract paintings.

LOUISA MCELWAIN: DISTANT THUNDER

Evoke Contemporary

550 S Guadalupe St., (505) 995-9902

Bold paintings of the Southwest.

MARTIN FERREYRA: DIOSES Y GUERREROS

Hecho a Mano

129 W Palace Ave., (505) 916-1341

Works influenced by Aztec warriors and Oaxacan communities.

MINOL ARAKI: WHERE BEAUTY DWELLS

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250

An exhibition celebrating an accomplished ink painter in the ancient literati tradition.

RANDALL WILSON: EARTH AND SKY

Gerald Peters Contemporary

1011 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700

Wood carvings anchored in Southwest folk-art tradition.

ROGER EVANS: CREATURE COMFORT

Wild Hearts Gallery

221 B Hwy. 165, Placitas, (505) 867-2450

Evans's caricatured animals poke fun at the social order.

SPRING DREAM

Hecho a Mano

129 W Palace Ave., (505) 916-1341

Inhabit the subconscious sphere, both personal and collective.

SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE

Or, & Born With Teeth

Two plays by Liz Duffy Adams

Directed by Zoe Burke & Antonio Miniño

March 6 - 31, 2024

SUE LLEWELLYN: A RETROSPECTIVE

Susan Eddings Pérez Galley

717 Canyon Road, (505) 477-4ART

Illustrator Llewellyn's early sketches + recent whimsicalities.

THE MOVIES

Monroe Gallery of Photography

112 Don Gaspar Ave., (505) 992-0800

This exhibition features photographs from classic films of the 20th century.

THE MANY FACES OF...

ROBERT DAUGHTERS

Meyer Gallery

225 Canyon Road, (505) 983-1434

A figurative retrospective on the late landscape artist Daughters.

TIM REED: SILLY LOVE SONGS

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Original) 1600 Lena St., (505) 428-0996

Reed's psychedelic multimedia works, with more on display at Iconik's Red and Lupe locations.

TRACY ROBINSON: BRUSH AND BEYOND

Alberto Zalma Art Shop 407 S Guadalupe St., albertozalmaart.com

Eclectic mixed media art.

TRADING FACES

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 222 Delgado St., (928) 308-0319

Michael Godey presents all-new paintings, drawings and prints.

WOMEN SPIRIT 2024

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

Celebrating the gallery's women artists with fine art, fiber art, jewelry and weavings.

WONDER

Santa Fe Public Library

145 Washington Ave., (505) 955-2839

Colorful, Southwest-inspired landscapes and portraits.

ZOZOBRA ART CONTEST

Boys & Girls Club - Zona del Sol 6600 Valentine Way, (505) 474-0385

Submit your artwork to a contest to design posters and T-shirts at the 100th Burning of Zozobra. Deadline is April 5 at 5 pm. For more info, email art@ burnzozobra.com.

MUSEUMS

KELLEN HOPE THE CALENDAR

MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART, GIFT OF HENRY ROBERTSON IN MEMORY OF POLLY ROBERTSON, A.1988.13.1V /PHOTOGRAPHY BY

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM

217 Johnson St., (505) 946-1000

Making a Life. Rooted in Place.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, $20 (under 18 free)

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY

NATIVE ARTS

108 Cathedral Place, (505) 983-8900

Womb of the Earth: Cosmovision of the Rainforest. Inuk Silis Høegh: Arctic Vertigo. Indigenous Presence, Indigenous Futures. The Stories We Carry. Our Stories.

10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon

11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10

Free Admission every Friday

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART

18 County Road 55A, (505) 424-6487

Permanent collection.

11 am-5 pm, Fri-Sun, $10 (18 and under free)

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE

710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269

Down Home. Here, Now and Always. Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles.

10 am-5 pm, $7-$12, NM residents free first Sunday of the month

MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL

FOLK ART

706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204

Ghhúunayúkata / To Keep

Them Warm: The Alaska Native Parka. La Cartonería Mexicana

/ The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste. Protection: Adaptation and Resistance. Multiple Visions: A Common Bond.

10 am-5 pm, $3-$12, NM residents free first Sunday of the month

NEW MEXICO HISTORY

MUSEUM

113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200

The Santos of New Mexico. Miguel Trujillo and the Pursuit of Native Voting Rights. EnchantOrama! New Mexico Magazine Celebrates 100. Silver and Stones: Collaborations in Southwest Jewelry.

10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri. of the month

MUSEUM OF SPANISH

COLONIAL ART

750 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-2226

Lowrider Bike Club. Generations of Imagination: What Lies Behind the Vision of Chimayo Weavers.

1 -4 pm, Wed-Fri, $10, children free

NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART

107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5063

Selections from the 20th Century Collection. Out West: Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Southwest 1900-1969. To Make, Unmake, and Make Again. Ways of Seeing: Four Photography Collections. 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm every Fri. May-Oct.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER

78 Cities of Gold Road, (505) 455-5041

Di Wae Powa. Nah Poeh Meng. 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, $7-$10

VLADEM CONTEMPORARY

404 Montezuma Ave., (505) 476-5602

Shadow and Light

10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm every Fri. May-Oct.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

704 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-4636

Masterglass: The Collaborative Spirit of Tony Jojola. Pathfinder: 40 Years of Marcus Amerman. Journeying Through the Archives of the Wheelwright Museum. 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $10

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

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Nü Kids on the Block

Nü Walkers art collective calls for the return of play, silliness

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

What a math PhD, a Santa Fe Opera communications professional, a fine dining restaurant manager, a clown and a travel/whitewater rafting guide have in common, at least insofar as creating art and performance pieces goes, is kind of a hard question to answer.

In the case of fledgling Santa Fe arts and performance collective Nü Walkers Global/ Local, the core ethos and connective tissue seems to be rooted in silliness—and make no mistake, friends, the folks behind Nü Walkers are certainly silly. But rather than some sort of directionless, shiftless, pointless bit of amateur buffoonery, the group’s core tenets (a return to play, a desire to perform, the demystification of what we might call anti-Brechtian über-seriousness in the arts and total commitment to the bit) are more in league with Monty Python than they are with forced eccentricity. What do they have in common? For starters, they’re all on the same page.

“We connected at an art gallery on Canyon Road on a Tuesday night,” says co-founder Marissa Aurora, the SFO pro. “It kind of happened organically on the dance floor. We connected through movement; we all started doing these ‘nü walks.’”

What is a nü walk, you might be wondering? Well, it’s part movement exercise, according to Aurora; a practice of moving for-

ward through whatever means compel you. This can be strange or simple, but the idea is that it’s creative. Think Python’s “Ministry of Silly Walks” sketch, though rather than meticulously plotted absurdity, Nü Walkers takes an in-the-moment tack. Thus far in Santa Fe, this has been most publicly observable at the group’s 10 Person in a Trench Coat performance at Wise Fool New Mexico some weeks ago. Which brings us to the clown— Kristen Woods, the co-executive director of Wise Fool.

“Point number one is that a lot of stuff is not fun…and silliness and fun are really important in achieving the business acumen we’re looking for,” she tells SFR. “As a circus artist, I maintain that a lot of things can be good but not fun.”

“There are things that are good, things that are fun and things that can be sort of anywhere on the spectrum—like going to see a Bach concerto, which is good, but it’s not any fun,” explains Nü Walkers co-founder Derek Desantis, the math guy. “The only thing we care about not being is in the not fun/not good category. We’ll do anything outside of that category.”

Anything?

“Part of our last performance included a kind of ritualistic cult ceremony,” adds co-founder Cedar Elford-White, the restaurant manager. “That was really for us. For the audience…I don’t know that it was fun for them.”

As text doesn’t convey tone well, let it be known that Elford-White is joking. Mostly. The thing is, Nü Walkers practically demands buy-in from an audience as well. Take 10 Person in a Trench Coat, which literally was

an attempt to embody the old cartoon trope of a number of kids posing as a singular adult by stacking up inside a trench coat. Perhaps perplexing to the audience, as all Nü Walkers performances could very well be, the event sort of paradoxically required the watchers to let go and get engaged.

“Because it’s a state of being,” notes co-founder John Michael Hailey. “No moment is too small or too normal to make un-normal. If we’re not having fun…though we’re not saying life always has to be fun. Searching for the opportunities is the number one goal.”

OK, but does this answer what Nü Walkers actually is? Perhaps not, though knowing that seems impossible. This is the group that worked out the math for how many hot dogs in buns could fit inside each cubic square foot of the Rio Grande at its maximum flow. This is the group of previously unconnected people who somehow started dancing together at a sparsely attended gallery opening, then turned that chance meeting into a nebulous movement.

“It’s very adjacent to acting,” Elford-White says by way of an explanation.

“This is part of the challenge,” Desantis continues. “It’s like, how do you describe what we like to do? Historically, we’ve all been to great parties with a fun DJ where people dance. After you’ve done that a bunch of times, it’s not memorable. We want to make it memorable.”

So while there’s no specific answers as to how or when the collaborative buffoonery of Nü Walkers might pop up—though the group does promise it’ll have a little something this summer—chances are, if you’re into the concept of play, you might jive with the whole Nü Walkers gestalt.

“Spontaneous creativity,” Hailey concludes. “I’ve been a part of many creative endeavors, but never have I laughed as hard as I do with this crew.”

A ringing endorsement if ever there were one. Follow @nuwalkersglobal on Instagram or email nuwalkersglobal@gmail.com to get involved yourself or simply learn more.

For Nüwalkers Local/Global, it’s all about spontaneous creativity.

COURTESY NÜ WALKERS

New Times Two

Breakfast and dinner— St. Mike’s corridor style

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Though no one was particularly excited when Midtown eatery Loyal Hound closed its doors last year, no one—at least in my own sphere—was particularly shocked or saddened. The pandemic made fools of us all, and some places simply couldn’t weather the storm.

Second Street Brewery closing its flagship location on its namesake street in 2022 after 20-ish years, however, was a bit of a gut-punch, both because everyone just kind of liked the place and because it had been there forever. Its closure felt almost like a certain type of punctuation mark; another sad change to the Santa Fe locally-owned business-scape that highlighted how rapidly things seem to be changing around here.

In both cases, though, local diners ought to feel a little relief: With Casa Solana Mexican/ New Mexican joint Valentina’s opening a second location in the old Loyal Hound and freshly-minted Casa Bonita taking over the old Second Street, it would at least appear that the Santa Fe restaurant scene continues to be most enticing outside of downtown. So, naturally, I visited both on the same day to get the lay of the land.

We began with breakfast at Casa Bonita (1814 Second St., (505) 365-2172), where a quartet of new and familiar faces have transformed the once beer-and-music-soaked paradise (that’s meant in a good way) into a bright and cheerful all-day affair. Opened just recently by Luis Ortiz, formerly of La Fogata Grill and currently also of La Piña Loka food truck; alongside the New Baking Co.’s Filiberto Ortiz; Andale Taqueria’s Geraldo Rodriguez; and ownership newcomer/manager Mayra Gonzales, Casa Bonita heralds not just great news for people who work in the area (like the SFR staff)—it’s great news for people who want breakfast all day.

The menu is packed with both expected dishes—breakfast burritos and tortilla burgers ($11.99; $15.25), stuffed sopaipillas and huevos rancheros ($14.99; $12.99)—plus a number of items that might come as a surprise, such as chicken fried steak with eggs ($16.99); and a Navajo taco ($14.50); plus an array of salads ($9.25-$13.95); liver and on-

ions ($14.25); breakfast items like waffles/ pancakes/French toast (8.25-$12.99); and dinner items served after 2:30 pm, such as pastas, ribs, schnitzel and…dang, this menu is pretty huge.

OK, so maybe some of those items aren’t shocking, but how many times have you been someplace that isn’t Denny’s with friends when one person wanted a burger while another person wanted French toast, and how often were you able to make that work?

In fact, my dining companion was so pumped at the prospect of a chicken-fried steak with sunny-side up eggs that he eschewed his original plan for a traditional breakfast of eggs, toast and bacon and went nuts on that steak. For my own part, I’m always on the lookout for a solid breakfast burrito, so that’s precisely what I ordered ($11.99).

Both dishes arrived fast thanks to the quick and friendly service. In the kitchen, we could hear the workers joking and bustling about; it’s always nice to hear laughter coming from a restaurant’s nerve center, too. Casa Bonita’s waitstaff is, perhaps, a little eager to make a good impression given that we’re in the midst of those fateful early days, but our water never went dry, and we very much appreciated the casual and not overbearing tone set from the start.

Maybe they were extra confident as well because of the most excellent breakfast burrito. Casa Bonita’s red chile is none too spicy, but its flavor profile on the day we visited was nothing short of staggering. This one’s a little thick, just how it should be, and the option to have pinto beans or potatoes akin to home fries—or both, which is just what I did—is small but so nice. Not only that, but Casa Bonita doesn’t skimp on the bacon, and rather than tossing a few bits into one side of the tortilla, they prepared it within the scrambled eggs themselves. The insides went all the way to each edge of the burrito, too, a much appreciated tactic which has been sorely lacking in local breakfast burritos in my recent experience.

The chicken-fried steak made for a fantastic if heavy breakfast, too. A thin bit of meat, it was seasoned and breaded quite well for just the right amount of crispiness. Using small bites to break and absorb and eat the egg yolks was also most satisfying. And so we ate to our contentment, and not just because you get free chips and salsa the moment you’re seated.

ALEX DE VORE

Casa Bonita will reportedly stay open from 7 am-9 pm every single day, which means a Midtown resident or worker will always have something close at hand that promises to be satisfying and affordable, and served by friendly people. No downside.

Of course, one does get hungry later in the day, too, which proved a timely opportunity to check out the new Valentina’s Dos (730 St. Michael’s Drive, (505) 416-8097) from Santa Fe’s Aboytes family. Of the family’s original spot in Casa Solana, I wrote in 2022, “Valentina’s is worth a trip anytime,” after a friend practically insisted we dine there in deference to its being their father’s favorite spot to visit when he’s in town. And just like its original restaurant, Valentina’s Dos is a winner.

For those who’ve dined at Loyal Hound with any sort of regularity, it’s a mite bizarre stepping into the old haunt and knowing you can’t get a chicken and waffle or pork sliders, but Valentina’s Dos has already begun to carve out its own identity. The menu will quite likely read as familiar to anyone who has dined at the original location, but seeing as how the restaurant is technically new, my companion for dinner (a different human than the breakfast person) and I decided we’d try items we’d never had on Alameda Street. She chose the combination plate with a pork tamale, cheese enchilada with red and a shredded beef taco. “Y’know, so I can try a few things,” she said. I, meanwhile, could not resist the siren call of chicken fajitas. Most times I find cooked bell peppers to be a nightmare of slimy texture and flavor that can’t

compare with the tangy bite of the pepper raw; in fajitas, somehow, they work.

Valentina’s Dos fajitas ($21.50) did not disappoint, either, unless you count their not arriving on one of those sizzling pans that are so fun at other places. Of course, that’s secondary to flavor and value, and the Valentina’s Dos version has those things in spades. First off, you get a tortilla made inhouse, our server noted, which made a huge difference for freshness and taste. Though I’m unsure there’s an incorrect way to absolutely demolish fajitas, I’ve always enjoyed making my own little burrito from the ingredients, and that’s precisely what I did. Because the kitchen staff at Valentina’s Dos knows what to do with chicken. Each bite was a tender bit of light meat bursting with an array of seasoning that not only highlighted the chicken itself, but worked well with the included beans and rice.

The combination plate was reportedly most excellent, too, even if my companion was like, “Hands off my taco, dude.” The red and green chile on this particular day were both incredibly spicy, but still very flavorful, making for one of those experiences where you’re kind of sweating and crying, but you’re still eating that chile because it tastes so good. As for that taco? “Nearly as good as El Parasol,” which is a wild thing to say, because those folks at Parasol have one of the best damn shredded beef tacos on the planet (yeah, I said it!). Of course, that’s a story for another Midtown breakfast or dinner. In the meantime, Valentina’s Dos deserves our patronage.

Oh, we do love a good breakfast burrito, don’t we? Casa Bonita just opened in the old Second Street Brewery location on—get this—Second Street, and it’s already excellent.

DUNE: PART TWO

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About Dry Grasses Review

Auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan digs deep for three-hour masterpiece

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Though its three-hour runtime at first seems a big ask from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep), About Dry Grasses more than justifies its own existence and ultimately proves downright economical thanks to its razor-sharp plot and dialogue, mesmerizing performances and art direction so gorgeous that every frame practically looks like a masterwork.

Here we join Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu, Miracle in Cell No. 7), an art teacher for an elementary (and maybe middle?) school in a remote Anatolia village who longs for life in the bigger city. Anatolia is awash with too much snow, the likes of which seems to leap to life from a Brugel painting. But beauty is objective, and snow is cold; Istanbul could make Samet happier.

Perhaps because of that, he is overly familiar with his students, particularly the young women; particularly Sevim (Ece Bağcı, who is so excellent for her age—or any age). Thus, when an unsent love letter from Sevim to Samet is found in the former’s bag, all hell breaks loose.

About Dry Grasses joins Anatomy of a Fall in the category of fantastic films from recent memory being

+ GORGEOUS, INTRIGUING - POOR DIALOGUE MAKES FOR ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES

Director Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049) recently took to X (formerly Twitter) to say he believes television programs have corrupted movies with all their dang dialogue, that he hates that and that he thinks film is really more of a visual medium.

OK, sure, there’s an argument for the power of cinematic visuals, though this take seems kind of reductive. Still, he really doubles down on the idea with Dune: Part Two, a very pretty movie based on the Frank Herbert series of sci-fi novels wherein dialogue feels like an afterthought and we get naught but exceedingly melodramatic performances from the only movie stars allowed in movies anymore: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler and Anya Taylor-Joy (OK, that last one only appears in the mix for a second, but still!).

Dune: Part Two: Electric Boogaloo picks up right where the first one left off: Paul Atreides (Chalamet) of the great house Atreides (think space royalty) has traveled to the desert planet Arrakis from where spice (think of it like space gas) is made. There, the nefarious Harkonnen clan (they’re also a great house) kills Paul’s whole family under the orders of their Baron (Stellan Skarsgård), save a few, like his mom, in their never-ending lust for blood and power.

Paul survives, though, and takes up with the

all about talking. Similarly to the now Oscar-winning French film, Ceylan’s newest opus never bores; it practically crackles with electricity. Celiloğlu is a terrifying delight as the ostensibly magnanimous teacher, though he’s a little more gathered than Lolita’s Humbert Humbert, at least insofar as how he believes he’s presenting himself to the outside world.

Like the movie’s own take on photography within its fiction, however, the camera picks up on the subtleties of character; the glances or off-putting tones in a teacher’s voice; the ways a young woman might handle a difficult situation when she believes no one is looking. This leaves viewers to dissect Samet’s motivations and behaviors, as well as the emotional fallout, on our own terms. It’s easy to flip-flop or just not know how to feel or what to believe.

Samet chooses to leave his student adrift through distance, but also the thinly-veiled social punishment of coldness. This can be particularly cruel, especially

Fremen—desert folk with lives consisting of activities like extracting water from dead bodies, worshiping/riding hulking sandworms and being extra religious. Paul falls for a young soldier named Chani (Zendaya) and takes up the cause: stabbing Harkonnens and blowing up spice depots. His mom (Rebecca Ferguson), meanwhile, rises within the ranks of the Bene Gesserit, a fanatical fundamentalist space church (the name for which did not set off spell check issues during this writing, interestingly) and uses Paul’s new penchant for stabbin’ to build up a flock.

Elsewhere, the cartoonishly evil Feyd-Rautha (Butler) prepares to take over Arrakis from his bungling and shouty brother Beast Rabban (Dave Bautista, who hits the screen for something like four minutes) by stabbing anyone in sight, having no hair and living in a world that is black and white for some reason. His trio of girlfriends are all cannibals, too, and Butler continues his oppressive regime of doing weird voices following that Elvis movie none of us really liked. Christopher Walken is the space emperor; Florence Pugh is his daughter; Javier Bardem trains Paul in the ways of the desert; Josh Brolin pops up to be like, “I know where there’s space nukes!”

But war never changes, or something, and Dune: Part Two rolls along practically insisting that you read all the books, or at least see the first film. There’s something to be said for a property that won’t go out of its way to hold the hand of the viewer, but Villeneuve has packed so much into this movie that even the most emotional moments fall flat. Chalamet maintains the

to someone wrapped up in forces beyond her ken. The film thus becomes wildly uncomfortable at times, particularly in the ways in which Samet regards himself versus how others actually regard him; but it also feels a little too real. How truthful are we in our myriad relationships? The mentor/mentee; our coworkers; ourselves? Ceylan’s characters are heartbreakingly human, which means, inherently, deeply flawed. And just because it’s challenging to dig into the specifics of About Dry Grasses doesn’t make it any less riveting. The film opens at the Center for Contemporary Arts on March 15.

ABOUT DRY GRASSES

Directed by Ceylan With Celiloğlu and Bağcı Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 197 min.

lessons he learned at the look-sadly-at-horizon school of acting, while Zendaya—who is generally very natural in just about anything—is reduced to furtive glances and angry scoffing.

Even so, the ending, through which Villeneuve sets the stage for Dune: Part Three: Turtles in Time feels rushed and silly. And it all leads up to one very important conclusion: You practically must already be pretty into Dune in book or film form to love this thing. If you’re a casual fan, well… enjoy the spectacle. (ADV)

Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 166 min.

AMERICAN FICTION

9 + FLAWLESS WRITING; TRIUMPHANT PERFORMANCE FROM WRIGHT - UNDERUSED SUPPORTING PLAYERS

As much as writer/director Cord Jefferson—who has writing credits for nigh-universally-loved television programs like The Good Place and Watchmen—crafts a love letter to writing and books in his debut feature film American Fiction, he also builds a strong case for the ways in which the publishing industry is broken.

Jefferson, in his adaptation of the novel Erasure by Percival Everett, coaxes from Jeffery Wright one of the finest performances of the Westworld alum’s career. The film offers a scathing takedown of pseudo-intellectualism, the politics of creativity and the frustrating way that there’s no good solution to either.

Wright plays Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a middle-aged overachiever type and novelist with

middling successes in the midst of a forced leave of absence from his California teaching position. The unplanned vacation happens after Ellison comes to verbal blows with a young white student over the usage of the N-word in Southern literature. “If I got over it, you can, too,” he tells the student. Cue trip to Boston for a writing conference—the same city from which Monk hails; cue unplanned family reunion.

Jefferson’s astute voice finds the most unsettling yet relatable ground as Monk navigates his rapidly changing family dynamics. His father is long dead; his mother (the legend Leslie Uggams) is succumbing to the early stages of Alzheimer’s; his sister (Tracee Ellis Ross) is divorced and broke; his brother (Sterling K. Brown) is, too, while coming out of the closet. And still Monk’s books don’t sell—or even appear in the right section at the bookstore (they’re lit, dammit, not African American Studies).

Monk jokingly pens the first chapter of a book, My Pafology, wherein a combination of vernacular absurdity and a deliberately myopic view of the Black experience come together to delight the majority white publishing house execs who’ve long left Monk’s previous works on read. So it’s under a pseudonym that he finally starts to make the money he desperately needs to take care of his mother.

American Fiction, then, is at turns hysterically funny and gut-wrenchingly sad in moments that feel universal, sure, but particularly in moments that hold a mirror up to its audience. (ADV) Violet Crown, R, 117 min.

JONESIN’ CROSSWORD

69 “The Thursday Murder Club” novelist Richard

70 Arizona mesa dwellers

71 Albanian’s neighbor

72 Makeup of Maslow’s hierarchy

73 Wild guess

DOWN

1 Field arbiter

2 Greek god of war

3 Plant parasite

4 Flower fragment

5 Part of ABV

6 End-of-the-year mo.

7 Tube where eggs travel

8 Lose composure

9 Connery’s antagonist, in ‘90s “SNL”

10 Newfoundland sound

11 1991 Joy Fielding thriller named for a line in a classic kids’ primer

12 Alternative to bottled

13 Soap pump contents

18 Not new

22 Bee formation

25 Birch, e.g.

26 Cafe au lait container

27 Flightless South American birds

28 “___ the Unknown” (“Frozen II” song)

29 Barack’s first chief of staff

30 Avoid

34 Icelandic band ___ Ros

36 “Damn Yankees” co-director Stanley

38 Roman 651

39 Sealed up

41 Old-fashioned

43 Man-goat of myth

46 “Don’t worry about it, I got you”

49 ___ a dime

51 Type of review

53 Department that works with marketing

54 The 1%

55 “One of ___ things is not like the other”

56 Latticework strips

60 Form a scab

61 Air filter acronym

63 Computer tower port

65 Wee child

66 Wee-___ (kids)

67 Close kin, for short

Rob

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I will never advise you to dim the flame of your ambition or be shy about radiating your enthusiasm. For the next few weeks, though, I urge you to find ways to add sap, juice, and nectar to your fiery energy. See if you can be less like a furnace and more like a sauna; less like a rumbling volcano and more like a tropical river. Practically speaking, this might mean being blithely tender and unpredictably heartful as you emanate your dazzling glow.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some spiritual traditions tell us that the path to enlightenment and awakening is excruciatingly difficult. One teaching compares it to crossing a bridge that’s sharper than a sword, thinner than a hair, and hotter than fire. Ideas like these have no place in my personal philosophy. I believe enlightenment and awakening are available to anyone who conscientiously practices kindness and compassion. A seeker who consistently asks, “What is the most loving thing I can do?” will be rewarded with life-enhancing transformations. Now I invite you to do what I just did, Taurus. That is, re-evaluate a task or process that everyone (maybe even you) assumes is hard and complicated. Perform whatever tweaks are necessary to understand it as fun, natural, and engaging.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do you have a relative your parents never told you about? If so, you may find out about them soon. Do you have a secret you want to keep secret? If so, take extra caution to ensure it stays hidden. Is there a person you have had a covert crush on for a while? If so, they may discover your true feelings any minute now. Have you ever wondered if any secrets are being concealed from you? If so, probe gently for their revelation, and they just may leak out. Is there a lost treasure you have almost given up on finding? If so, revive your hopes.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian poet Pablo Neruda wrote this to a lover: “I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” That sounds very romantic. What does it mean? Well, the arrival of spring brings warmer soil and air, longer hours of sunlight, and nurturing precipitation. The flowers of some cherry trees respond by blooming with explosive vigor. Some trees sprout upwards of 4,000 blossoms. Maybe Neruda was exaggerating for poetic effect, but if he truly wanted to rouse his lover to be like a burgeoning cherry tree, he’d have to deal with an overwhelming outpouring of lush beauty and rampant fertility. Could he have handled it? If I’m reading the upcoming astrological omens correctly, you Cancerians now have the power to inspire and welcome such lavishness. And yes, you can definitely handle it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Speaking on behalf of all nonLeos, I want to express our gratitude for the experiments you have been conducting. Your willingness to dig further than ever before into the mysterious depths is exciting. Please don’t be glum just because the results are still inconclusive and you feel a bit vulnerable. I’m confident you will ultimately generate fascinating outcomes that are valuable to us as well as you. Here’s a helpful tip: Give yourself permission to be even more daring and curious. Dig even deeper.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Unexpected mixtures are desirable, though they may initially feel odd. Unplanned and unheralded alliances will be lucky wild cards if you are willing to set aside your expectations. Best of all, I believe you will be extra adept at creating new forms of synergy and symbiosis, even as you enhance existing forms. Please capitalize on these marvelous openings, dear Virgo. Are there parts of your life that have been divided, and you would like to harmonize them? Now is a good time to try. Bridge-building will be your specialty for the foreseeable future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Many of you Libras have a special talent for tuning into the needs and moods of other people. This potentially gives you the power to massage situations to serve the good of all. Are you using that power to its fullest? Could you do anything

more to harness it? Here’s a related issue: Your talent for tuning into the needs and moods of others can give you the capacity to massage situations in service to your personal aims. Are you using that capacity to its fullest? Could you do anything more to harness it? Here’s one more variation on the theme: How adept are you at coordinating your service to the general good and your service to your personal aims? Can you do anything to enhance this skill? Now is an excellent time to try.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Psychologist Carl Jung said, “One of the most difficult tasks people can perform is the invention of good games. And this cannot be done by people out of touch with their instinctive selves.” According to my astrological assessment, you will thrive in the coming weeks when you are playing good, interesting games. If you dream them up and instigate them yourself, so much the better. And what exactly do I mean by “games”? I’m referring to any organized form of play that rouses fun, entertainment, and education. Playing should be one of your prime modes, Scorpio! As Jung notes, that will happen best if you are in close touch with your instinctual self—also known as your animal intelligence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Can Sagittarians ever really find a home they are utterly satisfied with? Are they ever at peace with exactly who they are and content to be exactly where they are? Some astrologers suggest these are difficult luxuries for you Centaurs to accomplish. But I think differently. In my view, it’s your birthright to create sanctuaries for yourself that incorporate so much variety and expansiveness that you can feel like an adventurous explorer without necessarily having to wander all over the earth. Now is an excellent time to work on this noble project.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You picked Door #2 a while back. Was that the best choice? I’m not sure. Evidence is still ambiguous. As we await more conclusive information, I want you to know that Door #1 and Door #3 will soon be available for your consideration again. The fun fact is that you can try either of those doors without abandoning your activities in the area where Door #2 has led you. But it’s important to note that you can’t try *both* Door #1 and Door #3. You must choose one or the other. Proceed with care and nuance, Capricorn, but not with excessive caution. Your passwords are *daring sensitivity* and “discerning audacity.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My second cousin has the same name as me and lives in Kosice, Slovakia. He’s a Slovakian-speaking chemical engineer who attended the Slovak University of Technology. Do we have anything in common besides our DNA and names? Well, we both love to tell stories. He and I are both big fans of the band Rising Appalachia. We have the same mischievous brand of humor. He has designed equipment and processes to manufacture products that use chemicals in creative ways, and I design oracles to arouse inspirations that change people’s brain chemistry. Now I invite you, Aquarius, to celebrate allies with whom you share key qualities despite being quite different. It’s a fine time to get maximum enjoyment and value from your connections with such people.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My Piscean friend Jeff Greenwald wrote the humorous but serious book *Shopping for Buddhas*. It’s the story of his adventures in Nepal as he traveled in quest of a statue to serve as a potent symbol for his spiritual yearning. I’m reminded of his search as I ruminate on your near future. I suspect you would benefit from an intense search for divine inspiration—either in the form of an iconic object, a pilgrimage to a holy sanctuary, or an inner journey to the source of your truth and love.

Homework: See a compendium of my Big-Picture Forecasts for you in 2024: https://tinyurl.com/ BigPicture2024

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