Santa Fe Reporter, March 20, 2024

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MARCH

OPINION 5, 7

NEWS

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY 9

Community Shelter launches mobile services

DRESS TO IMPRESS 10

Santa Fe Prep students commemorate women trailblazers

COVER STORY

POETRY SEARCH 2024 12

City of Santa Fe Poet Laureate Tommy Archuleta chooses this year’s winners

SFR PICKS 17

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THE CALENDAR 18

You’ll find plenty to do this week in Santa Fe

3 QUESTIONS 22

With the Found Footage Festival’s Nick Prueher

BOOKS 26

THE BOOKSHELF

We dive into Jamie Figueroa’s Mother Island

FOOD 27

HOTEL ME MORE

OK, so Agave is expensive—still totally worth it

MOVIES 28

LOVE LIES BLEEDING REVIEW

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THE GREATEST FOILIE OF ALL

The Reporter should stick around in its own back yard for the “The Foilies: Recognizing the worst in government transparency.” IMHO, it’s all small potatoes compared to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) with their ~$60 billion program to expand production of plutonium pits, the critical (pun intended) cores of nuclear weapons. NNSA has no credible cost estimates for its most expensive and complex program ever. It has not conducted public reviews as legally required by the National Environmental Policy Act. Pit production will create more contamination and more radioactive wastes. New pits can’t be full-scale tested because of the international testing moratorium, which could erode confidence in stockpile reliability. Worse yet, it could prompt the US to return to fullscale testing, which would have serious global proliferation consequences.

Transparency? NNSA heavily redacts LANL’s “Performance Evaluation Report” on how taxpayers’ money is spent. Years go by before Freedom of Information Act requests are honored. And yet LANL and the NNSA are all too eager to lead us into a new nuclear arms race that could end civilization overnight.

JAY COGHLAN

NUCLEAR WATCH NEW MEXICO

SANTA FE

NEWS, MARCH 13: “SFR’S NEXT ERA”

GOT A BRAND NEW BAG

Thank you for so many years of providing excellent journalism! Good luck on the sale.

—Judy S. Eckhart

Many thanks to Julie Ann Grimm for such a good job over the years

—Vicki Holmsten

Wow, big ups to JAG and Julia!

—Joe Fatton

Thank you JAG! You have enriched our city (and love The Fork)!

—Jim Nagle

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NEWS, MARCH 13: “TROUBLED WATER”

STEP UP, SANTA FE COUNTY

There seem to be three possible sources of the PFAS contamination of La Cienega, and all three are government-owned and operated: a National Guard airport, a municipal airport and a municipal sewage treatment plant. It is intolerable that the citizens are expected to pay for PFAS testing and for the installation and operation of treatment systems.

The county should compensate the citizens for these expenses and then seek reimbursement from the government(s) ultimately held responsible.

The county MUST also provide a way for citizens to dispose of any PFAS the treatment systems remove from the water. Otherwise, we may simply move the PFAS from one spot to another.

Kudos to the Reporter for publishing this article.

DEVIN BENT, PHD SANTA FE (NAMBE)

NEWS, MARCH 13: “PRIMARY READINESS”

DON’T FORGET DISTRICT 43

I thought I should point out that in discussing local candidates for the Legislature, people often forget that NM House District 43, represented by Christine Chandler of Los

SANTA FE AIRPORT MANAGER THINKS CERTAIN PEOPLE MAY WANT TO GET MARRIED AT THE AIRPORT.

Like people who are stranded there due to lack of transportation.

STATE HOUSE AND SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADERS WON’T SEEK REELECTION, SAY THEY WANT TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH THEIR FAMILIES.

New group, Wives Against Redistricting, expected to form momentarily.

US SUPREME COURT REJECTS FORMER OTERO COUNTY COMMISSIONER/COWBOYS FOR TRUMP FOUNDER COUY GRIFFIN’S APPEAL TO RETURN TO OFFICE.

Maybe he should move to Colorado.

FEATURE FILM EDDINGTON WILL BE MADE AND SET IN NEW MEXICO AND REPORTEDLY INCLUDE A PLOTLINE IN WHICH A COUPLE HEADING TO LA RUNS OUT OF GAS IN A SMALL CHARMING NM TOWN AND SOON DISCOVERS THE NIGHTMARE UNDERNEATH.

So, a documentary.

PORNHUB DISABLES ACCESS IN TEXAS OVER AGE VERIFICATION LAW

As if Texans weren’t already stressed out.

NO NEW PREZ AT NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY AS SCHOOL SAYS NO-GO TO ALL FINALIST CANDIDATES A tough blow for white dudes, indeed.

SANTA FE NATIONAL FOREST FEES DELAYED TO 2025

Do you pay by tree viewed, or is it, like, a bundle deal?

SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOARD OF EDUCATION: REBUILD EJ MARTINEZ

Students will relocate to Chaparral while EJ Martinez

FLIGHTS

City

FANCY

Alamos, also includes a portion of Santa Fe’s South Side, north of Airport Road out near the bypass, plus La Cienega. People on the South Side often complain of being neglected—we shouldn’t ignore them in this also! By the way, for politicos like me, it’s really quite notable that Chandler will have no Republican opposition (though there are two Libertarians running). It’s amazing how Democratic Los Alamos County has become of late after decades as a strongly Republican island in northern NM!

DAVID THOMPSON, 2ND VICE-CHAIR DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF SANTA FE COUNTY

THE FORK, MARCH 7: “THINGS WE LEARNED ABOUT FOOD AND NEW MEXICO FROM ONLINE MAPS”

OK, WE WON’T STOP

I just moved to Santa Fe after a decade of visiting at any available excuse, like “hey, I just swallowed a bug, let’s go to Santa Fe!” I’ve been hooked on SFR since my first reading. I guess it’s better than an addiction to chicken porn, but…whatever. Anyway, this week’s Fork was even better than usual. I laughed hard enough to literally drive off the road. Kidding, I was sitting at a table. From the Denny’s fake-out sandwich to the Chizza, I was LOL! Please, whatever you’re smoking? DO NOT STOP!

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NEWS, FEB. 21: “RUST ARMORER TRIAL BEGINS”

MISS-TAKE?

I started reading your article, and when I came upon the word “Miss” before [Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s] name, I stopped and couldn’t finish the article. You do know that the word “Miss” has been replaced with “Ms.,” right? The reporter was quoting Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey, who in my opinion, is very disrespectful and an insulting human being. She thinks the only way to win her case is to put innuendos and insults out in the community with her loud mouth. I find her a ridiculous person. She is in the courtroom as I write this worried and doing the same thing with insults to witnesses. There is no need to do this sort of communication to win cases although today it seems the younger generation thinks it is. Theater plays no role in courtrooms anywhere. I can see now why I was enraged. If it wasn’t a woman saying it I might not be as outraged but it was a woman.

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On the Road to Recovery

EVAN CHANDLER Community Shelter launches mobile services

BY EVAN CHANDLER evan@sfreporter.com

The sun peeked briefly through the clouds onto the parking lot behind Healthcare for the Homeless Monday, where a white trailer bearing a blue and yellow “SHOWERS TO GO” sign with three bathrooms—one handicap accessible—sat. A few unhoused individuals showered and were offered food while Jon Singh, a case manager, approached them to offer additional services.

The Interfaith Community Shelter, which runs the Pete’s Place shelter on Cerrillos Road in a city building, this week launches a twice-weekly mobile support unit that will target locations within city limits during the day. Executive Director Korina Lopez tells SFR the shelter spent roughly a year preparing before “taking the show on the road.” The new program, she says, will focus on bringing the shelter’s daytime services to those in need.

“It’s really addressing, for us, our own population that we serve the most,” Lopez says. “We’re a low-barrier shelter, so for us, it’s like, ‘What more can we do to help our community [and] to help engage guests?’”

At the same time, Lopez says the organization hopes the mobile unit will help reach people who are harder to serve, such as those who avoid the brick and mortar shelter for various reasons, because “that’s our target population.”

To mark the launch, Lopez will host an event at 9 am, March 21 at Salvation Army (525 W Alameda Street) at which attendees will be able to view inside the trailer-like structure to see its showers and bathrooms.

“We do want to celebrate this, but for the guests who will be accessing those services, we also want to keep it low-key so that they can privately connect to the services,” Lopez says. “There’s still a lot of stigma around being homeless, and I definitely don’t want to create a situation where people feel further stigmatized with all eyes on them because they’re wanting to go take a shower.”

The latest count from the city places the number of unhoused individuals in Santa Fe at 374. The mobile shelter is just the latest way in which advocates and officials are

We’re a low - barrier shelter, so for us, it’s like, ‘What more can we do to help our community [and] to help engage guests? ’

-Korina Lopez, Executive Director

seeking to bring new amenities and resources to its homeless population.

City officials in March 2023 approved a plan to purchase 25 pallet homes to erect safe sites with $1 million from the American Rescue Plan Act. The governing body then approved contracts in December 2023 with Christ Lutheran Church and The Life Link for a pilot Safe Outdoor Space project that will use 10 of the structures. The Interfaith Community Shelter applied to oversee operations for the pilot, but was not selected

bathroom—it’ll be available—and at the same time we’ll be able to do what Interfaith wants to do, which is more outreach.”

Webber says the one-year lease also includes a renewal clause, meaning “it probably will turn into a two-year project.” To operate the unit, the Interfaith Community Shelter received a nearly $200,000 grant from the state’s Department of Health in July 2023. Hepatitis and Harm Reduction Program Manager Josh Swatek, who will also attend the launch event, tells SFR he led Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s mobile homelessness initiative, which allocated the money received from the Legislature to several service providers.

“I think it’s a really exciting program that we can reach and interact with a lot of people in Santa Fe but also throughout the entire state,” Swatek says.

Project organizers looked to “build capacity and mobile services outside the Albuquerque area,” so that those in non-urban communities have resources closer to home, he adds.

by the city and thus shifted its focus to the mobile unit, Lopez previously told SFR.

Much like its Pete’s Place location, the shelter will lease the mobile hygiene unit from the City of Santa Fe. Mayor Alan Webber tells SFR reducing homelessness requires many different strategies—such as deployment of the hygiene unit.

“One of the things that we are continually confronted by is people who are experiencing homelessness don’t have hygiene facilities,” Webber says. “If you could imagine being in that circumstance yourself: wanting to have dignity but having very little opportunity to live a life with dignity because of very simple amenities that we take for granted…It adds to the burden of being unhoused.”

The mayor says he forecasts positive outcomes for more than just the unhoused as a result of the mobile services program.

“I think getting it into use will be good for the community. I think people who are compassionate toward people who are experiencing homelessness but also are concerned about some of the behaviors that are part of being homeless—this speaks to their concerns,” Webber says. “It helps the people who are homeless. They don’t have to try to find a place to clean up or go to the

“Sometimes in rural New Mexico, we know transportation is difficult. We also know that it’s hard for people to go from place to place during certain times. Mobile services really bridge a gap between when someone is unsheltered or living outside of shelters, and we’re bringing services directly to them,” Swatek says. “It also helps us build relationships with community members [and] with folks who maybe aren’t housed so we can provide assistance to them…It’s really a lifeline in many circumstances.”

The mobile hygiene unit will run Mondays and Thursdays from 10 am to 2 pm. On Mondays, people can find the unit outside of La Familia Medical Center’s Healthcare for the Homeless off Cerrillos Road. The unit will spend Thursdays stationed outside the Salvation Army on Alameda Street.

“It’ll be interesting,” Lopez says. “It is somewhat of a pilot program, so we’re kind of excited to see what happens.”

MOBILE HYGIENE UNIT LOCATION AND HOURS

Monday: 10 am to 2 pm, Healthcare for the Homeless (1532 B Cerrillos Road)

Thursday: 10 am to 2 pm, Salvation Army (525 W Alameda Street)

Interfaith Community Shelter Executive Director Korina Lopez says conversations with the city to utilize the mobile hygiene unit began approximately one year ago.

Dress to Impress

BY MO CHARNOT mo@sfreporter.com

The paper dress representing Navajo public health activist Annie Dodge Wauneka sports a black top with red undertones constructed with folded photos and articles about Wauneka colored to mimic the appearance of velvet. Painted turquoise jewelry and a long, pleated skirt made from a map of McKinley County painted cornflower blue and dotted with bright red flowers completes the ensemble.

“Wauneka focused her life on reconciling differences between Western and traditional Navajo medicine, specifically in the Navajo Nation’s fight against tuberculosis,” Bella Caldwell, the senior student at Santa Fe Preparatory School who made the dress, says in a presentation of her historical art project. “Needless to say, I was very excited to create something that would represent this incredible woman.”

Caldwell and her eight classmates in Santa Fe Prep’s Women of the Southwest class have worked throughout the semester on individual research projects focusing on significant women of New Mexico’s history.

They then created art projects—paper dresses representing female trailblazers— based on their research, with assistance and mentoring from Kansas-based artist Liza MacKinnon, a fellow at the Women’s International Study Center in Santa Fe. The students presented their art projects March 14 at the historic Acequia Madre House, which currently houses the center.

MacKinnon also presented a centerpiece paper dress project: a full-sized dress modeled after one worn by Eva Scott Fényes,

Santa Fe Prep students celebrate women’s contributions to New Mexico history

the famous local painter who built the Acequia Madre House with her daughter and granddaughter.

“I am really blown away by the students’ work, and I have enjoyed learning about all of these different historic women,” MacKinnon said when presenting the project.

Some students took a more controversial approach, researching figures like Matilda Coxe Stevenson—a pioneer in the field of Indigenous anthropology, who senior Kaden Logghe noted also had a reputation for unethical behavior.

“She was met with some opposition from pueblos and even other researchers at the time for her practices, such as intimidation, bribery and threats,” Logghe says. “Matilda Coxe Stevenson is morally complicated, but I am grateful that I can see the progress that she has made since she made the first step in the right direction—and some wrong ones.”

Members of the state’s International Women’s Forum group, who indirectly inspired the Women of the Southwest course

with its New Mexico Historic Women Marker Program, also attended to take in the students’ historical interpretations.

“I think it’s such an imaginative way to do research on the women,” Kris Pettersen, director of the program, says. “It’s a fabulous reflection of the many unique identities of women in this program.”

Seventh-grade history teacher Lisa Nordstrum, who created the Women of the Southwest class, realized when she began teaching New Mexico history, women were absent from the class’s textbook’s narrative.

Her research led her to the New Mexico Historic Women Marker program. “I just started making projects and ideas, and taught my seventh graders about the women of New Mexico.” From there, she approached the school about creating an upper-grade course solely focused on women in the Southwest.”

The school agreed, and the class became an elective available to junior and senior students “roughly every two or three years,”

Nordstrum says. She describes the courses as one that excites its students, “especially if they’ve been in my New Mexico history class and I’ve already been kind of planting that seed with them.”

The idea for this semester’s art and research project, Nordstrum says, grew out of her preferred method of project-based teaching.

“I find it’s really important to get students off campus, in archives and doing primary source research,” Nordstrum says. “We have so many wonderful resources throughout the state for that in our museums, archives and libraries.”

Shortly after she began teaching the course, Nordstrum began working with the International Women’s Forum to develop a K-12 curriculum that covers women in New Mexico, which she later worked on with the Public Education Department to align it with the department’s content standards, so other teachers can use it.

Currently, the curriculum lives on the websiste for the New Mexico Historic Women Marker Program, developed in 2005 to address the lack of women represented in the state’s Official Scenic Historic Markers program. At present, the organization has 102 markers recognizing individuals or groups of women and their impact on state history.

“We don’t think a lot of people know about the women in the marker program because their history hasn’t really been told,” International Women’s Forum member Karen Abraham tells SFR. “Through projects like this and the interest of younger people and the curriculum, they’re starting to be realized.”

The project also aims to spotlight women whose accomplishments have yet to be widely acknowledged.

“Some of these women, they’re not Georgia O’Keeffe, they’re not known worldwide,” Pettersen adds. “They just did something important in their community.”

Santa Fe Prep senior Bella Caldwell shares her research and art project on Navajo public health advocate Annie Dodge Wauneka at the Acequia Madre House.

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Poetry Search

Local poets tell stories both timely and timeless

Roughly two seconds after learning Santa Fe-born-and-raised poet, musician and punk legend Tommy Archuleta had been named the City of Santa Fe’s 2024 poet laureate, SFR reached out to request he judge the paper’s annual Spring Poetry Search—joining the ranks of previous judges such as Institute of American Indian Art Associate Professor and award-winning poet Anne Haven McDonnell; former city Poet Laureate Darryl Lorenzo Wellington; and Levi Romero, New Mexico’s first state poet laureate. Thankfully, Archuleta obliged.

Author of the collection Susto, Archuleta is a local’s local with a perspective steeped in Santa Fe flavor and style. He also knows the qualities he wants in a poem.

“I have some training in this weird stuff we do, so I’m looking at form, and what I mean is the construction of the poem,” Archuleta explains. “I’m looking at how the construction coheres with the content; how strong the voice is; I’m looking at tone, which is the conveyer of the emotionality of a poem; the overall cohesion.”

In this week’s issue, SFR presents the top-three winners and several of the remaining seven honorable mentions, with additional work online at sfreporter.com

First- place winner Ginger Legato’s “Autobiography of Q” evokes Ocean Vuong in a visceral and formal interrogation of fallen queer lives. Bianca Barela’s second-place “Las Adineradas” operates as a remembrance of her great-grandmother that pulls back the curtain on the Santa Fe mythos. Third-place winner Michelle Ribeiro’s poem “My Right Hand” summons Pablo Neruda, and the eternal beauty of internal and external landscapes.

Archuleta asked for a blind judging (without the entrants’ names) “because it’s a small town,” and says he “didn’t have a theme in mind. There are some forms of poetry out there where it’s all about the percussiveness of the language, that have nothing to do with content—like Jackson Pollack and how they didn’t know what to do with him; how they didn’t know it was about what is the paint doing on the canvas, not what it’s saying when you step back from it.”

Bottom line? “I’m looking for the gut-punch, the ones that make my stomach and throat change places,” Archuleta says. “I take them with me. These have that.”

FIRST PLACE

Autobiography of Q

By Ginger Legato

Soon I will be made to speak.

—Michael McGriff

Silenced. Slapped shut.

A hooded tongue. Thirst.

Q views herself flayed. I could say canceled.

An empty shell.

Or a form of light, a window. Imagine a crystal glass orchestra causing the western sea to calm.

Q is dressed from the closet that has a bright sunny window, smells of animal fur. Beneath her clothing she binds her body with layers of heat and cold, shivers like a mirage of bending light. Q could be no one, none, a self-portrait with palms upturned, untitled, yellow roses crushed beneath her feet, one foot pressing the head of a red adder. Ocean V. wrote a closet of words that opened a door for her to pass through, barefoot.

Q inches toward the edge of her life. Not for the first time.

Arms crossed against the sensation of sharp punches to the head, she remembers the murders, climbs the litany of names, queer deaths: Julie Williams and Lollie Winans, throats cut in Shenandoah National Park; Nohemi Medina and Tania Martinez dismembered near the border of El Paso–Juarez, their limbs strewn along the highway to their home; Club Q, Colorado Springs, 5 shot dead 29 injured; Orlando, Florida, Club Pulse, 49 killed 53 wounded; year 2022, 39 trans men and women murdered. Tatiana Labelle beaten to death, cut & stuffed into a trash can. Q recognizes the place of slaughter is where she sleeps, alone, dreads her vision of bent bodies, the exhaustion of dreams. She tells herself not to sleep, leave the light on, don’t tell.

When is a child old enough to speak? How many deaths must she carry?

Ginger Legato is a poet, artist and book designer. She is author of the 2022 book The Hook Was Very Sharp; and her poems have appeared in American Tanka, Fixed and Free Poetry Anthology 2021, Heliotrope, Rubberreality, Seeds, The Magazine, Trickster and Written with a Spoon: A Poet’s Cookbook . She received a first-place award for a single poem from the New Mexico State Poetry Society and is a winner of the Southwest Literary Center/Recursos de Santa Fe, Discovery Competition. Ginger is also well known as an interior book designer for the Penguin Poetry Series, published by Penguin Random House.

SECOND PLACE

THIRD PLACE

Las Adineradas

By Bianca Barela

my mama’s abuelita buried two and raised four then she crossed the milpa helped raise seis nietos more she’d take my mama and my tias with her up the road to clean house do the wash hang and iron every load for white women who paid her cash and gave her trinkets cut glass perfume bottles a few drops of fragrance left sometimes rhinestone necklaces matching clip-on earrings mirror compacts covered in fake jewels sparkling

las muchachas knew she stashed a glittering looking glass in her purse she’d pull it out to check her makeup before church

a glint of lives lived by other women quién pagó to have their sheets exprimido y planchado

chones washed with ivory flakes bleached with borax ironed flat my mama wondering why they’d ever need them ironed like that our matriarch was a domestic a favorite amongst wealthy wives her well worn hands worked her land ironed pleats sharp as knives

las adineradas tucked their babies into crisp white sheets at night while my mama’s abuelita tied our purse strings tight

Bianca Barela is a poet, mother and native of Santa Fe. Her work has been featured in the Santa Fe Reporter, Quiet Lightning and IHRAF Publishes . Her poem “Los Surcos” also received an honorable mention in this year’s contest, and can be read online at sfreporter.com.

My Right Hand

By Michelle Ribeiro

Searching for Neruda’s silver moon apples in pink opalescence in the jeweled tips of polished liquid rose

Who says artificial can’t be beautiful?

I could look at my hand forever if I didn’t focus on those chips because my hand is a living sculpture with rivers of hatch marks fields of golden grasses stored sun

I can see my insides. Like smiles, skin can cover but never hide it all.

My hand is a painting a weapon an instrument the source of your groaning pleasure

I will leave my prints on you.

I will decide that watch will not be a noun, but rather what I do as I sniff out exaltation in a painted plastic fingernail or a fleshy wad of woman-knuckle

As I sniff out exaltation in that shiny gold band, a ring of starlight a small piece of beauty that survived the marital wreckage

Like me.

Like those smooth, black stones in Georgia O’Keefe’s heart

Michelle Ribeiro is an artist who believes that poetry is necessary. In the words of Dr. William Carlos Williams: “It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” As a career educator, I always believed that my passion for poetry was the most important gift I had to share. I have always had the soul of a poet. It is, I think, what I was destined to become. As a child, I recognized myself distinctly in certain children’s book characters with poetic lives and souls. Characters like Fredrick the field mouse in the book of the same name, or the independent, imaginative young bookworm Arabella Hofstadter in The Windmill Summer. It has been a long journey, from recognizing to becoming. I now intentionally, fully, and joyfully dedicate my life to poetry. I am writing and re-writing myself more awake and alive every day, both on and off the page.

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One Of Our Worst Fights

By Mary McGinnis

We had finished putting The beef, sour cream and mushrooms For the stroganoff, Into the crock pot and forgot to turn it on. By the next morning Everything had spoiled.

Mary McGinnis has been writing and living in New Mexico since 1972 where life has connected her with emptiness, desert and mountains. Despite having the disability of blindness since birth, she had a counseling and advocacy career for 40 years. During that time, she kept writing no matter what. In addition to appearing in many publications, she has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, and has three full length collections: Listening for Cactus, October Again and See with Your Whole Body, as well as one chapbook: Breath of Willow.

HONORABLE MENTION

Liminal

By Zachary Kluckman

At dusk the lamplit river wends               a trail of stars. The knotting pine  stand like prophets, shoulders               bent to the task of adoration.

The intrusion here is mine, still              the mesas glow as if lit within  and welcoming. I step among the               prayers of animal tongue and

watch the holy rise. Spirits long              alone among the sacred stones  lift their legs in equine pose, stamp              and dance. Phantom fires light

their ancient faces. A sweat that              cannot be gathers on their brows.  The dew of dawn perhaps, glistens              as the song mourns their absent throats.

Their missing names. Land and                   homes asphalt covered. Concrete  spilt like headstones across horizons.                  They spin their feathered heads, cry

their children’s names. The hills              echoing the elegies, a bitter wind  the sleeping will not feel. My bones                ache with their presence. Chill

at the owl’s shriek. Somewhere               a mouse gives its life to afford   another. A horse whinnies behind              its iron fence in the distance.

A child shifts beneath his blanket.               His father sleeps before the TV, his posture a kind of reverence.

Zachary Kluckman, three-time National Poetry Awards winner, is a Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Gold Medal poetry teacher, Red Mountain Press National Poetry Prize recipient, a founding organizer of the 100 Thousand Poets for Change program and nationally ranked slam poet. Kluckman was one of three American poets invited to the 2017 Kistrech International Poetry Festival in Kenya. Nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize and recently a finalist for the Subnivean Poetry Award judged by Kazim Ali, Kluckman is a mental health advocate and community organizer. His newest collection, Rearview Funhouse, was published by Eyewear Publishing in 2023

Bison

By Marie Turco

I was walking down a sand trail In my dreams

For seven nights, I dreamt I picked up animal bones

There were seven bones And seven trails

On the seventh night

I came upon a beautiful bison.

Marie Turco is a poet, playwright and textile artist. She lives in Santa Fe County with her beloved service dog Maya and those kind of friends who become family. She has had her writing published in The Voices Project, Rebelle Society, Untitled and The Might y, among other publications. Her haiku was part of the NM State Society of Poets Poet’s Picnic and Chapbook in 2023 and another haiku will again be included in the 2024 picnic and chapbook. Her play, The Sanity Trials , written from a collection of poems about mental health and mental health discrimination, was brought to the stage by The Bridge PHL, a Philadelphia-based theater company, in 2018. Marie is currently working on a book of haiku about living in the high desert of New Mexico. She is also a psychotherapist and activist.

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HONORABLE MENTION

HONORABLE MENTION

At the Mall

By Tamara Baer

Snagged

By Greg Berg

fuzzy fragmented love shimmering around her wheelchair, before the tangles and skeins and amyloid proteins, before the lesions became thorns:

a curious amalgam of gentle dementia and skin like shaved balsa.

breath soft as her favorite marabou streamer tied for salmon in Rangeley Lakes words formed upstream, cast into the current, snagged.

Greg Berg is a poet, book artist and fine arts photographer. He has published the Blaze , a book of poems and collage. His photographs have been in group shows and are in private collections. He lives in Santa Fe.

You know the sounds you hear when you aren’t exactly listening, or a scent sometimes that passes on the street and snags a memory, or even more that sudden – and just as suddenly gone by –disorientation of motion when the planet turns inside the briefest slip of gravity, and some unexpected portion of the world comes to a stop... It was like that – from the dead space of the parking lot inside to the miasma of compartments, there, between the equal double doors of glass, flat and still as some imaginary water, was this plant –a potted palm the size of some small serpent, complacent, sitting in a plaited basket. Its tubular and scaled fat trunk forked once then sprouted delicate green strands of hair down to the middle of its back, wavering between the pull and push of air, a grand unshiny fish in the microscopic daylight. I stopped and felt its scales and sea hair like lifting something from the water – did you ever dive and for an instant before squelching it feel that germ of panic that something’s going to keep you down there –and then the exhilaration of coming up for air.

Tamara Baer is a landscape architect and recently retired planner. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including locally in The Magazine and previously in the Santa Fe

CERAMIC ID

South Korean-born/Canada-based artist Joon Hee Kim’s whole life might have been different had she kept going in the pastry program for which she moved to the Great White North. Instead, she became enamored with ceramics; changed careers; became a master; won hearts at numerous notable residencies; exhibited in America, Germany and the UK and, now, comes to Santa Fe’s Kouri+Carrao with You, Me, Us A ruminative exploration of identity and individuality, the show is all about faces and emotions, how we interweave with others—or don’t—and how we discover who we are. The detailed busts might look familiar to some, or strange to others, but there’s no denying they carry a certain magnetism. Perhaps you’ll even see yourself in one of the pieces. (Alex De Vore)

You, Me, Us Opening Reception:

5-7 pm Friday, March 22. Free. Kouri+Corrao 3213 Calle Marie, (505) 820-1888

SKIN DEEP

FILM SAT/23

Though tattoos have become ubiquitous to the point it’s weirder when someone doesn’t have at least one or two, their ultimate earliest days speak to ancient sensibilities, primal notions and tribal meaning. And if you want to deepen your appreciation for one of the most beautiful and meaningful art forms around, look no further than a screening of the movie Paaqtuq: A Tupik Mi Film at the Museum of International Folk Art this week. In its broadest sense, the film zeroes in on traditional Inuit tattooing and its place among the Inuit people, as well as its significance against the backdrop of Western society’s influence. (ADV)

Paaqtuq: A Tupik Mi Film Screening: 2 pm Saturday, March 23. Free. Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204

FILM SUN/24

FEMME-TASTIC

If you still haven’t had enough film in Santa Fe this week, look to the New Mexico History Museum’s Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase. Curated by members of Latine-led film org Femme Frontera, whose members hail from New Mexico, Texas, Mexico and beyond, the program is dedicated to the experiences of women, nonbinary folks and others from within the LGBTAIA+ spectrum. This means multiple narrative shorts, music videos and documentaries too numerous to begin to list here, and it’s all crammed into the low-commitment period of two hours. In summation: A bunch of badass women and nonbinary people have a film fest centering marginalized voices, and it’s free to attend. Sold! (ADV)

Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase: 2-4 pm Sunday, March 24. Free. New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5100

THU/21

When the Wind Blows

Ever-timely Downwind documentary sheds more light on the repercussions of US nuclear testing.

With seven Oscar wins now under its belt, including for Best Picture, most people have at least heard of director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. And though the film about the father of the atomic bomb does shed light on a crucial series of events in world history, it’s still worth asking if the spotlight is aimed at the right places.

The 2023 documentary Downwind from director Mark Shapiro aims to answer that query by taking a closer look into the lives of the people most affected by the 928 nuclear bomb explosions that have taken place across the Southwest since the 1940s—people known as downwinders. An upcoming screening event at the main branch of the Santa Fe Public Library is particularly timely given ongoing efforts to compensate those downwinders (Lois Lipman’s extraordinary 2023 documentary First We Bombed New Mexico also examines these issues).

The US Senate recently passed for the second time an expanded Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) that would provide compensation to downwinders here, as well as in Utah, Montana and Guam, to name a few locales. While the legislation still needs to be taken up by the House and approved by President Biden, Shapiro hopes in the meantime more Americans will learn about the situation.

“The most surprising thing was when we were welcomed into the homes of people, many who identify as downwinders,” Shapiro tells SFR of making his film. “Our hope is that there is an awareness raised. We want the discussion. We want people to start talking about it. This should be a household topic: ‘What do you do to take care of our people here and all over the world?’”

The Downwind screening includes a Zoom Q&A with Utah-based playwright, activist and downwinder Mary Dickson, who appears in the film and whose play Exposed also details the impact of nuclear testing. She considers the screening “vital.”

“I’ve been working for 30 years trying to get justice for downwinders,” Dickson tells SFR. “It’s still relevant, people are still getting diagnosed because of long half-lifes; their cancers come back; they face crushing medical bills; and our government has turned its back on them. Oppenheimer was a good start, it started the discussion, but it’s up to us to tell the story of what came afterward.”

(Adam Ferguson)

DOWNWIND SCREENING

5 pm Thursday, March 21. Free Santa Fe Public Library (Main Branch) 145 Washington Ave., (505) 955-6781 register through santafe.librarycalendar.com/ event/downwind-11265

COURTESY

COURTESY MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART

NEW

MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM

COURTESY

GRAVITAS VENTURES

FILM

THE CALENDAR

SOLAR ECLIPSE: MICHAEL ZEILER

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

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Eclipse-chasing geographer and cartographer Zeiler presents on the path of the April 8 eclipse. Pre-register at bit.ly/4bU7de1. 2 pm, $25

WRITING GENERATION

SERIES: SERENA RODRIGUEZ

Online

From SFCC and IAIA’s creative writing program, featured speaker Rodriguez reads a selection of her poetry. Register at surveymonkey.com/r/ WritingGenSpring24.

6 pm

DANCE

POMEGRANATE SEEDS

YOUTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

Pomegranate Studio 535 Cerrillos Road, (505) 501-2142

An after-school dance program. 5-7 pm

EVENTS

BINGO FUNDRAISER

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

WED/20

BOOKS/LECTURES

HISTORY WITH CHRISTIAN

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

Talk history with hobbyist Christian Saiia.

Noon-2 pm

MOTHER ISLAND: A DAUGHTER CLAIMS PUERTO

RICO

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

Jamie Figueroa presents her deeply personal memoir that explores the institutions that define a Puerto Rican woman, and what she unlearned to rediscover herself. (See A&C, page 26.)

6 pm

NATURE LOVERS BOOK CLUB

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

An adult book club focused on nature. This month’s read is Fox and I by Catherine Raven.

6-7:30 pm

Play bingo and raise money for a documentary about Madrid’s annual He-She Bang event.

6 pm

GEEKS WHO DRINK

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

Challenging trivia with prizes. 8-10 pm

KIDS SING ALONG

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

Sing-alongs for toddlers.

10:30-11:15 am

QUEER COFFEE MEET-UP

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

Coffee with the local queer community.

9:30-11 am

MUSIC

DARREN KIELY

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

Kiely’s folk-infused pop sound intertwines traditional Irish music with modern influences.  7:30 pm, $23

HALF BROKE HORSES

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

Honky-tonk and Americana. 6-9 pm

JIM ALMAND

Cowgirl

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

A Memphis singer-songwriter plays guitar and harmonica. 4 pm

JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES

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

Melodious Americana tunes.  8 pm

KARAOKE NIGHT

Boxcar

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

Crash Romeo hosts karaoke. 7 pm

MELANGE

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

Award-winning, original Spanglish funk fusion.  6-9 pm

ORGAN RECITAL

SERIES: PART II

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

Local organist Frederick Frahm both composes and performs.  Noon-1 pm

RAUL MIDÓN

San Miguel Mission

401 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 983-3974

Midón blends smooth folk, alt-pop and jazz genres. 7:30 pm, $37

WARM UP WEDNESDAY

Boxcar

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

Hip-hop night features live performances, guest DJs and more. 9 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

COURTESY STRATA GALLERY / KEANU JONES

Keanu Jones’ digital collages in the Intersecting Lifetimes exhibit opening on March 22 at Strata Gallery collide past moments with the present.

OR, Santa Fe Playhouse

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

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

7:30 pm, $30-$60

WORKSHOP

EQUAL GROUNDS:

CREATING CHANGE

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

Coffee, snacks and a heart-toheart about city businesses.

8:30-10 am

MEDICINE-POUCH

MAKING CLASS

Santa Fe Indigenous Center

1420 Cerrillos Road, (505) 660-4210

Make a medicine-pouch! Open to Natives aged 16+ in Santa Fe.

6-8 pm

PAINT & SIP: SPRING CACTUS

Boxcar

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

Paint a prickly masterpiece.

6-8 pm, $45

THU/21

BOOKS/LECTURES

WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE

UNHOUSED IN SANTA FE

Santa Fe Library (La Farge)

1730 Llano St., (505) 955-4862

A presentation from formerly or current unhoused people to help understand homelessness.

6:30-7:45 pm

DANCE

POMEGRANATE SEEDS YOUTH MENTORSHIP

PROGRAM

Pomegranate Studio

535 Cerrillos Road, (505) 501-2142

An after-school dance program.

5-7 pm

EVENTS

DOWNWIND

Santa Fe Public Library (Main Branch)

145 Washington Ave., (505) 955-6780

A documentary about the United States’ nuclear weapons tests that lethally impact Americans today. (See SFR Picks, page 17.)

5-8 pm

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952

Challenging trivia with prizes.

7-9 pm

LADIES NIGHT

Boxcar

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

Ladies get in free, $5 for everyone else. Guest DJs perform. 10 pm

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

ALEX MARYOL

CHOMP Food Hall

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

Muddy Mississippi blues, gritty indie rock and buttery R&B.

7-9 pm

AMY COFFMAN

Cowgirl

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

An independent folk rock artist.

9 am

DISCOVERING THE MUSIC OF BRAHMS

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

A deep dive into the intensely structured music of Brahms.

6-7:30 pm, $10-$25

FORREST MCCURREN

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Singer-songwriter McCurren wields lyricism set against vignettes of Middle America.

7 pm

GILBERT URIBE

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

A vibrant blend of acoustic Latin and soul that Uribe calls “sabrosoul.”

8-10 pm

HALF BROKE HORSES

Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, (505) 983-9817

Honky-tonk and Americana. 7-10 pm

JONATHAN RICHMAN

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

Known for his quirky, insightful lyrics, Richman mixes rock, pop, folk and punk influences.

7:30 pm, $30-$35

THE IRIE & AARON WOLF

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

Arizona-based alt-reggae band

The Irie performs with folk hiphop artist Wolf.

7:30 pm, $12-$15

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

THE CALENDAR

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

FRI/22

ART OPENINGS

INTERSECTING LIFETIMES (OPENING)

Strata Gallery

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

Keanu Jones (Diné) examines the intersecting of lifetimes through photographs, textures and time in digital collages.

5-7 pm

JOON HEE KIM: YOU, ME, US Kouri + Corrao Gallery

3213 Calle Marie, (505) 820-1888

Kim’s ceramic works examine her heritage through the lenses of multiple influences. (See SFR Picks, page 17.)

5-7 pm

ORALIA LOPEZ POTTERY DEMONSTRATION AND NEW WORKS

Andrea Fisher Fine Pottery

100 W San Francisco St., (505) 986-1234

View potter Lopez’s creative process as she creates finely detailed geometric designs.   Noon-4 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES

CYNTHIA JURS: SUMMONED BY THE EARTH

Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse

202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226

Jurs discusses her novel, a riveting account of her relationship with elders, activists and diverse communities.

6 pm

DANCE

APRÈS SKI WITH SPOOLIUS

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

An unforgettable experience with house and techno.

8-11 pm

EL FLAMENCO CABARET

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

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

FILM

GROWN-UP MOVIE NIGHT: THE COLOR PURPLE

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, (505) 466-7323

A free screening of musical period film The Color Purple (2023), for adults. 6:30-8:30 pm

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Performance Santa Fe presents

Le Nuove Musiche

The Baroque Revolution in Europe (1560–1660)

Tuesday, April 16 I 7:30 pm Lensic Performing Arts Center

PerformanceSantaFe.org |

Winter Lecture Series

Dr. Thomas Chavez

The Diplomacy of Independence: Benjamin Franklin and Spain March 26 | 6pm, Doors at 5:30pm

St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art

$10, Free for Las Golondrinas and MNMF Members

Explore the fascinating ways that Benjamin Franklin secured aid for the American Revolution from Spain, a little-known part of history that contributed to the success of the revolution. Go to golondrinas.org to reserve tickets.

THE CALENDAR

THREE NEW VIDEOS BY CARLOS GONZALEZ

No Name Cinema

2013 Pinon St., nonamecinema.org

Three video shorts exploring “new frontiers of depravity.”

7:30 pm, $5-$15

MUSIC

A HUNDRED DRUMS

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Experimental hip-hop and high-octane psychedelic bass.

11:50 pm, $23

CHARLES TICHENOR

Los Magueyes

Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

A well-crafted kaleidoscope of piano tunes and lyrics.

6-9 pm

COUNTRY NIGHT

Santa Fe Brewing Company

35 Fire Place, (505) 424-3333

Country music from Sim Balkey and his Honky Tonk Crew.

6 pm

DON CURRY

Ahmyo River Gallery Wine Garden

652 Canyon Road, (505) 820 0969

A variety of classic rock jams.

2-5 pm

FELIX Y LOS GATOS

Cowgirl

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

Blues from a local fave.

7 pm

MATT AXTON & BADMOON

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

A humble slice of Americana. 7:30-8 pm, $15-$20 MIDWIFE, VYVA

MELINKOLYA AND BODY/ NEGATIVE

Ghost

2899 Trades West Road, instagram.com/ghost_santafe Heavy and heavenly experimental pop music.  8 pm

SECOND CHANCES COUNTRY BAND

Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952 Country jams.  6-9 pm

SILVER SKY BLUES BAND

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

Rock out to the blues!

8 pm

STEPHEN PITTS AND FRIENDS

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

5 pm

J.S. BACH’S BIRTHDAY

First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544

An organist’s performance celebrating Bach’s work.

5:30 pm

TERRY DIERS

Boxcar

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

Blues, rock and funk tunes.

6-8 pm

THOMAS HINDS

Kitchen Sink Recording Studio 528 Jose St., (505) 699-4323

A hard-touring troubadour with a heartfelt folk-rock repertoire. 7:30 pm, $20

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.

7:30 pm

OR, Santa Fe Playhouse

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

A neo-Restoration comedy about Aphra Behn: poet, spy and first 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

FINE ART FRIDAY

Santa Fe Children’s Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359

Create cherry blossom artwork. 2-4 pm

STAINED GLASS SUNCATCHER WORKSHOP

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Create an up-cycled stained glass masterpiece.  5-8 pm, $195

SAT/23

BOOKS/LECTURES

AUTHOR EVENT WITH DEBORAH JACKSON TAFFA

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

Author of memoir Whiskey

Tender Jackson Taffa (Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo), reads, followed by a discussion with renowned poet Layli Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota).  4:30-5:30 pm

COMPOSITIONS: A MATERIAL

CONTINUATION

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-1199

A multidisciplinary presentation with artist Christine Corday, accompanied by a performance from violinist Karina Wilson.  2-3:30 pm, $5

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FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE

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

A bargain book blowout! FOL members get a 10 am preview. 11 am-4 pm

SOAK-STAIN: A MATERIAL CONVERSATION

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-1199

Artist Christine Corday and scholar Douglas Dreishpoon discuss the legacy of Helen Frankenthaler’s art.

10-11:30 am, $5

DANCE

CABARET PARADISO

Paradiso

903 Early St., (505) 577-5248

Belly dance, burlesque, drag, pole-dance, hip-hop, poetry and more. Ages 18 and up. 7:30 pm, $25

CONTRA DANCE

Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, (505) 690-4165

Community folk dance.  7-10:30 pm, $0-$10

EL FLAMENCO CABARET

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

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

EVENTS

EASTER EGG HUNT

Municipal Recreation Complex 205 Caja del Rio Road, (505) 312-3003

Hunt for eggs filled with prizes. 9:45 am

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

FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

A celebration of the videos that time forgot, dredged up in dusty thrift stores and estate sales.

(See 3 Questions, page 22.)

8 pm, $25

MARCH RADNESS RAIL JAM

Ski Santa Fe 1477 NM-475, (505) 982-4429

Snowboarders and skiers of all ages compete for prizes. Noon-3 pm

NEAL MCCOY

Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail, (505) 455-5555

Do “The Shake” at this ‘90s country show.

8 pm, $50-$186

SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

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

Artists sell fine art and crafts.

9 am-2 pm

SCIENCE SATURDAY

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

Activities for young engineers.

2-4 pm

FILM

PAAQTUQ: A TUPIK MI

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

A film focused on traditional Inuit tattooing as a way to find identity, healing and strength.

(See SFR Picks, page 17.)

2-4 pm

MUSIC

BAROQUE HOLY WEEK

First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544

Music by women composers from the French court of the Sun King, Louis XIV (1638–1715).

7:30 pm, $27-$67

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

Piano tunes.

6-9 pm

CURRY SPRINGER DUO

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

Don Curry and Pete Springer harmonize.

1 pm

FIREBIRD FM

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

Original classic rock anthems, supported by synthwave stunners Gullfire Waiting.

8 pm

FREDDIE SCHWARTZ

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

Playing the “whole gamut” of rock, Americana and country. 2-5 pm

HALF BROKE HORSES

Ski Santa Fe 1477 NM-475, (505) 982-4429

An afternoon of honky tonk and Americana.

11 am-3 pm

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

Country artist Coleman Williams IV honors his roots. 7:30 pm, $30

ISAIS DURAN

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

A one-man act that sounds like an eight-piece band, playing jams from Sinatra to Metallica. 6 pm

JOHNNY LLOYD

Nuckolls Brewing Co. 1611 Alcaldesa St., nuckollsbrewing.com

A country favorite.  4-6 pm

MATT AXTON & BADMOON

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

A humble slice of Americana. Bring your dancing shoes and get ready to boogie!

7 pm, $15-$20

ODD DOG

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

Playing old favorites from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen.

3 pm

REGGAE NIGHTS

Santa Fe Brewing Company

35 Fire Place, (505) 424-3333

Reggae music from Boomroots Collective, Iriebellion and Selecta Deecee.

7 pm

THE CALENDAR

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.  2 pm, $30-$60

ROMÉO ET JULIETTE

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

Two singers at the height of their powers portray the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation.

11 am, $15-$28

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

GARDEN BOOKS: A BOOK

ARTS WORKSHOP

Santa Fe Library (La Farge) 1730 Llano St., (505) 955-4862

Create an accordion book using collage, embellishment and text.  1-3 pm

ORIGAMI & COCKTAILS

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Build origami models in a laidback social atmosphere. 4-6 pm, $30

RADIANT REALM WITHIN WORKSHOP

Santa Fe Community Yoga 3229 Richards Lane, Ste. B, (505) 820-9363

Bring in fresh energy through yoga, qigong, breath exercises and guided journey. Email radiantrealmwithin@gmail.com. 2-3:30 pm, $35

TRINITY SOUL Cowgirl

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

Rock, reggae, funk and soul.  8 pm

THEATER

BORN WITH TEETH

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

Kit Marlowe and William Shakespeare navigate the perils of art under a totalitarian regime.

7:30 pm, $30-$60

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

EVENTS

EL MERCADO DE EL MUSEO CULTURAL

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

Seelling art, textiles and more.  10 am-4 pm

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Boxcar

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

Seven rounds of quiz for prizes! 7:30 pm

NEW MEXICO WINE TRAIN

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

Vino on Sky Railway. 1:30 pm, $139

PURIM IN THE DELI

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

Celebrate the spring Jewish holiday Purim with music, dancing and deli food. RSVP at santafejcc.com/delipurim. 5 pm, $20-$36

FILM

FEMME FRONTERA FILMMAKER SHOWCASE

New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5100

Latine-led film organization

Femme Frontera presents a selection of seven films that center the experiences of women and LGBTQ people from border regions around the world. (See SFR Picks, page 17.) 2-4 pm

MUSIC

ALVIN GILL-TAPIA: UNVEILING

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

Painter Gill-Tapia unveils his next artwork. 5-7 pm

BAROQUE HOLY WEEK

SUN/24

BOOKS/LECTURES

JESSICA MUNSON: ON MAYA INEQUALITY AT THE ALTAR DE SACRIFICIOS, Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 982-1200

Archaeologist Munson delivers a lecture focused on her expertise in Maya Archaeology, formative Meso-america, community organization, ritual writing and architecture.

6 pm, $20

DANCE

BASIC SWING DANCE CLASS

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

Learn swing dance with teachers Mike and Elli every Sunday. RSVP required. 5:30-6:15 pm, $15-$20

First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544

Music by women composers from the court of King Louis XIV.  3 pm, $27-$67

DISCOVERY SERIES: THE EXOTIC LIVES OF FRENCH BAROQUE WOMEN COMPOSERS

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

Soprano Clara Rottsolk and harpsichordist David Solem explore women composers and singers from the 17th century. 10-11 am

HONDO COYOTE

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

Feel-good country tunes. 3 pm

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

Crash Romeo hosts karaoke. 7 pm

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Illustrator and sculptor Corey Feder’s clay pigment paintings will be on view at smoke the moon in An Iris Between Us , a show opening on March 29.

COURTESY SMOKE THE MOON

Brunch at 9 am

Music by Chris Harrell

Labyrinth presentation/indoor Labyrinth Walk at 11 am

"The History, Mystery and Synergy of Labyrinths"

Presented by Chris Harrell and Julie Bastine, Music by Glee Briggs

Outdoor

$25

www.chicenter.com/sundays

For more than 20 years, dedicated video enthusiasts Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have taken their love of found footage and created a touring comedy show, during which they show the best clips while providing commentary. Of course, the term “found footage” can be nebulous, so let’s make this perfectly clear: Prueher and Pickett are a lot more interested in the forgotten gold nuggets from the heyday of VHS in the ‘80s and ‘90s. We’re talkin’ strange instructional videos, training movies, self-made local commercials, home videos left behind in thrift stores—y’know, the dregs. We spoke with Prueher ahead of the duo’s upcoming Meow Wolf appearance (8 pm Saturday, March 23. $25. 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369) to find out how the Found Footage Festival has lasted, the reason forgotten tapes might be more important than you think and why sincerity goes a long way in the humor biz. This interview has been edited for clarity and concision. (Alex De Vore)

The pandemic meant a transition from touring to online shows and embracing more online footage. How has touring again affected curation and the fest?

On April 3, it will be 20 years of being on the road and touring with the fest as our full-time job, and we still love it. We kind of feel like the right environment to watch these forgotten VHS clips is a dark room with a bunch of weirdos. On the other hand, being on the road that much is pretty exhausting. In our 20s, it was really fun to go to a new thrift store and find tapes; or, once, we did a show in Richmond, Virgina, and someone asked, ‘do you wanna see where we make the Gwar costumes?’ so of course we were like, ‘yes, we’ll go to the Gwar workshop.’

But it gets fatiguing after 20 years, so when we had to pivot to doing a weekly online show called VCR Party, which is way more breezy and off-the-cuff than our live shows, it was refreshing. We also found this whole new group of like-minded people who enjoy the content. In the main show, we still don’t play anything that’s an internet video, but occasionally we’ll do a one-off

show where it’s some sort of a VCR Party Live show.

Do you consider the collection, the festival, an archival pursuit?

It never was, but we’re starting to take the archival part more seriously now that creators of shows are like, ‘I have no way to access the show I made that took up three years of my life.’ Not only that, but streaming things [sometimes removes] content you want to see.

In the past year, we’ve...photographed every tape in our collection—13,000 tapes. These aren’t the [American Film Intsitute] Top 100 with, like, a nonprofit dedicated to their preservation; these tapes came with a beard trimmer and show you how to use it. We’re not getting a university grant to do it, but we have our assistant, and people who like what we do, take photos, make a JPEG, write down all the information [so] we have kind of a searchable database for these tapes. The next step is digitizing...so there’s some record of these tapes that time forgot.

In the VHS collecting community, it’s mostly horror movies, whereas we have exercise videos, training tapes, promo videos, strangers’ home movies, and we’ve realized across 20 years, we’re kind of it for these. But it’s kind of because the pathos comes through. In the best tapes, you see the humanity, and I think that’s valuable and worth hanging onto. It’s sort of the wartsand-all part of our videotape history. The Howard Zinn version. Without getting too serious, it’s a more truthful account of our culture than if we’re looking at the those AFI [Top 100] films.

Would 20-years-ago you be shocked by all this?

It’s funny, I never looked at this as a career. Joe and I have known each other since we were 10, and we’ve been collecting videos and showing them to friends since 1991. It went from basements to dorm rooms to apartments, but it always felt like this very specific thing us and our group of friends thought was funny. I never thought and am still amazed by the fact that there are other people who find this as funny as we do and appreciate it. I would be, I think, shocked, if 20-year-ago me were to say ‘you’re still doing this? We’re heading out on a UK tour?’ These videos we literally found in dumpsters, at jobs we had in high school. Now there’s a whole audience of folks online and around the world who come to the show and appreciate it and are part of the joke. One thing we’ve always been conscious of is not being insular. So many communities can be gatekeeper-y, and we’ve never been like that. It’s more: Be part of this really weird inside joke. I think that’s a testament to why it’s lasted so long. I think if it were a snarky disposable thing, it wouldn’t still be around.

With the Found Footage Festival Co-founder Nick Prueher

COURTESY NICK PRUEHER

SILVER SKY BLUES BAND

Cowgirl

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

Rock out to the blues! Noon

SWING SOLEIL

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

An all-acoustic swing-jazz manouche band.

1-4 pm

TROY BROWNE TRIO

Ski Santa Fe 1477 NM-475, (505) 982-4429

A wide range of catchy contemporary songwriting. 11 am-3 pm

THEATER

BORN WITH TEETH

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

Kit Marlowe and William Shakespeare navigate 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

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

WORKSHOP

POETRY INCUBATOR

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Red)

1366 Cerrillos Road, (505) 428-0996

Make poet friends and write from prompts.  6-8 pm

MON/25

BOOKS/LECTURES

PRECIOUS RESOURCE:

WATER MANAGEMENT IN SANTA FE

Montezuma Lodge

431 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 982-0971

The story of the past, present and future of water development and use in Santa Fe.

5:45-7:30 pm

DANCE

MONDAY NIGHT SWING

Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, (505) 690-4165

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

EVENTS

KIDS SING ALONG: QUEEN

BEE MUSIC ASSOCIATION

Queen Bee Music Association

1596 Pacheco St., (505) 278-0012

Music games and sing-alongs for toddlers and babies.  10:30 am

MUSIC

HANNAH WICKLUND

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Ethereal texturing, smoky falsetto vocals, string section surprises and guitar solos that carry equal parts pain and joy. 8 pm, $15-$20

KARAOKE WITH CRASH!

Cowgirl

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

Start the week with karaoke. 7-10 pm

TERRY DIERS

Cowgirl

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

Blues, rock and funk.

4 pm

THEATER

YOUNG CREATORS PROJECT

Santa Fe Public Library (Southside)

6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

Theater skills for ages 9-16. 3:45-5:30 pm

TUE/26

BOOKS/LECTURES

THE DIPLOMACY OF INDEPENDENCE: BENJAMIN

FRANKLIN AND SPAIN

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

Thomas Chavez explores the fascinating ways Franklin secured aid for the American Revolution from Spain. 6 pm, $10

VIVACE BOOK CLUB

Santa Fe Public Library (Main Branch)

145 Washington Ave., (505) 955-2839

A lively discussion of William Berger’s Verdi With a Vengeance 2-3 pm

FILM

OFF THE CHARTS: THE SONGPOEM STORY Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

A documentary about the song-poem industry, where ordinary people send poems to companies that turn them into musical productions. 6 pm, $13

MUSIC

ANDY FRASCO

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

Playing across genres with horn-blasted positivity.  7:30 pm, $29

JEFF MANN Cowgirl

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

Singer-songwriter tunes. 4 pm

LATIN SINDUSTRY NIGHT Boxcar

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

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

10 pm

THE DOWNTOWN BLUES JAM Evangelo’s 200 W San Francisco St., (505) 982-9014

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

WORKSHOP

UNDERSTANDING YOUR MIND - DEVELOPING CONCENTRATION

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

Participants learn to use five special parts of their minds. This session’s topic is: “the importance of concentration.” 6-7:30 pm

ONGOING

ART OPENINGS

5TH ANNUAL FOTO FORUM MEMBERS SHOW

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

More than 60 photos from Foto Forum members.

A TENUOUS THREAD

form & concept

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

Master weaver Bhakti Ziek’s work encapsulates a lifetime dedication to fiber work.

ALEX KATZ + DAMIEN HIRST

Nüart Gallery

670 Canyon Road, (505) 988-3888

Two artists' floral prints. Katz's use smooth aesthetics of abstract expressionism, and Hirst's radiate with the beauty of cherry blossoms.

ANDREW DASBURG:

SYMPHONIC DRAWINGS

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

Western cubist landscape works from 1930s Taos.

ANNELL LIVINGSTON: LIGHTS

SHADOWS REFLECTIONS

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

Livingston's hard-edged, gridded paintings set her apart in an age dominated by precision.

ASHTON THORNHILL:

REFLECTIVE LIGHT

Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, (505) 466-7323

Thornhill's work captures the beauty of Southwest landscapes and horizons.

BLASFEMME: A REVERENCE FOR RENEGADES

Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road, (505) 986-9800

A mosaic of womens' creative rebellion over generations.

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COLCHA OF NEW MEXICO: THE LEGACY OF BEATRICE

MAESTAS SANDOVAL

Abiquiú Inn

21120 Hwy. 84, Abiquiú,, (505) 685-4378

Colcha embroidery works, rugs and tinwork.

CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART

Blue Rain Gallery

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

Pueblo pottery, glass sculpture, jewelry and paintings.

DANIEL JOHNSTON: NOW IS NOWHERE ELSE

Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700 Clay brick pottery.

DANILA RUMOLD: TRANSFORMATIONS

Pie Projects

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

Mixed media works and pigments on Kozo paper paintings.

ELIZABETH HOHIMER: MAPS OF AFFECTION

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

Intuitive and deeply personal woven paintings.

GEORGIA CARBONE: THE TRANSCENDENTAL GATE ELECTR∆ Gallery

825 Early St., Ste D, (505) 231-0354

Watercolor and ink drawings and oil paintings that examine the human experience of spirit.

GILBERTO GUZMAN: SPECIAL COLLECTION

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

Powerful images of ethnic reality and struggle, emotion and pain.

I SAY WITH MY FULL ESSENCE

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

Seven contemporary women artists who uniquely address their individual histories.

JOHN DETWEILER PAINTINGS

Guadalupe Center

333 Montezuma Ave., (505) 310-8440

Paintings questioning the impact of our media-dominated world.

KATHERINE PORTER: BRILLIANCE OF SPONTANEITY UNTAMED

LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250 Abstract paintings.

LEO GONZALES: SUMMONINGS

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

A post-apocalyptic vision within intricate oil paintings.

LOUISA MCELWAIN: DISTANT THUNDER

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

Bold paintings of the Southwest.

MADELIN COIT & MARGARET

FITZGERALD

Pie Projects

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

Coit and Fitzgerald’s works reference graffiti and neon lights.

MARTIN FERREYRA: DIOSES Y

GUERREROS

Hecho a Mano

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

Ferreyra references the clothing and tools of Aztec warriors and the textiles of Oaxacan communities in his printmaking, painting, sculpture, weavings and clothing.

NIGHT DRIVE

Best Western 4328 Airport Road, (713) 530-7066

Carrie Cook creates scenes that merge the memory of the sleepy gulf coasts of her past with the landscape of the LA freeways of her present.

RANDALL WILSON: EARTH

AND SKY

Gerald Peters Contemporary

1011 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700

Wilson's wood carvings are anchored in the folk-art tradition of the Southwest.

ROGER WINTER: JAZZ SET

Gerald Peters Contemporary

1011 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700

Winter employs a bright palette, motifs and unsuspecting compositional choices in paintings of his favorite jazz musicians.

SPRING DREAM

Hecho a Mano

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

This multimedia show invites audiences to inhabit the subconscious sphere, both personal and collective. Includes ceramics, pastels, landscape paintings, screen printing and Romanticstyle psintings.

SUE LLEWELLYN: A RETROSPECTIVE

Susan Eddings Pérez Galley 717 Canyon Road, (505) 477-4ART

Llewellyn's illustrations throughout the stages of her career, from early sketches to more recent. whimsical works.

THE MOVIES

Monroe Gallery of Photography 112 Don Gaspar Ave., (505) 992-0800

Photographs from classic films of the 20th Century.

TIM REED: SILLY LOVE SONGS

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

Psychedelic multimedia works. More work is concurrently on display at Iconik's Red and Lupe locations.

TRADING FACES

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery

222 Delgado St., (928) 308-0319

All-new multimedia artworks in the form of paintings, drawings and prints.

WOMEN SPIRIT 2024

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

An exhibit celebrating the gallery's women artists with fine art, fiber art, jewelry and weavings.

SUBMIT YOUR ARTWORK

FOR THE 100TH BURNING OF ZOZOBRA ART CONTEST

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

Submit your artwork either online or to the Boys & Girls Club to design posters and T-shirt images for the Official 100th Burning of Zozobra. Deadline is April 5 at 5 pm. For more info, email the Kiwanis Club at art@burnzozobra.com.

More than 100 historic sculptures made from a Mexican paper-and-paste sculpting tradition are on display at La Cartonería Mexicana / The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste at the Museum of International Folk Art.

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. 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

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. Art of the Bullfight.

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

SITE SANTA FE

1606 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-1199

You Are Here. Folded Stone. I’m Nobody! Who Are You?

10 am-5 pm, Sat-Mon., 10 am-5 pm, Thurs, 10 am-7 pm, Fri; Free.

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

ADDISON DOTY. A.1979.3.359X

Jamie Figueroa’s Mother Island interrogates our relationship with memory in a colonized world

BY ANNABELLA FARMER author@sfreporter.com

“Creativityand imagination is a sovereign space, a space to heal, a space to connect, a space to honor what is mine to say in this life, and include those whose voices were never included,” Santa Fe-based author Jamie Figueroa tells SFR.

Figueroa’s debut memoir, Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico (Pantheon, Mar. 19), delves into a genre-bending exploration of her identity as a Boricua (AfroTaíno) woman raised in the Midwest by a Puerto Rican mother who had been abandoned by her family.

Growing up, Figueroa struggled to understand her own identity and cultural lineage in the face of pressures to assimilate to mainstream white culture. Writing was—and remains, she says—her way to reconstruct identity and lineage after generations’ worth of silence and oppression. Bringing the concept of ceremony into her work has become a means to open a conversation with her ancestors and future generations.

Figueroa’s approach to memoir as memory is unconventional. Throughout Mother Island, she introduces scene-memories

with the important qualifier that she is sometimes an unreliable narrator. While writing a memoir necessitates confronting one’s own memories and examining their accuracy, the process wasn’t straightforward for Figueroa. In the book, for example, she examines how trauma can affect one’s ability to remember, resulting in gaps and frayed memories; writing Mother Island made her grapple with such inaccuracies. Figueroa worked from notebooks she’d kept across 15 years. She also tried to cross-reference a timeline of events with her sister. Neither could remember the experiences clearly.

“Some people might say, ‘Well, then you can’t write a memoir,’” Figueroa says. “But my feeling was, I’m not going to let it stop me from telling my story— it’s an important story to tell.”

Instead of relying only on clearcut memories, Figueroa arrived at a blended storytelling method that weaves memory with poetry, myth with traditional stories. She also lets her readers know when her memories are thin. This approach speaks to a theme that extends beyond the book’s narrative.

“For those of us who’ve been historically dismembered through colonization,” Figueroa explains, “remembering is part of putting our pieces back together to make a whole.”

And that’s not just on an individual level.

“It’s a larger call to fill yourself out in relation to place, to your cultural ways, to your traditional language, traditional knowledge and the stories of your family if that’s accessible,” she says.

When it’s not, Figueroa posits, you can get creative. In Mother Island, she references myth and folklore to fill out her lived experiences. When her memory falters, she constellates her own experience with an archetypal journey.

“Those of us who have multi-racial, multi-heritage identities, there’s never one box that we fit in,” Figueroa says.

Though the prose in Mother Island veers into what some might call magical realism, Figueroa rejects the term, which she says

she sees as a way to minimize or discredit “cultures that are much more multidimensional in how they consider time and reality.”

“Realism is different to each person, and to each racial and ethnic group,” she continues, pointing to the reality that exists for Indigenous communities coping with missing and murdered peoples. “If that’s not your reality, and you’re reading or looking at a piece of art about that, you might be tempted to call it something that minimizes its power just because it’s not your experience.”

Figueroa prefers the term “liminal fiction,” noting: “It’s a true space that exists in between. From dreaming to waking, from one right passage to another, when we’re in the throes of a birth, or of a passing—things bend and warp in ways that go beyond our day to day language.”

On a personal level, Figueroa wrote Mother Island in part to exorcize family stories that had been haunting her fiction. But on a communal level, she says, it’s time to tell more of the stories that re-assemble identities so people can determine how to exist in relation to themselves and each other.

“Historically, what has not been honestly dealt with has festered for so long that it’s coming to every surface,” she says, adding that all of humanity’s current challenges—global pandemic, genocide, climate crisis—are ”a call for us to turn towards ourselves in our own context and to consider how we belong and what our own stories are, no matter who you are on the planet; tracing yourself back to groups of people with cultures intact, who had language, stories, poetry and songs that expressed the essence of who they were and what they believed and how they moved in the world.”

This, she says, is invaluable knowledge to better orient ourselves toward imagining the future.

Hotel Me More

Eldorado’s Hotel & Spa’s Agave might be pricey—but it’s worth the splurge

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

After my January visit to the Hilton Santa Fe’s Ortiz restaurant (one that culminated in a new top five green chile cheeseburger on my personal list, btw) I started to ask myself whether I’ve been sleeping on hotel restaurants. Don’t get me wrong, I’m aware they exist, I’ve enjoyed a few— heck, Del Charro is technically a hotel restaurant/bar, and lord knows I’ve gone to town on a burger/margarita over there more times than should be allowed. Turns out, I’ve totally been sleeping on hotel restaurants, and Agave within the Eldorado Hotel & Spa (309 W San Francisco St., (505) 995-4530) might just be the most splurge-worthy restaurant in Santa Fe right now.

In fact, mere days after the Ortiz sojourn, a number of readers reached out with some semblance of the same message, and I’m paraphrasing here: “Look, dude, you’ve gotta try Agave. Chef Antonio Sandoval is a magician. Why do you hate good food?”

As I absolutely do not hate good food, I dropped by the restaurant on a recent blustery night, and I might just need everyone to try and do the same if my insistence it’s an underrated joint is to carry any weight.

Agave’s ambiance impressed from the moment my companion and I entered the door. Up a small stairway, we hit the bar seating area, a minimalist bit of Santa Fe-ish decor (which I mean that it’s almost like a one-time visitor’s understanding of what design should look like; but Agave’s in a downtown hotel, so of course it is) and welcoming fireplaces. The massive bar itself looms wrap-around style in the next room and in the center of everything—trés Cheers; no Woody—and the friendly wait staff greeted us with sincere vigor. Wild.

never bothers me when dining. Our server Allison appeared almost immediately, and proved exactly my kind of server: a student of human behavior who at first dips a toe in banter-wise but, by the end of the meal, comfortably tells you and your date she thinks you’re super-cool. She also had that earnest friendliness that’s so valuable in a waiter. This, coupled with easily the most comfortable chair I’ve ever found in my life—restaurant or no— and the meal was off to a good start.

Agave’s menu teems with exciting options courtesy of chef Sandoval. We could easily have made a meal from the starters alone, which include a charcuterie board with fresh meats and cheeses ($25); crispy brussels sprouts with bacon ($12); and asparagus wrapped in prosciutto ($14), among other options. Something about the sweet chili-garlic shrimp with chorizo called our name, though, and our server’s insistence that it’s the best starter on the menu had merit. Sandoval must be some kind of shrimp genius, because his lightly-seared version ranks among the most expertly cooked I’ve tasted—and I’ve lived near the sea. Firm and warm, they came served with two chunks of grill-kissed bread

we scarfed an order of phenomenally tasty $6 fries, as well. Just know that.

Agave also boasts three classic salads: The house with fresh greens, roasted red peppers and corn, plus queso fresco and an avocado ranch dressing ($14); the classic Caesar with red chile-infused croutons ($15); and the wedge with heirloom cherry tomatoes, bacon crumbles and blue cheese ($16). Each can be augmented with chicken, shrimp, steak or salmon ($9-$14), and that’s precisely what my date did with the wedge salad.

With the exception of a young family— whose discussion of their day skiing I overheard—and a couple of bar patrons, Agave was relatively empty. Chalk this up to the recent cold snap, along with fewer hotel guests in the shoulder season, but a quiet night

that added a slight crisp to the overall dish (crisp is the best texture, if you didn’t know). The chorizo came cured, which is to say borderline hard, akin to jerky. In Sandoval’s hands, it might be my new favorite chorizo of all time, and its particular tang and salt counterbalanced the richness of the shrimp. Oh,

“This salmon is cooked perfectly,” she noted. “I’ve never had a piece of salmon this delicious.”

High praise indeed.

I opted for the Kurobuta pork chop with creamy cheddar polenta and crispy brussels sprouts served atop a red chile demi-glace ($43), and I’m glad I did. Regular readers will no doubt be familiar with the time I sang the praises of a similar dish at downtown eatery La Mama from chef Jordan Isaacson (Mama Mia, Nov. 2023), and though that tender sous vide number still haunts my dreams, Sandoval’s—which could not have been more different—will live alongside it in infamy. A firmer cut of bone-in pork served grilled, Agave’s version helped create interlocking flavors with the sprouts and red chile demi. The polenta worked its magic, too, by adding a little bit of creaminess to the dish. Sandoval’s chop was also an excellent size, especially for someone who’d already eaten fries and shrimp. Even better, Sandoval sidestepped the most common brussels sprouts pitfalls—his has enough snap to be demon-

strably fresh, but were cooked well enough to be tender.

We closed the meal with the mango crème brûlée, which came warm and topped with a generous bit of whipped cream. Crème brûlée remains one of those restaurant litmus tests—if you can’t serve up a good one, maybe it’s time to pack up the shingle. Agave’s had obviously been brûlée’d mere moments before it hit the table, and as the refreshing mango flavors met with the sweet kiss of the crunchy top and the brilliantly thick whipped cream, we had difficulty answering our server Alison when she came back to check on us.

“Iff fooooo good!” I practically shouted, my mouth full. “I’d like to be alone with it now.”

As we had with the other dishes, we left practically nothing behind, but that tiny bit of pork chop sitting in my fridge today should tamp down at least some of the craving I’m still feeling. Agave is a beautiful restaurant with a fine dining air and a menu to match. And though I know it’s more of a splurge than everyday folks might be able to swing, I urge anyone with taste buds to stop in. No notes, Antonio Sandoval. No notes at all.

Go ahead and splurge on Agave chef Antonio Sandoval’s cuisine.

ALEX DE VORE

ABOUT DRY GRASSES

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Love Lies Bleeding Review

Things are getting out of hand in Rose Glass’s new and nauseating thriller

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Yeah, yeah, yeah—Love Lies Bleeding filmed in New Mexico, let’s just get that out of the way. And though the location remains unnamed throughout Saint Maude director Rose Glass’s newest work, its panoramic vistas and oppressive light and dark environs go a long way toward setting a sickly tone. Then all hell breaks loose.

Said tone works almost perfectly for the meat of the film, one wherein an exhausted Lou (Kristen Stewart) manages a meathead-magnet gym circa 1980-something (you can tell by the shoes!). Lou’s sister (Jena Malone) and father (Ed Harris) also live in Whateverville, USA, though she doesn’t speak to her father and her sister’s abusive husband (a perfectly slimy and hateable Dave Franco) keeps our kinda-sorta heroine at arm’s length from the rest of the family.

Enter Jackie (Mandalorian alum Katy O’Brian, who dominates Love Lies Bleeding with vigor), a body builder type with her eye on winning a big upcoming muscle competition in Las Vegas. She and Lou fall in

+ GRIPPING; EMOTIONALLY CHARGED; - LONG TO THE POINT OF BORDERLINE SELF-INDULGENCE

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 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.

love hard and fast, and not just because of the gym’s steroid culture. But when Lou’s brother in law assaults her sister, Jackie snaps, leading to a clandestine standoff with Lou’s dad. It only escalates from there.

Glass, who also co-wrote the script, has a penchant for showing rather than telling. Never do we learn precisely what Lou’s dad is mixed up in, but fleeting interstitial scenes present him as some sort of gun and/or drug-runner. Harris slays here with the sort of dead-eyed terror he cultivated in 2005’s A History of Violence, and played against Lou’s brand of reckless disregard for health and personal safety, a sickening dynamic emerges. But make no mistake—this is O’Brian’s film, and her burgeoning ’roid rage and wide-eyed naïveté are gripping if for no other reason than we almost want to protect her. The same goes for K-Stew, who so deftly performs anxiety and depres-

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 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. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 197 min.

DUNE: PART TWO

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- 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

sion that you’d almost need to have experienced those disorders to pick up on the subtleties.

Love Lies Bleeding moves pretty quickly, too, but its economically paced storytelling keeps us on our toes. Is it a gangster movie? An homage to thrillers like Kill Bill? A love story? An anti-love story? Yes, all of the above. At its core lies a distorted moral about wanting better for oneself, too, and the lengths to which one might go for love, even if—or especially because—it’s that fucked up kind of love that burns with alarming intensity. This is a weird one, but imminently watchable.

LOVE LIES BLEEDING

Directed by Glass

With Stewart, O’Brian, Malone, Franco and Harris Violet Crown, R, 104 min.

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 Fremen—desert folk with lives consisting of activities like extracting water from dead bodies, worshipping/ 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 lessons he learned at the look-sadlyat-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.

by Matt Jones

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39 “SNL” alum Horatio

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53 “Roots” author Haley

54 “Anchorman” anchorman Burgundy

55 Colts’ fathers

56 Big wheel

57 Rapper/actor who’s good at holding together documents?

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9 The Beatles’ “___ Blues”

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21 Scales of the zodiac

23 1998 Wimbledon champ Novotna

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25 Yokels, in Australian slang

27 Andre the Giant’s role in “The Princess Bride”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I suspect you will soon have far more beginners’ luck than you ever thought possible. For best results—to generate even more wildly abundant torrents of good luck—you could adopt what Zen Buddhists called “beginner’s mind.” That means gazing upon everyone and everything as if encountering it for the first time. Here are other qualities I expect to be flowing freely through you in the coming weeks: spontaneity, curiosity, innocence, candor, and unpredictability. To the degree that you cultivate these states, you will invite even more beginner’s luck into your life.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus artist Salvador Dali was prone to exaggerate for dramatic effect. We should remember that as we read his quote: “Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: Rationalize them; understand them thoroughly.” While that eccentric advice may not always be 100-percent accurate or useful, I think it will be true and helpful for you in the coming weeks. Have maximum fun making sacred mistakes, Taurus! Learn all you can from them. Use them to improve your life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The professional fun advisors here at Free Will Astrology International Headquarters have concluded that your Party Hardy Potential Rating for the coming weeks is 9.8 (out of 10). In fact, this may be the Party Hardy Phase of the Year for you. You could gather the benefits of maximum revelry and conviviality with minimal side effects. Here’s a meditation to get you in the right mood: Imagine mixing business and pleasure with such panache that they blend into a gleeful, fruitful synergy.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian author and psychotherapist Virginia Satir (1916–1988) was renowned as the “Mother of Family Therapy.” Her research led her to conclude, “We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” That 12-hug recommendation seems daunting to achieve, but I hope you will strive for it in the coming weeks. You are in a phase when maximum growth is possible—and pushing to the frontiers of hugging will help you activate the full potential. (PS: Don’t force anyone to hug you. Make sure it’s consensual.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you been genuinely amazed anytime recently? Have you done something truly amazing? If not, it’s time to play catch-up. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you need and deserve exciting adventures that boggle your soul in all the best ways. You should be wandering out on the frontiers and tracking down provocative mysteries. You could grow even smarter than you already are if you expose yourself to challenges that will amaze you and inspire you to be amazing.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I invite you to perform a magic spell that will help prepare you for the rich, slippery soul work you have ahead of you. I’ll offer a suggestion, but feel free to compose your own ritual. First, go outside where it’s raining or misting, or find a waterfall. Stand with your legs apart and arms spread out as you turn your face up toward the falling moisture. As you drink it in, tell yourself you will be extra fluid and flowing in the coming weeks. Promise yourself you will stimulate and treasure succulent feelings. You will cultivate the sensation that everything you need is streaming in your direction.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You are gliding into the climax of your re-education about togetherness, intimacy, and collaboration. The lessons you’ve been learning have deepened your reservoir of wisdom about the nature of love. And in the coming weeks, even further teachings will arrive; even more openings and invitations will be available. You will be offered the chance to earn what could in effect be a master’s

degree in relationships. It’ll be challenging work, but rewarding and interesting. Do as best as you can. Don’t demand perfection from yourself or anyone else.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Now is not a favorable phase to gamble on unknown entities. Nor should you allow seemingly well-meaning people to transgress your boundaries. Another Big No: Don’t heed the advice of fear-mongers or nagging scolds, whether they’re inside or outside your head. On the other hand, dear Scorpio, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for the following actions. 1. Phase out attachments to alliances and love interests that have exhausted their possibilities. 2. Seek the necessary resources to transform or outgrow a frustrating fact about your life.

3. Name truths that other people seem intent on ignoring and avoiding. 4. Conjure simple, small, slow, practical magic to make simple, small, slow, practical progress.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Falling in love is fun! It’s also exciting, enriching, inspiring, transformative, world-shaking, and educational. Wouldn’t it be fabulous if we could keep falling in love anew three or four times a year for as long as we live? We might always be our best selves, showing our most creative and generous sides, continually expanding our power to express our soulful intelligence. Alas, it’s not practical or realistic to always be falling in love with another new person. Here’s a possible alternative: What if we enlarged our understanding of what we could fall in love with? Maybe we would become perpetually infatuated with brilliant teachings, magical places, high adventures, and great art and music. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to cultivate this skill.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’m perplexed by spiritual teachers who fanatically preach the doctrine that we should BE HERE NOW as much as possible. Living with full enjoyment in the present moment is a valuable practice, but dismissing or demeaning the past is shortsighted. Our lives are forged from our histories. We should revere the stories we are made of, visit them regularly, and keep learning from them. Keep this in mind, Capricorn. It’s an excellent time to heal your memories and to be healed by them. Cultivate deep gratitude for your past as you give the old days all your love. Enjoy this quote from novelist Gregory Maguire: “Memory is part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our heart pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work, too: it keeps us who we are.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Controversial author William S. Burroughs was a rough, tough troublemaker. But he had some wisdom that will soon be extra useful for you. He said that love is the best natural painkiller available. I bring this to your attention not because I believe you will experience more pain than the rest of us in the coming months. Rather, I am predicting you will have extra power to alleviate your pain—especially when you raise your capacity to give and receive love.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The planet Saturn entered Pisces in March 2023 and won’t depart for good until February 2026. Is that a bad thing or good thing for you Pisceans? Some astrologers might say you are in a challenging time when you must make cutbacks and take on increased responsibility. I have a different perspective. I believe this is a phase when you can get closer than ever before to knowing exactly what you want and how to accomplish what you want. In my view, you are being called to shed secondary wishes that distract you from your life’s central goals. I see this period as a homecoming—your invitation to glide into robust alignment with your soul’s code.

Homework: Meditate on “creative destruction.” How could you generate benefits by getting rid of burdens? Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com

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