Santa Fe Reporter, March 27, 2024

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OPINION 5

NEWS

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

KICKING INTO GEAR 9

A delayed bicycle proposal heads to City Council

CURATING GLOOM 10

A planned exhibit queries shared Zozobra history

COVER STORY 12

TRIGGER WARNING

Preparing for gun violence has become a way of life on campuses—Santa Fe Public School tries a new approach

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CULTURE

SFR PICKS 17

Abstract art, mushroom movies and lots of tunes

THE CALENDAR 18

Good Friday, sure, but a great weekend too

3 QUESTIONS 22

With artist/writer Scott Christopher

THE NAKED TRUTH 26

WHAT DATING LOOKS LIKE NOW

Advice for the post-COVID scene

A&C 25

¡QUINCE!

The Moustachio Bashio turns 15

MUSIC 27

AN INTERVIEW WITH CAROLINA MAMA

Jazz maven takes over Paradiso for one night only

MOVIES 28

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Perhaps you really should be afraid of that ghost

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NEWS, MARCH 13: “SFR’S NEXT ERA”

SALUTING JAG

On behalf of grateful friends and community members of Julie Ann Grimm, former editor/ publisher of the Santa Fe Reporter, we salute an amazing journalist and media “maven”. She led her SFR teams to doggedly seek out community news that made us better citizens and human beings! Her fearlessness in pursuit of truth, dedication to integrity, commitment to diversity and our unique culture, and her perseverance for leading SFR through the challenging landscape of journalism. JAG might be seen at arroyo cleanups, restaurant tastings, ribbon cuttings, PBS round tables, city council meetings, Roundhouse hearings, and in-depth interviews with politicians, nonprofit leaders and concerned citizens. Wherever she was, it was evident that she put her brain, heart and soul into her work on our behalf. She will be missed at SFR, but stay tuned for her next story!

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ONLINE, MARCH 17: “FLIGHTS OF FANCY”

THE AIRPORT DIFFERENT

We hoped to be pleasantly surprised. We met what looked like a doctor’s office. Not the warm,

welcoming look of Santa Fe.

Santa Fe has truly become the City Similar. Ultramodern, sterile, box-store chic. No imagination.

We sorely wish we had taken photos of the airport building before this rack and ruin. We remember, even, days we could find (now and then) a parking space by the front door. We remember three ticketing windows, an odd trolley luggage claim combined with passenger unloading, two—count’em two!—gates, one TSA guard, a sporadically staffed snack “restaurant”. All in a warm cozy Santa Fe style corridor.

Now (in at least the “sneak peek” area) is a boxed windowed entryway groomed with elevator music leading to huge sterile smoothwalled rat-trap box. With smooth posts bearing free brochures. And for now, a seating arena for listening to speechifying by proud politicians (which we meekly ignored and left along smooth walkways next to lots reserved for “events”).

And we drove home through the waxing suburbia of the City Similar.

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SFR PICKS, MARCH 6: “OUTSIDE BONES”

DON’T MISS OUT

I attended the Santa Fe Playhouse opening nights of both Or, and Born With Teeth—two plays by the brilliant Liz Duffy Adams that are running in rep through March 31. The outstanding Playhouse season of 2023 is clearly going to be matched, if not exceeded, by the work they are doing in 2024. Both plays are funny, smart and full of surprises, and I found Born With Teeth to be especially moving. These productions more than meet the standard of excellence in acting, directing, scenery, costumes and lights that the Playhouse has set for itself over the past two years. If any of your readers have yet to experience the pleasure that is the Santa Fe Playhouse, I strongly suggest that they hurry to www.santafeplayhouse.org and get tickets before it’s too late!

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CITY OF SANTA FE SOLICITS PUBLIC COMMENTS ON HOW TO IMPLEMENT THE NEW MANSION TAX

Hand gestures don’t count

STATE PROSECUTORS OPPOSE NEW TRIAL FOR RUST ARMORER FEDS AWARD INTEL $8.5 BILLION TO EXPAND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING—INCLUDING IN NEW MEXICO Beats plutonium

SOCIAL SCIENTISTS CONVERGE IN SANTA FE THIS WEEK FOR THEIR ANNUAL MEETING

We recommend all the anthropologists attend the public comment of this week’s City Council meeting

CITY OF SANTA FE LOSES YET ANOTHER COMMUNICATIONS STAFF MEMBER

And will expand its next round of hiring to include telepaths

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SANTA FE PREP STUDENT WINS STATE SPELLING BEE WITH “VIZIERIAL”

That’s grate! G-r-a-t-e grate!

OFFICIALS ISSUE SAFETY MEASURES FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF EXPECTED PEDESTRIANS ON THE SANTUARIO DE CHIMAYÓ PILGRIMAGE THIS WEEK

Pedestrians crossing Cerrillos Road will remain, as always, on their own

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Kicking into Gear

After a bumpy ride, City Council prepares to vote on bicycle infrastructure proposal

BY EVAN CHANDLER evan@sfreporter.com

After two years of preparation, a series of delayed votes and several amendments, a new resolution— scheduled as of press time for a Santa Fe City Council vote on March 27—aims to amp up funding and resources for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure maintenance within the city.

The new proposal, introduced initially in January, would implement recommendations from the city’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee’s 2023 strategic plan, which targets a gold-level rating from the League of American Bicyclists’ Bicycle Friendly America program by 2033. Though it applied for gold in 2024, the city of Santa Fe in February received a silver rating, a designation Mayor Alan Webber described at the time as “good news—but not good enough.”

Despite the city’s bicycle aspirations, the resolution to improve city-wide infrastructure for bicyclists, sponsored by District 2 City Councilor and BPAC Chairman Michael Garcia and backed by the bicycle community, has hit several roadblocks. Most recently, Councilors Carol Romero-Wirth, Jamie Cassutt and Signe Lindell proposed amendments at a March 11 Finance Committee that delayed

a vote by the full Council and mayor previously scheduled for March 13.

Despite the setbacks and his own reported disagreements with some of the amendments, Garcia tells SFR the proposal is in good shape after conversations with and new amendments from newco-sponsors Romero-Wirth and Cassutt, along with District 3 City Councilors Pilar Faulkner and Lee Garcia.

“I’m just excited to be moving forward with this resolution and beginning what I call the first of many steps to strengthening and building a strong and robust bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure that is accessible to our entire community,” Garcia says. “It is essential that the City of Santa Fe provides first-class services to our residents, and this resolution will allow us to begin making progress.”

Under the newest version of the proposal, city staff will create a formula to determine a ratio of funding between bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure and that of vehicles; create a line item in the city’s operating budget for maintenance; and determine an appropriate amount of funding for the line item. While the resolution doesn’t specify a dollar amount, a fiscal impact report from January for crosswalk, sidewalk, road and trail work—

structure, and to “develop and maintain” a geographic information system to record the condition of said infrastructure. The amended version calls on the city manager to “continue to develop” an asset management and prioritization system, but does not mention a specific GIS system. The revamped proposal also makes no mention of an inspection schedule but, instead, directs the city manager to “develop an equitable, formulaic inventory assessment” that would help “inform” the city’s Parks and Complete Streets divisions’ budget requests.

“In reading the new language…it seems very, very vague. Maybe that’s the intention to keep it vague, but I’m wondering if we could make it more specific,” member Tony Gerlicz said at the meeting. “We had some real action words in the original language and now it’s ‘continue to develop.’ What does that mean? It sort of dilutes the whole proposal.”

Cassutt, however, says the changes help the proposal and “make it more understandable.” Original language within the resolution delegated the responsibility of determining the amount of funding entirely to the mayor, who leads the city’s budget process. Now, city staff will determine budget needs because “they are the experts,” Cassutt tells SFR.

among other activities—estimates $2.2 million in recurrent costs, along with an $860,000 one-time cost for software, asset inventory and equipment.

Cassutt tells SFR she became a co-sponsor in part to continue work she had done previously on a city multimodal transportation transition plan.

“This is a really important issue in our community. We hear a lot about people wanting a more walkable city, and we talk about how much more healthy individuals are,” she says. “There are so many different community members who will really benefit from us making sure we are prioritizing bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. We’ve really reached a place where I think this is a good piece of legislation.”

Yet BPAC, which consists of volunteers, wasn’t immediately convinced. At a special meeting March 19, several people on the committee lamented proposed changes in the amendment from city Finance Committee members that BPAC members said weakened the resolution due to “vague” language.

For instance, the original language called upon the city manager to designate the “appropriate entities and departments” to establish a regular inspection schedule for bicycle and pedestrian infra-

However, Garcia says even if passed, the plan may not take effect until next year when city officials make the Fiscal Year 2026 budget, as it may be too late for its consideration in the FY2025 budget, hearings for which start in April.

“With that being said, there is nothing that would prohibit the mayor from including resources for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and that is something I will pay very close attention to as we begin the Fiscal Year 25 budget review process,” Garcia says. “If there are not resources, I will begin to advocate that we establish some type of funding that is solely dedicated for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure.”

The original resolution received support from the Mayor’s Committee on Disability and Bike Santa Fe, a nonprofit bicycle advocacy organization. President Jenn Webber, who attends the monthly BPAC meeting, tells SFR that Bike Santa Fe has endorsed the resolution since its introduction, and continues to with the changes.

“We hear from our members a lot about the challenges they face cycling around town,” Webber says, noting cracks in the Rail Trail, icy trails, unswept bike lanes and more. “We know that this needs to be addressed in a more focused way.”

A biker rides along the River Trail. If passed, a new resolution will work to execute a plan to improve crosswalks, sidewalks, roads and trails for bicyclists and pedestrians.

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Curating Gloom

Forthcoming exhibits will delve into the community’s relationship with Zozobra

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Not even a gloomy late-season bit of snow could stop collectors of Zozobra ephemera from visiting the New Mexico History Museum on Monday morning to loan or donate items for use in upcoming exhibits hosted between the History Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art and Santa Fe Kiwanis—the org that puts on Zozobra each fall. By the time the dust settled, according to Curatorial Assistant Delaney Hoffman, the drop-off hours had helped bring the number of potential exhibit-ready items to roughly 60 and, with two more drop-off days left, she expects more to come.

Hoffman is part of a curatorial team aiming to complete a trio of as-yet unnamed exhibits with Zozobra-themed objects and artworks. Hoffman says she knows folks have cool stuff in their homes and garages.

“We want to see the objects of people’s lives that are tied to Zozobra and have meaning to them,” Hoffman says. “Part of it is the persistence I see across Santa Fe communities—my mom is from here, I’ve been around Santa Fe since I was born—and I think there’s something very valuable to having a place like Zozobra to put all the bad stuff.”

For the uninitiated, Zozobra, aka Old Man Gloom, is that semi-debaucherous annual affair in Santa Fe during which most of the city descends upon the Fort Marcy baseball field to burn the manifestation of gloom and doom (a puppet, essentially) to the ground, thereby symbolically exorcizing woe. It’s wild if you’ve never been. But, Hoffman says, time has diluted Shuster’s initial message when he and his buds first unveiled Zozobra in 1924.

“The real root of Zozobra was as a counter-Fiestas,” Hoffman explains. “Shuster and his buddies thought Fiestas was a little too serious and didn’t reflect all the people who actually lived here. They wanted to come up with something that was fun.”

Of course, over time Zozobra did wind up linked to Santa Fe Fiestas and the Entrada, the strange pageant claiming the 1692 reconquest of the Santa Fe Area following the 1680

Pueblo Revolt was bloodless. The Entrada was removed from Fiestas celebrations in 2018 following years of protest and a momentous coming-together of the All Pueblo Council of Governors.

Back on the Old Man Gloom tip: Cue the screaming puppet; fire dancers; ghost dancers; pageantry; watermelon juice; local music and, perhaps most notably in the lead-up to the Aug. 30 100th Burning of Zozobra, the Decades Project, whereby organizers in recent years decked out our main man Zozo in garb reflective of the ‘20s, ‘30s, ‘40s and so on. Last year, organizers dressed Zozobra to the nines for the aughts. This year, he’ll return to his roots, at least from an outfit perspective.

As for that trio of exhibits— dates pending—Kiwanis Event Chair Ray Sandoval echoes Hoffman’s sentiments about finding paraphernalia.

“What we’re looking for is memorabilia,” he tells SFR. “A gloom doll from the 1950s, a ribbon from a fire dancer’s costume—people used to scavenge Zozobra’s corpse after he burned, so maybe they have a burnt eyeball? Will Shuster would send out a Christmas postcard with a drawing of Zozobra; do you have one?”

For the New Mexico History Museum exhibit slated for sometime in August, Sandoval says, organizers are seeking the aforementioned bric-a-brac, and they needn’t be straightup donations—loans are OK,

too. For the also as-yet unnamed New Mexico Museum of Art exhibit, would-be participants have a little more leeway.

“We’re looking for Zozobra art as well,” Sandoval tells SFR, “and it can be new. What a cool thing to have on your resume: that you had artwork in a show at the New Mexico Museum of Art. And, since that space isn’t huge, we’ll also be hanging works in City Hall.”

For the annual ZozoFest party, which goes down the weekend before the big burn, Kiwanis will accept artwork submissions as per usual, so now’s probably the time to start putting pen to paper or brush to canvas.

To have your items evaluated, donors and loaners can visit burnzozobra.com/lend, or visit the New Mexico History Museum with items in tow during specified drop-in hours (Noon-2 pm Saturday, March 30 and 10 amnoon Monday, April 1, 113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200).

“I have this hope that we can get archival audio, too, like people recounting their experiences from the last 100 years, and we’re aware there’s a hole around Indigenous participation, so even if those perspectives are or were critical, good,” Hoffman adds. “I want to hear from students who helped build Zozobra; we have some great stuff from the Museum of International Folk Art’s archives, too. In my book, it’s a huge measure of success having people actually willing to share where these items are coming from, and that they cared enough to bring them in.”

These days, she notes, “Zozobra has spread all over the world, but it’s uniquely informed by Santa Fe and all the hands that build it every year.”

And the annual conflagration keeps Santa somewhat tethered to its roots, even as the city grapples with “ongoing gentrification, the influx of the wealthy into the city, lack of access to things like appropriate mental health care,” and other sundry glooms.

“I think we love Zozobra so hard because Santa Fe is still scrappy,” she says.

New Mexico History Museum Assistant Registrar Jonathan Kohlhorst and Curatorial Assistant Delaney Hoffman show off a donation to a forthcoming exhibit about Zozobra at the museum—a multimedia piece by lowrider queen Justice Lovato.

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MICHAEL HELLER, 1981, PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS PHOTO ARCHIVES, HP.2014.14.101

Members from Nelle’s Service Club, who helped raise money by making miniature paper Zozobras, circa 1981. Museum officials want locals to loan or donate items like these for Zozobra-themed exhibits.

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Trigger Warning

BY MO CHARNOT mo@sfreporter.com

Preparing for gun violence has become a way of life on school campuses—the Santa Fe school district is trying a new approach

“No more losing loved ones.” “Teach peace.”

“Stop the violence.”

These were just a few of the messages students in the wellness and social justice clubs at Santa Fe High School, Capital High School and the Academy of Technology & the Classics painted onto rocks last month during a New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence workshop. The adorned rocks now sit outside the students’ schools— one small reminder of the ubiquitous threat of gun violence hanging over today’s youth.

In 2020, gun violence became the leading cause of child deaths in New Mexico, along with an 88% increase in firearm injury-related emergency visits between 2022 and 2023 for all youth under the age of 18.

Last September, in response to several youth deaths from gun violence, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a public health emergency, and doubled down on efforts to enact gun control measures in the most recent legislative session.

While not all gun violence involving youth occur on campuses, school shootings continue across the country—10 so far this year resulting in injuries or deaths, Education Week reports. In New Mexico, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database’s interactive map, between 2018 and 2023, nine people were wounded or killed across 16 school shooting incidents in the state, including the high-profile Albuquerque incidents at Washington Middle School

in 2021, in which a 14-year-old student shot and killed classmate Bennie Hargrove, age 13; and a fatal shooting last year outside of Atrisco Heritage High School as result of two 16-yearolds playing with a gun.

While Santa Fe Public Schools has not experienced on-campus gun violence, some students have been preparing for such scenarios their entire educational careers. New Mexico has required school fire drills since 1967, and lawmakers added active shooter drills to the array of required preparation in 2019, two years after two students were killed at Aztec High School in an active shooter situation. For SFPS, the 2023-2024 academic year alone has also included six school lockdowns, one of which involved a student who brought a gun to campus on Jan. 22, impacting Early College Opportunities High School and Santa Fe High.

“We take all threats seriously and will always proceed with caution so that we protect staff and students,” SFPS Superintendent Hilario “Larry” Chavez tells SFR. “Lockdowns are practiced during the school year as one of the layers of safety; lockdowns are initiated when the threat of harm calls for one.”

Those layers of safety have been growing—and evolving—as officials look for the best ways to protect students who have grown up in the aftermath of the Columbine and Sandy Hook shootings, and youth activists and policy-makers work to change the society that has made them need that protection in the first place. ***

At the start of 2024, Executive Director of School Security Mario Salbidrez shared a presentation with the SFPS Board of Education outlining ongoing upgrades to security since he began his position in 2018, including: replacing contract security guards with in-house safety aides; installing security window film to block intruders; creating reunification IDs for younger students to use during evacuations; and increasing camera views by 122% throughout the schools.

Salbidrez has also implemented a new protocol known as a reverse fire drill, developed in direct response to a specific active shooter scenario in which someone who intends to cause harm falsely pulls a fire alarm and then waits for everyone to evacuate the building to

open fire. Two students who orchestrated the deadliest pre-Columbine school shooting in 1998 in Jonesboro, Arkansas used this method to target their victims.

Salbidrez tells SFR the district decided to implement the reverse fire drill to address concerns about potential assailants finding “holes in our defense mechanisms. We taught our students and staff so well that when they hear a fire alarm, they’re to exit their rooms and go to a designated location. But we thought, ‘What if it’s a ruse? What if it’s not a real fire, but somebody pulled the fire alarm, what then?’ So, that’s where we came up with this reverse fire drill, and came with a guide on how to run through it, and hopefully obtain the outcome and knowledge we’re looking for.”

Santa Fe Police Chief Paul Joye says for similar reasons SFPD generally refrains from discussing tactics they would use to handle, for instance, an active shooter on campus. “Individuals who would engage in this type of behavior—we assume that they want to know how we would respond to it, so they can try to prepare for it,” Joye says.

As for the reverse fire drill, he says he thinks the need for it is unfortunate.

“I couldn’t imagine being a young child and going through this type of drill,” Joye says. “It’s hard to know how effective they are, and hopefully we’ll never have to find out how effective they are.”

For the students SFR interviewed, such preparations are commonplace.

New Mexico School for the Arts junior

Deisy Jaramillo recalls too many school lockdowns and drills to count since she was in elementary school.

“It’s very scary…but at one point, you just kind of become desensitized to it, at least for me,” she tells SFR. “Here in Santa Fe, there have been a lot of school shooting threats, so it’s definitely a thing that’s in the back of my mind. There’s always kids making posts about how they’re going to shoot up Santa Fe High, and then go to NMSA. I don’t want to minimize it, but they weren’t serious. But they could do that if they wanted to.”

The new reverse fire drill, as Salbridez ex-

plains it, works relatively simply: Principals at the schools activate a fire drill and staff, who know it’s a reverse drill, behave as though it’s a normal fire drill and have their students evacuate the classroom and head toward the designated location. Approximately 45 seconds into the drill, the alarm shuts off. Once the alarm ceases, the teachers also stop their students and ask them to look around and commit where they’re standing to memory. They then return to their classrooms, count the students and start a discussion centered around the drill: “What if this fire alarm was not for a real fire? What if it was somebody

I couldn’t imagine being a young child and going through this type of drill. It’s hard to know how effective they are, and hopefully we’ll never have to find out how effective they are.

-Santa Fe Police Chief Paul Joye

trying to get students to evacuate classrooms with a bad intention? What could we have done at that moment? Where would you go?”

Such discussions are the types “we’re trying to have with these students while retaining an age-appropriateness as well,” Salbidrez says. “I understand I’m not going to have a higher-level discussion with the second-graders…we’re just trying to get them to think of what they could do.”

Jose Jesus Granillo, who has worked as a seventh and eighth grade teacher at Gonzales Community School for the past six years, tells SFR his students have thus far responded positively to the new drill.

“Our students are really good at listening to the explanations and setting that expectation,” Granillo says. “I feel they trust what we’re doing is for their overall safety. Our conversations seem to be going at a pretty mature level, as they are seventh and eighth graders.”

Alicia Dickinson, a choir and piano teacher at Capital High School, also described the drill as running “pretty smoothly,” and “a good way to handle a very bad situation.”

“The only problem is the classes that have already gotten outside—we’re supposed to lock exterior doors. So, if a class was like, ‘Alarm!’ and they jump up and they go really fast, they might not be able to get back in the building,” Dickinson tells SFR. “So, we also talked about, ‘what do you do if you’re outside, and there’s a danger outside, and you can’t get back in?’ We walked around and looked for hiding places, basically. They tell us not to tell the kids to scatter, because that’s chaos. You have to keep your kids together so you know your people are safe.”

Julio Perez, a 10th-grade student who is currently on the leadership council for the WAVE club (Wellness Ambassadors to Voice

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Santa Fe High School’s lockdown on Jan. 22 was the only lockdown at SFPS in the past year with the threat of a gun on campus.

MO CHARNOT

When visiting the Hiland Theater in Albuquerque on a field trip, students from Capital High, Santa Fe High and the Academy of Technology and the Classics painted rocks promoting an end to gun violence to create “peace gardens” outside of their schools.

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& Empower), says he became nervous after he returned to the classroom and his advisory teacher explained the reasoning behind the drill.

“That made me feel worried,” Perez tells SFR. “Like, what happens if someone would do that? I didn’t even think about that until we did [the drill]. It was kind of surprising that we had to do that.”

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In recent years, drills preparing students and school personnel for potential on-campus violence have come under scrutiny for being potentially traumatizing. For instance, a drill in an Ohio high school included police officers firing blanks; one in Indiana involved shooting teachers with plastic pellets. During an un-announced drill in Florida, students were told: “This is not a drill,” upsetting students, as well as their parents, who said they received no notice, according to Florida newspaper The Ledger. “Getting a random mid-day text from my son that says ‘I love you—there is a shooter on campus’ is not the way I want to be notified of a drill,” one parent commented.

Prior to COVID-19, Santa Fe Community College conducted drills every 12 to 18 months, the most recent occurring in early 2020, in which students and staff could choose to participate as actors, playing either assailants or injured victims. The assailants use loud noises—such as slapping two-byfours together—to simulate gunshots. Police act out their tactics for stopping the assailants, while EMS workers “tend” to the wounded. Officials say the drills double as training for SFCC faculty and security team as well as police, fire and emergency medical services, who arrive outside of the school and behave as if an active shooter is currently in the building.

SFCC Director of Safety and Security Chris Gettler tells SFR he’s been hoping to

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“really rejuvenate” the idea of campus-wide active shooter drills. Gettler says the school alerts the campus community ahead of time and adjusts the specifics to the drill as needed.

“There’s a sensitivity to the content,” he says. “It’s very coordinated, and the marketing and information about how the drill is going to go is very clearly detailed prior…and there’s a debriefing after to make sure everyone was comfortable with it; there were no issues with it.”

Not so, says at least one student. Destiny Krupnick, who now works as a campaign organizer for Earth Care New Mexico, was a 10th-grade student attending The MASTERS Program for grades 9-12 at SFCC and was present for one of the drills.

“It was very stressful,” Krupnick says. “Before, when I went to St. Michael’s [High School] and we had an active shooter drill, it was basically just ‘get into a lockdown position, hide, move chairs against the door,’ versus like…the sounds of guns going off… and then, if you actually did go into the hallway, there was just fake dead people laying on the floor. It was quite a graphic active shooter drill for kids to be at, in my opinion. I had no clue it was happening. I didn’t receive an email, I didn’t hear about it from my professors or MASTERS Program staffers—nobody had told me about it.”

New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence founder and Co-President Miranda Viscoli says while she can understand the motivations behind more intense drills and lockdowns, she also feels the way some schools conduct their drills can be traumatizing for students.

“I’m not saying we shouldn’t be doing everything we can to keep our kids safe,” Viscoli says, “but the schools are war zones.”

New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence’s myriad programs emphasize public outreach, including workshops at schools across the state. Even those have been interrupted several times by lockdowns. Viscoli recounts one

experience she had last year at a school she declined to name that went into lockdown after a man near the school was shot. When the principal announced the lockdown over the loudspeakers, she and her coworkers believed an active shooter was in the building.

“We immediately started putting old tables up against the doors, putting books in our shirts and texting our loved ones with our hands shaking…living the whole thing and watching the police driving toward the school without their sirens on, every single indicator that this was a school shooting,” she says.

Afterward, she says, when they returned to the classroom, she asked the students, “‘Are you guys OK?’ and they said it was the seventh one this year. What are our kids living through?”

The new reverse fire drills, Salbidrez says, are designed to be as non-traumatizing as possible for students.

“We want to be able to control the scenario as best as possible and be able to answer questions for them, but also, if you could imagine us trying to run this drill live, we’d have students going in every direction,” Salbidrez explains. “I’m not in the business of creating harm to our kids in trying to protect them, so we evaluate and come to the best possible deployment of a new process, and I felt that this was the best way to get them on board. Could we step it up? We can, if we ever get there. I can’t say that we ever will, but it’s definitely a consideration for next steps forward.”

Capital High teacher Dickinson agrees the district’s approach to the drill keeps students’ feelings in mind, noting that the high schools practiced the reverse fire drill first so the district could “work out the kinks” before introducing the drill to elementary and middle school students.

“This generation of young people have grown up with active shooter drills,” Dickinson says. “With high school students, they’ve been doing this their entire school ca-

reer. It is second nature to them, they know what to do, they don’t worry about it and they don’t get as upset.”

But when it comes to elementary students practicing active shooter drills, Dickinson says, “It’s hard. It can be very frightening to the kids, but unfortunately, it’s a fact of life now.”

Dickinson also worked with her students at Capital on how to approach gun violence prevention advocacy in the aftermath of losing fellow student Axel Gonzales last year to both gun and domestic violence.

“What can we do in a way that’s going to be most respectful and honor his memory, but also allow students to express how they feel about losing a classmate?” Dickinson asked her students.

Capital High’s WAVE students used their workshop as a springboard for ideas about their Gun Violence Awareness week, held March 11-15, and created a “Wings of Hope” art display in addition to encouraging students to sign the Student Pledge Against Gun Violence.

Viscoli notes that letting the students lead in programs like New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence and WAVE is key to building their engagement and investment in ending gun violence in their communities.

“Here, our young people feel that there are choices they can make to keep themselves safer, and that there are definite, concrete actions they can take to prevent gun violence,” she says.

Those efforts run the gamut and include political activism. Last year, WAVE students

gave presentations to state lawmakers in support of “Bennie’s Law,” which created legal penalties for “negligently making a firearm accessible to a minor,” named in honor of the murdered 13-year-old in Albuquerque. This year, students issued a statement in support of the seven-day waiting period for firearm purchases bill that has since been signed into law.

“Students are some of the biggest activists when it comes to gun safety and the initiatives that we’ve been taking,” the bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe, tells SFR. “They’re the ones

that are organizing and coming to the legislative session and are able to have that conversation about policy and what’s important to them, and those voices are really important to me.”

Romero, who also sponsored a bill to ban gas-powered semi-automatic weapons that died in committee this year, says one of her primary motivations behind sponsoring such legislation is to make New Mexico safer for youth, a situation with which she can empathize. When she was 18 years old, she says, one of her classmates was shot in the leg by a stray bullet after a concert the two had at-

He re, our young people feel that there are choices they can make to keep themselves safer, and that there are definite, concrete actions they can take to prevent gun violence .

-Miranda Viscoli, New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence founder and co-president

tended in Albuquerque, and she treated his bullet wound while waiting for the ambulance to arrive.

“We hope that our efforts for prevention are going to keep this from being something we have to face in Santa Fe,” says Dickinson, who sponsors Capital High’s WAVE club. “I would much rather be on the prevention side.”

Earlier this month, New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence and WAVE members distributed handouts and 50 free gun locks to adult attendees at a Santa Fe High School basketball game.

“I think one of the biggest impacts I had was distributing gun locks,” Perez says. “I felt like, giving the locks, maybe it will save a kid’s life, because sometimes on the news, there’s stories about kids accidentally using firearms because they weren’t locked.”

Viscoli says New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence’s 10-week-long workshops include films, conversations, art projects and an array of speakers from trauma room surgeons to people who have committed or been affected by gun violence. The goal, she says, is to provide youth a “broad picture” and create space for them to discuss the issue.

“A lot of them have family members who are incarcerated, a lot of them have siblings who have shot and killed somebody, a lot of them have lost loved ones,” Viscoli says. “There hasn’t been that space for them to really talk about it, which we actually found kind of shocking—that in every classroom so many kids have been affected by gun violence.”

Elementary school teachers at SFPS now keep “reunification IDs” to help reunite younger students with their parents during school evacuations.

For Gun Violence Prevention Week this year, students at Capital High’s WAVE Club created a “Wings of Hope” display where students could decorate and write messages on feathers.

MO CHARNOT

FILM THU/4

‘SHROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT

If you somehow missed the gloriously educational and entertaining 2019 film Fantastic Fungi about mushroom enthusiast Paul Stamets, make haste to the Center for Contemporary Arts for a special screening of a remastered version of the film for its fifth anniversary. Not only will viewers learn the absolutely bonkers reality of fungi’s grip and presence on the planet Earth, they’ll have a chance to demystify concepts such as psychedelics, the natural universe and why our mushroom friends are so vital to life as we know it. Plus, the whole thing is narrated by Captain Marvel herself, Brie Larson, so…y’know, good news for nerds. To summarize: Mushrooms are cool, you should love them, this film teaches you why that is. (ADV)

Fantastic Fungi Remastered: Various times

Friday, March 29-Thursday, April 4. $13. Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

MUSIC SAT/30 & SUN/31

AROUND THE BENT

So it’s been a minute since we checked in with singer-songwriter Eryn Bent, but that doesn’t mean the guitarist, sometimes bandleader and vocal dynamo hasn’t been making moves. As always, Bent’s tunes remain introspective think-pieces about the harder things in life, yes—but also the beautiful things. “I was able to go to Hawaii in January, and that was great because I’ve been consciously trying to write more and that was a trip I needed to feel inspired,” she says. “My personal experience in songwriting has been a battle with my anxiety, but I’m finding the joy in writing again.” Find Bent strumming and singing twice this week. (ADV)

Eryn Bent: 6 pm Saturday, March 30. $10.

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 308808; 6 pm Sunday, March 31. Free. Tesuque Casino, 7 Tesuque Road, (800) 462-2635

MUSIC MON/1

INTO THE STRATOSPHERE

Welp, it’s not every day we get a band from freaking Switzerland in Santa Fe, but that’s precisely how it’ll go when Basel dream-pop/shoegaze duo The Upper Strata makes their way to Iconik Coffee Roaster’s new-ish Red location in Midtown. Straight up, if you’re a fan of floaty synths, catchy bass hooks and rhythms and/or thoughtful and danceable jamz, this is the act for you. In fact, members Jonathan and Regula Sanchez have crafted such a delightful eclectic melange of contempo and throwback sounds, it’s hard to liken The Upper Strata to anything in particular. That “dream” qualifier might carry the most weight. Oh, and it’s a daytime show, too, which frankly works for some of SFR’s more age-advanced staffers. (ADV)

The Upper Strata: Noon-2 pm Monday, April 1. Free. Iconik Coffee Roasters (Red), 1366 Cerrillos Road, (505) 428-0996

COURTESY TIM REED

ART OPENING ONGOING

Transitions

Abstract artist Tim Reed makes room for more with new series Silly Love Songs

Anyone familiar with Santa Fe abstract artist Tim Reed could likely pick his work out of a lineup. Reed often makes use of a bold field of pastel and an illustrative penand-ink element that breaks up swooping swathes of color with more intricate, if chaotic, designs. Reed has developed a singular visual language that has a comfortable familiarity .

Change can also be a vibe, though, a mantra Reed adopted while working toward the body of work currently hanging at all three Iconik Coffee Roasters locations across town. Silly Love Songs acts both as a testament to Reed’s process of long gestation, and to listening to what his body wanted while trying to complete a series with a mere 21 days notice.

“I had a lot of work well underway, some of it sitting in the studio for five years, which is not uncommon for me,” Reed tells SFR, “but I had to fill more spaces than I thought.”

Part of the crunch was local curator and ongoing Reed champion Moss Fawn taking

over curation duties at all Iconik locations with a relatively short lead time. Part of it was Reed’s illustration practice, which he says helped transition his more recent work from blatantly abstract to at least semi-representational.

“I’m still comfortable calling myself an abstract artist because I enjoy it in the same way it’s fun to look at clouds, but I just sort of recognized that maybe I was holding myself back,” he says. “I wanted to make sure the doors were open. I let myself play more.”

The audience will still have plenty of leeway when it comes to considering Reed’s work. He won’t, after all, spell it out. It’s alchemical, he says—a conversation.

(Alex De Vore)

TIM REED: SILLY LOVE SONGS

Through Sunday, June 30. Free. Iconik Coffee Roasters, 1600 Lena St., 1366 Cerrillos Road; 314 S Guadalupe St., (404) 428-0996).

COURTESY MOVING ART

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WED/27

ART OPENINGS

PECOS RIVER PAINTINGS

La Fonda on the Plaza

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

June Julian’s paintings depict messenger figures over the Pecos River to carry wishes for rain. Reception begins at 4 pm. 10 am-6 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES

ADHD FOR DUMMIES

Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse

202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226

An evening to demystify ADHD with simple explanations of the basics and the latest research with the authors of ADHD for Dummies

6 pm

HISTORY WITH CHRISTIAN

35 Degrees North

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

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

UNCOVERING THE ART OF MARY SULLY

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

Philip J. Deloria discusses the work of his great-aunt, Dakota Sioux artist Sully. Deloria’s lecture draws from his exploration of Sully’s portfolio. 4-6 pm, $10

DANCE

POMEGRANATE SEEDS YOUTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

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

An after-school dance program for young women aged 13-18. 5-7 pm

EVENTS

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St., (505) 983-4671

Chess, food and conversation. 10 am-1 pm

GAME NIGHT

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Original)

1600 Lena St., (505) 428-0996

This local coffee hub becomes your best friend’s living room. Games are provided, but feel free to bring your own to share with others.

6-8:30 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

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

Engaging music games and singalongs for toddlers and babies.  10:30-11:15 am

QUEER COFFEE GET TOGETHER

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

Coffee with the local queer community.

9:30-11 am

MUSIC

BRYAN BIELANSKI

Dixon Market

215 NM-75, Dixon, (505) 579-9625

An acoustic rock singer.

Noon

JOHNNY LLOYD

Cowgirl

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

Country favorites.  4-6 pm

KARAOKE NIGHT

Boxcar

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

Crash Romeo hosts karaoke night every Wednesday.

7 pm

KIMMI BITTER & THE WESTSIDE TWANG

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

Centered around old-school country with a psychedelic touch of the swinging ‘60s, this band blends the old and familiar with the new.

8-10 pm

MELANGE

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952

Award-winning, original Spanglish funk fusion.

6-9 pm

TWO CROWS FOR COMFORT

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

A folk roots duo. 7 pm

WARM UP WEDNESDAY

Boxcar

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

Hip-hop night every Wednesday, hosted by DJ DMonic. 9 pm

THEATER

BORN WITH TEETH

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

Two poets—Kit Marlowe and Will Shakespeare—navigate the perils of art under a totalitarian regime.  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

THU/28

BOOKS/LECTURES

MISPLACING DON DIEGO DE VARGAS THE FIRST TIME Historic Santa Fe Foundation 545 Canyon Road Suite #2, (505) 983-2567

A downtown walking tour of unmarked graveyards in Santa Fe led by archaeologist Dr. Alysia L. Abbott. The tour covers the history of each graveyard, the people buried within them, the techniques used for finding them, the ethics of disinterring them and protecting the sites.  3 pm, $50-$60

In The Motion of Breathing exhibition opening at Blue Rain Gallery on March 29, Chris Pappan’s ledger art creates rich metaphors for split selves made whole.

DANCE

AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE

STUDIO COMPANY

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

Masterworks of classical and neoclassical ballet.

7:30 pm, $45-$69

POMEGRANATE SEEDS

YOUTH MENTORSHIP

PROGRAM

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

An after-school dance program for young women aged 13-18.

5-7 pm

EVENTS

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952

Challenging trivia with prizes.

7-9 pm

GRAZE DAYS

Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road, (505) 316-3596

Learn about prescribed grazing with goats and sheep.

10am-4pm

LADIES NIGHT

Boxcar

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

Ladies get free entry, $5 for everyone else.

10 pm

SOLO- PRENEUR SOCIAL CLUB

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Red)

1366 Cerrillos Road, (505) 428-0996

Connect with “solopreneurs” for small business networking.

6:30-8:30 pm

FILM

THROWBACK MOVIE NIGHT:

MARY POPPINS

La Farge Library

1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292

A free screening of Mary Poppins (1964). Popcorn and hot cocoa provided.

5:15-7:30 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 in New Mexico to order.

5-9 pm

MUSIC

ALMA

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

This four-piece Latin band’s unique blend of cumbias, boleros and bachatas are sure to get your feet moving.

8:30-10:30 pm

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

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

Legendary country music.  4-6 pm

FOLK JAM

La Reina

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

Jam your favorite folk tunes. 7-8:30 pm

OPEN MIC WITH STEPHEN PITTS

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

Open mic night hosted by folk jam artist Pitts.

7 pm

SIRSY

Paradiso

903 Early St., (505) 577-5248

A folk rock duo. 7:30-10 pm, $10-$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 Jayson Stone (for the last time).  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

WORKSHOP

PAINT-SIP-CHILL: STARRY NIGHT IN MADRID

Mad Contemporary Gallery and Art Center

3 Firehouse Ln., Madrid, (505) 603-5225

Celebrate Van Gogh’s birthday with a step-by-step painting instruction of “Starry Night.”

6-9 pm, $40

FRI/29

ART OPENINGS

A FEAST TO REMEMBER (OPENING)

form & concept

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

Monumental paintings and fanciful ceramic creatures by interdisciplinary artist Jenny Day.  5-7 pm

AN IRIS BETWEEN US (OPENING) smoke the moon

616 1/2 Canyon Road smokethemoon.com

Artists Cory Feder and Jieun Reiner express their Korean heritage through muted clay pigment paintings, dreamy oil paintings and sculpture. 6-8 pm

CHRIS PAPPAN: THE MOTION OF BREATHING (OPENING)

Blue Rain Gallery

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

Using diverse mediums on antique ledgers and gold standard paper, Pappan draws inspiration from historical photos. 5-7 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES

CYNTHIA JURS: SUMMONED BY THE EARTH

Ark Books

133 Romero St., (505) 988-3709

Cynthia Jurs discusses her novel, Summoned by the Earth: Becoming a Holy Vessel for Healing Our World 6-7 pm

FIRST FRIDAY LECTURE:

ANGELA ELLSWORTH

New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary 404 Montezuma Street, (505) 231-5065

Ellsworth discusses her career and artwork with her exhibition Shadow & Light 5:30 pm

MODERNITY FOR FOOLS AND KNAVES

St. John’s College, Santa Fe 1160 Camino De Cruz Blanca, (505) 984-6408

Frank Pagano discusses Machiabelli’s  Mandragola and Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well 7 pm

DANCE

EL FLAMENCO CABARET

El Flamenco Cabaret

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

Award-winning flamenco.

6:15 pm, $25-$48

SEVENTH SENSE

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601

Through improvised movement, Underland Dance’s five dancers explore the power of sensing beyond individual experience.

6:30-8:30 pm, $20

EVENTS

BAR NONE

Travel Bug Coffee Shop

839 Paseo de Paralta, (505) 992-0418

A pop-up with a diverse offering of alcohol-free drinks.

6-8:30 pm, $35

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St., (505) 983-4671

Chess, food and conversation.

10 am-1 pm

GRAZE DAYS

Railyard Park

740 Cerrillos Road, (505) 316-3596

Learn about healthy soil principles and the benefits of prescribed grazing with goats and sheep.

10 am-4 pm

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MAKE AND BELIEVE TIME

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Storytelling hour for kids.  10 am

VIETNAM WAR VETERANS DAY

Santa Fe National Cemetery

501 N Guadalupe St., (505) 988-6400

An event to commemorate Vietnam service members and perform military honors. 10 am

FILM

FANTASTIC FUNGI REMASTERED

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

A time-lapse documentary about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi. (See SFR Picks, page 17.) 10:45 am, $13

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

The definitive swan song of Japanese composer and pianist Sakamoto, featuring 20 concert pieces that narrate his life. 11 am, $13

MUSIC

ARMEN DONELIAN TRIO

GiG Performance Space

1808 Second St., gigsantafe.com

Pianist and composer Donelian presents a program of standards, original compositions and covers.

7:30 pm, $26

BARAK HILL

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

Heartbroken Americana tunes.

5 pm

BENNY BASSET

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

A fusion of alternative rock, folk and singing-songwriting. 2-5 pm

CAROLINA MAMA

Paradiso

903 Early St., (505) 577-5248

An intimate singing style with masterful storytelling, integrating the heart of cultures from Latin America and North Africa. (See A&C, page 27.)

7:30-10 pm, $10-$20

CHARLES TICHENOR

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

Well-crafted piano tunes.

6-9 pm

ETHAN BUCKNER & TOM SLESS

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

Indie folk/pop troubadour Buckner performs with resplendent rock and roll from Sless.

7:30 pm, $10-$13

FINE ART FRIDAY

Santa Fe Children’s Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359

Music appreciation and popup concerts with Classical 95.5 KHFM’s Special Remote Broadcast from the museum.   1-5 pm

JJ & THE HOOLIGANS

Cowgirl

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

Classic dance band tunes. 7 pm

KELSY KARTER & THE HEROINES

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

A guitar-drenched sound steeped in elements of punk, Britpop and classic glam-rock.

8 pm, $22-$107

LEE BRICE

Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino

20 Buffalo Thunder Trail, (505) 455-5555

One of country music’s most accomplished songwriters and performers takes the stage for his Me & My Guitar tour.

8 pm, $69-$89

LEVI DEAN AND THE MESA RATS

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

A progressive blend of Americana, folk, blues and alt-country.

8 pm

MICHAEL GARFIELD & FRIENDS

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

Simultaneously heady and romantic tunes in an electro-acoustic instrumental space. 8-11 pm

SECOND CHANCES COUNTRY BAND

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

A two-piece country band.  6-9 pm

TGIF CONCERT SERIES:

CHANCEL CHOIR OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND DAVID SOLEM

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

Presbyterian’s Chancel Choir performs Mozart’s Requiem, accompanied by pianist Solem. 5:30 pm

TERRY DIERS

Boxcar

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

Blues, rock and funk tunes. 6-8 pm

THEATER

BORN WITH TEETH

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

Kit Marlowe and William Shakespeare navigate the perils of art under totalitarianism. 7:30 pm, $30-$60

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WORKSHOP

SPRING INTO CRAFTING

La Farge Library 1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292

Cute paper crafts! Make a card and treat holder with decorative grass and candy using rubber stamping. RSVP required. 1-2 pm and 2:30-3:30 pm

SAT/30

BOOKS/LECTURES

AUTHOR EVENT WITH RENATA GOLDEN

Garcia Street Books

376 Garcia St., (505) 986-0151

A reading, author conversation and book signing with Golden and her essay collection, Mountain Time: A Field Guide to Astonishment 4:30 pm

NATURAL NEW MEXICO:

WATER WISDOM

Santa Fe Public Library (Southside)

6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

An ecxploration of community resilience in hotter, drier times, and how we can conserve water resources. Learn about rain gardens and the problems they can solve.  2-3:30 pm

OPERA MAKES SENSE

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

A musical reading of The Shade Tree by Suzy Lee to share the thrills of the opera with kids. 10:30 am

POETRY AND THE UNSPOKEN

Santa Fe Farmer’s Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 3taospress.com

A poetry reading with poets Kate O’Neill and Dale Kushner.  4-5 pm

REBEL READERS BOOK CLUB

Online

Read a book that fits the theme and share your thoughts. This month’s theme is “inspired by mythology.” Register at tinyurl. com/RebelReaders12.

10:30-11:30 am

SUCCESSFUL GARDENING IN SANTA FE

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, (505) 466-7323

Ken Bower from the Santa Fe Botanical Garden teaches how to start a garden in Santa Fe.

1-2 pm

DANCE

EL FLAMENCO CABARET

El Flamenco Cabaret

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

Award-winning flamenco.

6:15 pm, $25-$48

SEVENTH SENSE

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601

Underland Dance’s five dancers explore the power of sensing beyond individual experience.

6:30-8:30 pm, $20

EVENTS

CALL FOR OBJECTS: ZOZOBRA MEMORIES

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5100

The New Mexico History Museum wants to see your vintage Zozobra ephemera, family videos, photos and more for a major exhibition celebrating 100 years of Old Man Gloom!

2 pm

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St., (505) 983-4671

Chess, food and conversation.

10 am-1 pm

EL MERCADO DE EL MUSEO CULTURAL

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

A weekend market for art, jewelry, textiles, beads and more.

10 am-4 pm

FAIRY HAIR FUN

Santa Fe Children’s Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359

Santa Fe’s local fairy provides guests with REAL fairy hair directly from the magical realm! (They’re also known as shimmering hair extensions.)

4-6 pm

GRAZE DAYS

Railyard Park

740 Cerrillos Road, (505) 316-3596

Learn about prescribed grazing with goats and sheep.

10 am-4 pm

SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

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

A market for fine art and crafts.

9 am-2 pm

SCIENCE SATURDAY

Santa Fe Children’s Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359

Meet reptiles and amphibians from the Santa Fe Reptile and Bug Museum. 2-4 pm

FILM

FLIGHT FROM DEATH: BUDDHIST CENTER MOVIE NIGHT

Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 130 Rabbit Road, (505) 660-7056

Grab your popcorn and blankets and join in on a free screening of Flight From Death (2003).

5-7 pm

MUSIC

APRÈS SKI WITH DJ SAINT JOHN Palace Prime

142 W Palace Ave., (505) 919-9935

DJ Saint John spins while Palace Prime offers cocktails. 5-7 pm

BARAK HILL/KENNY

CROWLEY

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Two Americana singer-songwriters perform heartfelt and eclectic roots music.

8:30-10:30 pm

BOB MAUS BLUES & SOUL

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

Maus plays tune-smiths from Randy Newman to Elton John. 6-9 pm

CHARLES TICHENOR

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

A well-crafted kaleidoscope of piano tunes.

6-9 pm

CHILLHOUSE WITH HILLARY SMITH

Cowgirl

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

Contemporary blues, R&B and soul music.

7 pm

DOS HOOLIGANS

Cowgirl

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

Rock, blues, Americana, pop and loads of attitude.

1 pm

FREDDIE SCHWARTZ

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

Schwartz plays classic rock, Americana and country music, along with originals from time to time.

2-5 pm

IRON CHIWAWA

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

Rock and roll jams.

3 pm

JOHNNY LLOYD

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

4-6 pm

LONE PIÑON

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

A New Mexican string band whose music celebrates the region’s cultural roots.

8 pm

MOUSTACHIO BASHIO

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

A psychedelic moustache dance party with live music. Dress to confuse and inspire. (See A&C, page 25.)

8 pm, $50-$60

NEKO CASE

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

A singer-songwriter whose  melodies bend in unpredictable directions. Sold out, but keep refreshing Stubhub just in case.

7:30 pm

THE PULSE JAZZ TRIO

Sage Social Kitchen

725 Cerrillos Road

Groove-based traditional, Latin and funk-influenced jazz.

6-9 pm

WESTERNHERS

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

An all-gals classic country band. Get your dancin’ boots on!

8 pm

THEATER

BORN WITH TEETH

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

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

OR,

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

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

7:30 pm, $30-$60

WORKSHOP PAINT-SIP-CHILL: STARRY

NIGHT IN SANTA FE

CHOMP Food Hall

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

Recreate the enchanting “Starry Night” by Van Gogh with guided instruction.

6-9 pm, $36

TINY GARDEN DIY

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Want a garden, but have very little space? Join Director of Education and Interpretation Christie Collins on how to build your own tiny garden.

11 am-noon, $12-$15

YOUR MEDITATION

JOURNEY BEGINS

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

Bring meditation down to earth in a class delving into misconceptions about the practice. Noon-1:30 pm, $35

SUN/31

BOOKS/LECTURES

THE BEASTLY BOOK CLUB

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 395-2628

Read and discuss Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree. After a lifetime of bloodshed, an orc hangs up her sword and trades her shield for a steamer.

1-2 pm

DANCE

BASIC SWING DANCE CLASS

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

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

EVENTS

ADULT SHOW & TELL

Mad Contemporary 3 Firehouse Lane, Madrid (505) 603-5225

Bring an object with a story to share or just listen. Bring water and a floor pillow, or something cozy to sit on. 4 pm, $10-$20 suggested

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St., (505) 983-4671

Chess, food and conversation. 10 am-1 pm

EL MERCADO DE EL MUSEO

CULTURAL

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

A weekend market for art, jewelry, textiles, beads and more.   10 am-4 pm

GARDEN EGG HUNT

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Design Easter bags, search for eggs and win prizes, followed by a presentation on native rabbits of New Mexico. RSVP required. 10:30 am-1:30 pm, $5-$10

RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET

Farmers’ Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta

About 40 local painters, potters, jewelers, weavers, and more. Santa Fe’s best kept secret! 10 am-3 pm

In Jenny Day’s A Feast to Remember exhibit opening at form & concept on March 29, a ceramic menagerie of mixed media animals challenges viewers to consider humanity’s untapped potential for good.

COURTESY ALABAMA

Our Volunteers Make History

Volunteer with us at El Rancho de Las Golondrinas!

We are looking for tour guides, historical interpreters, artisans, and anyone with an interest in history, culture, or nature.

Our volunteer program welcomes individuals of all ages and abilities. No experience necessary—all training is provided.

that they can apply to themselves. I’m using baseball as a metaphor, and people love baseball. They can go, ‘Well, hmm, that’s something to accomplish what he did with a very handicapped hand.’

I imagine after you had tripped and fallen on that bottle, you probably weren’t immediately thinking you were going to be a one-in-a-million case. How does one overcome a major setback and still continue to aim higher?

Scott Christopher had 10 minutes to live when he fell on a glass bottle during a baseball game as a 6-yearold. He cut arteries and tendons in his right hand, rendering him unable to pick up a baseball. Still passionate about the sport, Christopher was determined to overcome his injuries and continue playing. He recounts this experience and his rise to professional baseball as an MVP with the Baltimore Orioles following the incident in his 2023 memoir Baseball, Art and Dreams. Christopher will give an author talk and book signing from 1 to 4 pm, March 30 at High Noon General Store (213 Galisteo St. highnoongeneralstore.com). The following interview has been edited for clarity and concision. (Evan Chandler)

What can people who attend the event expect?

There will be Cracker Jacks. Just come on and get your Cracker Jacks and visit. But my intention and hope and dream is that anyone who reads my book…will come out with at least one tool that’s going to add to their enlightenment. My hope is that they will come and visit.

In my talk, I’m just going to highlight what it takes. And there’s different ways. I’ve always thought that the enlightenment of the individual is the center of this medicine wheel, which is yours. It’s not that there’s a set way, but it’s going to show that it’s possible because it shouldn’t have been possible. The guests that come to my talk are going to get an insider view of the book and the game. They will leave knowing that dreams are real, and they will find moments in my talk

You have to take what life hands you. We’re all given different hands, and some of those gut punches just send you to the canvas. One of the constants in life is change. I couldn’t throw a baseball for two years and playing the game of baseball was basically off the table. And it was something that I loved. I loved athletics and I loved competing. It was just something within me. In rehabilitation, there was so much that my parents had to do, and they were so committed to bringing my hand back to where I could basically use it. There will be these moments in life we all have—whether or not you recognize them is a different story—but the dream I have with my book is that people will become inspired. They can have a handicap and live their dream. They can have dreams and put them in the drawer for a while. They can come up with new dreams. There is absolutely no benchmark.

You make several references in your book to baseball as a ‘magic art.’ What specific elements of the sport appear artistic to you?

To start, the architecture of the stadiums. I would just study them and I would see these different things. You’d have negative space and beautiful structures and the seats and the field itself. My art is abstract and intuitive. It’s a real range, but I do like to put in geometrics and abstracts, and the way a field was designed always intrigued me…In baseball, it’s even in the human part—in what you have to do as an athlete. There are so many players, and there’s so much strategy. There’s a very magical artistic piece to all sports, but in baseball, it was heightened because you got a guy on the mound, he’s coming in and you’ve got to make instantaneous decisions. You’ve got to pick up the rotation. So it’s all art.

With Artist/Writer Scott Christopher

COURTESY SCOTT CHRISTOPHER

FOOD

LAMY BRUNCH RUN

Santa Fe Depot

430 W Manhattan Ave, 8447433759

Ride to the Legal Tender Eating House and Saloon in Lamy.

9:15 am, $199-$239

MUSIC

ETHAN PERRY

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

A solo acoustic performance.

7-9 pm

KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar

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

Crash Romeo hosts karaoke.

7 pm

SILVER SKY BLUES BAND

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

Rock out to the blues!

Noon

THE BOHEMIACS!

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090

Violin and accordion tunes

2-5 pm

THE HIGH DESERT PLAYBOYS

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

Americana country songs.

3 pm

THEATER

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.

2 pm, $30-$60

MON/1

ART OPENINGS

JOE DUNLOP

Java Joe’s (Siler)

1248 Siler Road, 780-5477

Dunlop crafts abstract landscapes with acrylic, gouache and watercolor.

11 am-1 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

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

Santa Fe Poet Laureate Tommy Archuleta and state Poet

Laureate Lauren Camp read new works and old favorites.

6 pm

DANCE

MONDAY NIGHT SWING

Odd Fellows Hall

1125 Cerrillos Road, 690-4165

A swing dance class and social.

7 pm, $5-$10

EVENTS

CALL FOR OBJECTS:

ZOZOBRA MEMORIES

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5100

The New Mexico History Museum wants to see your vintage Zozobra ephemera, family videos, photos and more for consideration for inclusion in a major exhibition celebrating 100 years of Old Man Gloom!

10 am-12 pm

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

BASILARIS

Chile Line Brewery

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

A local jazz fusion/psychedelic group rocks out.

6-9 pm

INDIGO DE SOUZA

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Deep guitar-led indie tunes running through human emotions.  7 pm, $25

JOHNNY LLOYD

Cowgirl

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

Country favorites.

4-6 pm

KARAOKE WITH CRASH!

Cowgirl

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

Start the week with karaoke.

7-10 pm

QUEER NIGHT

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

Celebrate and strengthen local queer communities.

5-11 pm

THE UPPER STRATA

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Red) 1366 Cerrillos Road, (505) 428-0996

A unique Swiss band plays their blend of dream pop tunes. (See SFR Picks, page 17.)

Noon-2 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

WORKSHOP

YOGA FOR THE SOLAR

ECLIPSE IN ARIES

Paradiso

903 Early St., (505) 577-5248

A Hatha and Yin yoga class guided by the stars. 2-3:30 pm, $25

THE CALENDAR

TUE/2

EVENTS

PLANT SWAP: THE JOY OF PLANTS

Santa Fe Public Library (Southside)

6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

Swap plants and make friends. 6-7 pm

MUSIC

DON CURRY

Cowgirl

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

Classic rock originals & covers.

4 pm

FLOR DE TOLOACHE

St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave, (505) 476-5072

An edgy, versatile and fresh take on Latin American music.

7:30 pm, $25-$45

LATIN SINDUSTRY NIGHT

Boxcar

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

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

10 pm

LENSIC PRESENTS: DRUM

TAO

Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-7050

Physical, large-scale drumming with contemporary costumes, precise choreography and innovative visuals.

7:30 pm, $45-$69

MARGO CILKER

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

In Cilker’s 11-song collection, family and nature intertwine as guiding motifs.

7:30 pm, $20-$25

THE DOWNTOWN BLUES JAM

Evangelo’s

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

Live blues hosted by Brotha Love & The Blueristocrats.

8:30-11:30 pm

TORII TAIKO: PROGRAM NOTES

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

Torii Taiko performs three pieces to teach about performance styles, different drums and sticks and sample rhythms. Free for Drum Tao ticketholders.

6:30 pm

WORKSHOP

UNDERSTANDING YOUR MIND - DEVELOPING CONCENTRATION

Santa Fe Women’s Club

1616 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 983-9455

Participants learn to identify and use five special parts of their minds. This session’s topic is: “Increasing our wisdom.”

6-7:30 pm

CONTINUED

THE CALENDAR

ONGOING

ART

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

Bhakti Ziek unravels a 1,470year textile history with monumental suspended weaving.

AN INNOCENT LOVE: ANIMAL SCULPTURE ARTISTS OF NEW MEXICO

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

The cutest little animal sculptures you ever did see.

ANDREW DASBURG:

SYMPHONIC DRAWINGS

Addison Rowe Gallery

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

Western landscape works from 1930s Taos.

BLASFEMME: A REVERENCE FOR RENEGADES

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

A mosaic of womens' creative rebellion over generations.

COLCHA OF NEW MEXICO:

THE LEGACY OF BEATRICE

MAESTAS SANDOVAL

Abiquiú Inn

21120 Hwy. 84, Abiquiú, 87510, (505) 685-4378

Colcha embroidery works, rugs and tinwork on display.

DANIEL JOHNSTON:

NOW IS NOWHERE ELSE

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

Contemporary potterJohnston presents clay brick works.

DANILA RUMOLD:

TRANSFORMATIONS

Pie Projects

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

Mixed media 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.

I SAY WITH MY FULL ESSENCE Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

Seven women artists uniquely address their histories.

JOON HEE KIM: YOU, ME, US

Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie, (505) 820-1888

Kim's ceramic works examine her heritage.

KATHERINE PORTER: BRILLIANCE OF SPONTANEITY

UNTAMED

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

One of the great women of American abstract painting.

LEO GONZALES:

SUMMONINGS

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

A post-apocalyptic vision within intricately crafted oil paintings.

LOUISA MCELWAIN: DISTANT

THUNDER (OPENING)

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 draw on urban language references, such as graffiti and neon lights.

NIGHT DRIVE

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

Artist Carrie Cook merges the sleepy gulf coasts of her past with 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 folk-art tradition.

ROGER DEAKINS: BYWAYS

Obscura Gallery

225 Delgado St., (505) 577-6708

A photographic exhibition by cinematographer Deakins.

ROGER WINTER: JAZZ SET

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

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

SPRING DREAM

Hecho a Mano

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

This dreamy multimedia show includes ceramics, pastels, landscape paintings and more.

SUE LLEWELLYN: A RETROSPECTIVE

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

Early sketches and recent whimsical illustrations.

THE MOVIES

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

Iconic photographs from classic films of the 20th century.

THE PAINTED CITY

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250

Realist paintings of urban scenes.

TIM REED: SILLY LOVE SONGS

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

Psychedelic multimedia works, with more on display at Iconik's Red and Lupe locations. (See SFR Picks, page 17.)

WOMEN SPIRIT 2024

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

Fine art, fiber art, jewelry and weavings from women artists.

100TH BURNING OF ZOZOBRA ART CONTEST

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

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

MUSEUMS

A blanket made from Germantown wool yarn by an unknown Diné weaver is on display at the Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles exhibtion at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture until Feb. 2 next year.

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

¡Quince!

BY FERNANDO MADERA authr@sfreporter.com

Eighteen years ago, a group of University of New Mexico undergrads saw fit to let their mustaches grow for the entire month in preparation for the school’s first-ever take on March Mustache Madness, a theme-party trend that emerged at college campuses across the US.

They never imagined the event would continue to flourish in the outside world, let alone become an entry in New Mexico’s party history. This year, despite multiple venue changes, a pandemic pause and the rigors of growing partial facial hair for at least 30 days out of the year, the local version of the party— dubbed the Moustachio Bashio—hits its 15th anniversary. Looking back, the Bashio’s staying power is kind of incredible.

“I wasn’t even there for the first one,” says Lando Rock, the man behind the operation. “The school’s frisbee team was throwing [the party] and I missed it. I was bummed. Next thing I know, some friends and I decided to take matters into our own hands and started organizing the thing ourselves. [In 2007], we found a house near campus…by the infamous third edition, which was held at the Press Club in Albuquerque—and got shut down by the cops at midnight—the game was on.”

What started as a mustache-centered college party grew from there to become an open-to-all costume extravaganza for those with or without facial hair.

“It’s not even about the mustache any more, it’s about vibing together with live music while being fully oneself…in disguise,” says Rock, who attended last year’s party as the Bashio’s unofficial mascot, The Bashio

Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return plays host for the 15th anniversary of the party that just won’t quit—the Moustachio Bashio

Wizard. “That’s why our theme is ‘your alter-ego party.’”

With the emphasis on costumes and alter-egos, Rock says, most attendees aim for the coveted best-costume bragging rights.

Past contest winners include: Colonel Sanders, Aladdin and Hulk Hogan, along with group outfits, such as the Black Leather Bikers and Aerobics Team. The Bashio might even best be described as a wild, imaginative fashion show in which people parade their alter-egos on the dance floor while abiding by the party’s motto: Dress to confuse and inspire.

Of course, in 2020 the in-person version of the Moustachio Bashio was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rock and crew’s solution? They offered a streaming iteration in 2020, thereby allowing any disappointed would-be attendees to join in virtually, all dressed up in spite of the dire circumstances. In 2023, the Bashio returned at full power

and in person.

“Last year there was a special vibe,” Rock recounts. “After not having the Bashio for three years because of the pandemic, people were frothing at the mouth to get together again.”

Said frothing aside, Rock says the return to form highlighted a need to make 2024’s party all the more special. Thus, though the Bashio began 18 years ago, organizers will count this weekend’s party as its 15th anniversary. And, Rock says, they won’t let the milestone year go by unnoticed. For the 15th iteration, the quinceañera coming-of-age-celebration is set to feature a star-studded line-up spread across two dance floors, including Colorado funk-masters Magic Beans and Bay Areabased electro-fusion ensemble Smoked Out Soul, as well as numerous bands and DJs from Albuquerque, such as psychedelic danceable soundscape artist Zenova; house masters Adobe Disco; the futurist Southwestern mel-

odies of The Chachalacas; and mariachi from Que Onda.

The Bashio has always highlighted New Mexico artists of all stripes, from musicians and projection-mapping artists to filmmakers, performance artists and various other disciplines in between. On the visual art front this year, psychedelic painter Mr. Melty is slated to come alive in a live painting demo, while designer Hendrick Onderdonk will contemplate his own work by maximizing the décor. Participants can also reportedly expect the ghost of Bashio All-Time Costume Champion Ross White to mix in with the crowd. Any gamblers with an alter-ego? This year’s Moustachio Bashio includes a Lotería drawing for y’all to ease your itch for winning beyond your means.

Rock says word of mouth has attracted guests from Colorado, California and elsewhere since the Bashio started its tenure at Meow Wolf in 2017. Actually, he clarifies, Meow Wolf is the reason the party is even still going at all. See, the 10th anniversary of the party was meant to be its last until Meow Wolf officials offered up the space, making the Moustachio Bashio one of the longest-running dance parties in the Southwest. Meow Wolf is also no doubt a fitting location for this kind of show, what with its mysterious and borderline lysergic vibes.

Discovering the House of Eternal Return in the midst of a blissful celebration with fabulous music blasting on two dance floors is a one-of-a-kind opportunity, and with capacity maxing out at around 500, the Bashio remains a somewhat exclusive event. The party could even expand down the road, according to Rock. For now, however, it will remain an in-state affair, and one not to miss in case it becomes the next trending desert fest everyone wants to attend.

15TH ANNUAL MOUSTACHIO BASHIO

8 pm Saturday, March 30. $50-$60 Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

As in years past, the upcoming Moustachio Bashio is all about alter-egos.

COURTESY MOUSTACHIO BASHIO/LIEF DARLING

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BY LAYLA ASHER

WHAT DATING LOOKS LIKE NOW

Does it ever feel wild that four years ago most of us were stuck at home in lockdown, peeking out at the news from under our weighted anti-anxiety blankets, uncertain what the future had in store? In some ways, the pandemic feels like a suppressed memory that sporadically pops into your brain making you question if it actually happened. In other ways, it’s still very much not over—not completely, anyway. You try to make a doctor appointment for this century; or discover your grocery store is randomly out of all the butter; or go for a walk and see the endless parade of discarded masks on the side of the road. Worse: You get stupid freaking COVID-19 and it all comes rushing back.

Even better, in 2024 we get to experience one of the biggest pandemic triggers of all: an election replete with the same two underwhelming geezers who seem more than ready to stress us out and piss us off all over again, just like they did in 2020. Yet even though this aspect of postCOVID reality feels like a recurrent fever dream, the pandemic did change many other aspects of life—such as the way people approach dating. I’m here to help you take that first step.

I’m struggling with how to date in this politically hot climate. How far is too far when weighing political differences with a potential partner? I feel like it’s impossible to find someone who has the exact same views as I do, but it also feels impossible to compromise in this climate. How do I navigate this?

—POLITICALLY INCORRECT TIMING

Something I think might help is if you try to frame your views in a way that’s unique to you and honors the nuances of how you feel. In this tense climate, we put a lot of weight into speaking in absolutes, and I’m not sure that communicating that way in the dating world is helpful, at least at first.

I’m not talking about topics like racism and human rights. To me, those issues are not political. So maybe that’s first: Get clear on what you consider to be political issues and what you consider to be nonnegotiable fundamental rights that are not up for debate.

When broaching the subject with a date, try not to phrase comments with political keywords by asking questions like: “Are you pro-life or pro-choice?”

Instead, pose queries such as: “How did the reversal of Roe V. Wade make you feel? Was it something that made an impact in your life?” Doing this rather than using lingo we’ve all heard a zillion times on the news—lingo that doesn’t inspire connectivity, btw—won’t box you or your date in conversationally, and you’ll be able to learn a lot more about each other, or even from each other. If you start looking for the places where you connect rather than places where you’d have to compromise your views, you may be surprised at how aligned you are with other people. You are allowed to be strong and soft at the same time, even in this climate.

My self-esteem took a hit during lockdown, and it’s made me continue to isolate. I want to feel good about myself before I get back out there and step into the dating world, but I don’t know how to break that barrier. Do you have a formula for success?

—LOCKED DOWN ON MYSELF

The number one message I want you to know is that you are so not alone with how you are feeling. I hear statements like this all the time and have even felt this way myself. But more than that, the data backs it up. In 2021, AdCare Treatment Centers released poll results that found one in five Americans suffered from low selfesteem during the pandemic—including a shocking 27% of New Mexicans. That’s a pretty significant number. Numerous studies in recent years have detailed the impact social isolation from the pandemic has had on mental health. One study published last September by lead researcher and Harvard’s John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology Tyler VanderWeele and others pointed out that when you become very lonely, you actually tend to withdraw further from your community—which in my opinion is a big part of what is happening here.

It’s a vicious cycle and, instead of worrying about dating right now, I want you to try and break the cycle by putting yourself in social settings again—ones where you can feel the pulse of the world. See live music, dance, meet friends for dinner and lively conversation, or, if you’re a more “dive into the deep end” type of person, travel to a big city and pretend you live there for a week or two. Anything that helps connect you back to the collective energetic field again. This is one of those instances where the only thing that can prepare you for doing the thing is doing the thing.

Layla Asher is a local sex worker on a mission to spread radical self-love to her community and the world. Please submit your questions to thenakedlayla@gmail.com and include an alias that protects your anonymity.

To Be Amina: An Interview with Carolina Mama

Fantasy-fueled jazz maven takes over Paradiso for one night only

BY JAMES REICH author@sfreporter.com

For the past two years, Argentinian musician and composer Carolina Mama has made Santa Fe her home. Now, she sits before a large bohemian mirror in an apartment above Brooklyn’s eclectic bar LunÀtico where she will begin a series of shows swinging out to San Francisco’s Black Cat before returning to Santa Fe and Paradiso on March 29. All this is in support of her debut album Amina

As we speak, she has just escaped the subway where an accident delayed her train, once again.

“It’s the story of New York!” she says.

From childhood, Mama embarked upon a passionate study of the folkloric music of South America, from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and beyond.

“Every country has its own vibe, and it’s so magical,” she tells SFR. “Then I really got into jazz in my late teens and early twenties, and it blew my mind because it’s such an amazing folkloric music from this country.”

These intense explorations led to a full scholarship at the New School’s Jazz and Contemporary Music program, where she chose fellow-Argentinian jazz pianist-composer Guillermo Klein as her mentor. Was there something in jazz that was also present in traditional folkloric music for her? What bridged the two?

She pauses.

“That’s a beautiful question. I’ve never been asked that. I think there were two things,” La Mama continues. “Definitely the rhythm. I felt something that was not from South America, and early on, I would hear these drummers and think ‘what are they doing, and why and how?’ They were

like octopuses. That was in my late teens, but in my early twenties, it was harmony. That is something that I will always give to jazz, that my ear opened.”

Mama’s musical quest for complexity is also informed by her background in filmmaking.

“Storytelling is the whole engine of what I do. The most important thing for me as a musician is having a story to tell,” she explains. “It doesn’t matter if it’s funny, sad or if it’s sexy or completely depressing. Because I relate to artists who struggle.”

Both jazz and film remain maledominated fields.

“Yes, I struggle with that still,” she says.

“I come from a country where we’re really direct. I don’t like machismo…And I can tell some people I’m a musician and they say, ‘What do you sing?’ And I ask, ‘Why are you assuming that I just sing?’”

In addition to composing, Mama has interpreted and arranged music, from canonical jazz like “You Don’t Know What Love Is” to The Black Keys’ “Little Black Submarines.” What compels her to inter-

S torytelling is the whole engine of what I do. The most important thing for me as a musician is having a story to tell.

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pret a particular song?

“When I fall in love with a song, let’s put it like that, it’s because that song brings out a new, unique sense in me that I haven’t heard before. Whether it’s through the storytelling or the musicianship, that artist has achieved something new,” Mama says. “That’s when I say, ‘let’s go study, let’s interpret it.’ The act of interpreting allows you to grasp for a second what that person was doing when they did it. It’s entering someone else’s universe for a second and having that magic.”

As a composer, she continues, some songs are simply mesmerizing.

“Where did this person write this? Where were they at? Were they at their house? Were they traveling? Were they with their wife? Were they alone? Did they just break up? Did someone just die?” Mama wonders aloud. “And it’s really interesting as a composer when people have come to me and said that my music really moved them and made them think about this, and this, and this…”

Her laughter is self-deprecating.

“And it has nothing to do with why I wrote it. And I say, ‘Interesting!’”

And isn’t even her own work an interpretation or a translation of her initially imagined music?

“I love that concept,” she says. “It’s an interpretation of your own idea.”

As I’m about to ask for something that no one could learn from her bio or the internet, she volunteers just the thing:

“For me everything is really related to magic,” she offers. “I’m a huge fan of fantasy, like The Lord of the Rings.”

As she laughs again, I ask if this is a long-term interest.

“Yes!” she says emphatically. “I am the generation that had the Golden Age of Disney, where your parents said, ‘Go and watch this VHS until you die.’ And I love Miyazaki. But I was obsessed with Tolkien.”

As for what people who have never heard Mama can expect from the Paradiso show?

“I like performing in smaller spaces because you can have that intimacy with the audience,” she notes. “So, as for what to expect: intimacy.”

After Paradiso, Mama is scheduled to play Daleee at El Prado’s Ktaos Solar Center on March 30, before hitting the modest setting of the Lincoln Center in New York City this May.

CAROLINA MAMA:

7:30 pm, Friday, March 29. $10-$20 Paradiso, 903 Early St. paradisosantafe.com

“Something I will always give to jazz,” says composer Carolina Mama, “...it opened my ear.”

JAMIE ELLINGTON

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Review

Something strange in your neighborhood

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Godspeed when it comes to fully enjoying Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire if you haven’t kept up since 1984—including with 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife. See, the thing is these movies ask (or demand, really) that you’re well-versed in the lore. If you’re not familiar, Frozen Empire might very well come across as baffling, what with its sea of characters, very specific references and reliance on “remember in the old movies when…?” jokes.

Frozen Empire picks up some time after the events of Afterlife. Paul Rudd’s Gary, formerly a science teacher, has joined the descendants of Ghostbusters co-founder Egon Spengler (the late Harold Ramis) and moved into the old fire station the G-busters have called home since always. There, said family (Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard and Mckenna Grace) have really leaned into the family biz by driving the old hearse (you know the one, right? It goes, “hweehhhhhr, hweehhhhhr!”), firing off the famous proton packs (essentially portable nuclear lasers) and insisting they are, collectively, afraid of no ghost. The mayor (William Atherton) doesn’t like this one bit, though, and, following a particularly destructive ghostbusting outing, tells the neo-busters that the youngest kid Phoebe (Grace) can’t bust any ghosts ‘til she’s at least 18.

Needless to say, she’s bummed, so she takes solace in the company of a chess-whiz ghost named Melody

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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 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 clan-

(Emily Alyn Lind) who, in what appears to be a stab at irony, seems to be the only person who can see Phoebe despite being mostly invisible herself.

Meanwhile, a shiftless loser archetype named Nadeem (Kumail Ali Nanjiani, The Big Sick) comes into possession of an ancient orb/ghost prison that contains the spirit of an even more ancient frost demon. Turns out Nadeem’s recently deceased grandma was the orb’s caretaker. But wouldn’t you know it, the demon gets loose, threatening all life on Earth with ice spikes and frost clouds and, like, cold wind and stuff.

As if that weren’t enough, the original Ghostbusters (Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray and Annie Potts; sadly, no Rick Moranis)—who are still doing ghost stuff, of course—pop in and out to deliver lines about how busting ghosts is always crazy. This leaves performers like Rudd, Wolfhard and Coon with very little screen time while Grace’s Phoebe hangs out with Aykroyd’s Ray for minute after minute after minute.

Oh, the other actors all try their damn best to make their brief time in Frozen Empire feel like a hoot, but when a movie has a supporting character named Podcast (Logan Kim; ugh) and drags Patton Oswalt all the way to set solely for a massive second act exposi-

destine 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 depression 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. (ADV) Violet Crown, R, 104 min.

DUNE: PART TWO

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tion dump, it’s hard to stay focused instead of partaking in over-the-top eye rolls.

Ultimately, director/writer Gil Kenan tries to cram too much into his movie’s roughly two-hour running time. This makes much of Frozen Empire feel like a wasted opportunity to break new ground. Perhaps if Kenan and company—he co-wrote the movie with the late Ivan Reitman, director of the original Ghostbusters, and his son Jason, director of Ghostbusters: Afterlife—had not overloaded the film with so many callbacks (Slimer, ghost librarian, Stay Puft Marshmallow Man—now in miniature asexual reproduction form), they could have at least made something that doesn’t feel like a series of boxes waiting to be checked. There’s a difference between franchise fans and people who just kind of liked the first movie in the ‘80s—Frozen Empire doesn’t seem suited to either group.

GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE

Directed by Kenan With Grace, Rudd, Coon, Wolfhard, Kim, Aykroyd, Hudson, Murray, Lind and Potts Violet Crown, Regal PG-13, 115 min.

save a few, like his mom, in their never-ending lust for blood and power.

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

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

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),

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 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) by stabbing anyone in sight.

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. 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.

And it all leads up to one very important conclusion: Like the new Ghostbusters, you must already be pretty into Dune in book or film form to love this thing. (ADV)

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

JONESIN’ CROSSWORD

“Free Throw Line”—it’s a themeless!

by Matt Jones

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19 What Project Gutenberg offers, in e-book formats

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25 What extreme Dutch sportspeople try to jump with a pole

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6 1994 Eurodance hit based on an old American folk song

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8 TikTok offerings involving pencils, maybe

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming days, your hunger will be so inexhaustible that you may feel driven to devour extravagant amounts of food and drink. It’s possible you will gain ten pounds in a very short time. Who Knows? You might even enter an extreme eating contest and devour 46 dozen oysters in ten minutes!

APRIL FOOL! Although what I just said is remotely plausible, I foresee that you will sublimate your exorbitant hunger. You will realize it is spiritual in nature and can’t be gratified by eating food. As you explore your voracious longings, you will hopefully discover a half-hidden psychological need you have been suppressing. And then you will liberate that need and feed it what it craves!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus novelist Lionel Shriver writes, “There’s a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” In accordance with astrological omens, I recommend you experiment with Shriver’s strategy in the coming weeks. APRIL FOOL! I lied. In fact, Lionel Shriver’s comment is one of the dumbest thoughts I have ever heard. Why would anyone want the cheap, damaged liberation that comes from feeling indifferent, numb, and passionless? Please do all you can to disrupt and dissolve any attraction you may have to that state, Taurus. In my opinion, you now have a sacred duty to cultivate extra helpings of enthusiasm, zeal, liveliness, and ambition.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): At enormous cost and after years of study, I have finally figured out the meaning of life, at least as it applies to you Geminis. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to reveal it to you unless you send me $1,000 and a case of Veuve Clicquot champagne. I’ve got to recoup my investment, right?! APRIL FOOL! Most of what I just said was a dirty lie. It’s true that I have worked hard to uncover the meaning of life for you Geminis. But I haven’t found it yet. And even if I did, I would of course provide it to you free. Luckily, you are now in a prime position to make dramatic progress in deciphering the meaning of life for yourself.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): For a limited time only, you have permission from the cosmos to be a wildly charismatic egomaniac who brags incessantly and insists on getting your selfish needs met at all times and in all places. Please feel free to have maximum amounts of narcissistic fun, Cancerian! APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating a bit, hoping to offer you medicinal encouragement so you will stop being so damn humble and self-effacing all the time. But the truth is, now is indeed an excellent time to assert your authority, expand your clout, and flaunt your potency and sovereignty.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Michael Scott was a character in the TV sitcom The Office. He was the boss of a paper company. Played by Leo actor Steve Carell, he was notoriously self-centered and obnoxious. However, there was one famous scene I will urge you to emulate. He was asked if he would rather be feared or loved. He replied, “Um, easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” Be like Michael Scott, Leo! APRIL FOOL! i was half-kidding. It’s true I’m quite excited by the likelihood that you will receive floods of love in the coming weeks. It’s also true that I think you should do everything possible to boost this likelihood. But I would rather that people be amazed and pleased at how much they love you, not afraid.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Now would be an excellent time for you to snag a Sugar Daddy or Sugar Momma or Sugar NonBinary Nurturer. The astrological omens are telling me that life is expanding its willingness and capacity to provide you with help, support, and maybe even extra cash. I dare you to dangle yourself as bait and sell your soul to the highest bidder. APRIL FOOL! I was half-kidding. While I do believe it’s prime time to ask for and receive more help, support, and extra cash, I don’t believe you will have to sell your soul to get any of it. Just be yourself!

Week of March 27th

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Happy Unbirthday, Libra! It’s that time halfway between your last birthday and your next. Here are the presents I plan to give you: a boost in your receptivity to be loved and needed; a constructive relationship with obsession; more power to accomplish the half-right thing when it’s hard to do the totally right thing; the disposal of 85 percent of the psychic trash left over from the time between 2018 and 2023; and a provocative new invitation to transcend an outworn old taboo. APRIL FOOL! The truth is, I can’t possibly supply every one of you with these fine offerings, so please bestow them on yourself. Luckily, the cosmic currents will conspire with you to make these things happen.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Now would be an excellent time to seek liposuction, a facelift, Botox, buttocks augmentation, or hair transplants. Cosmic rhythms will be on your side if you change how you look. APRIL FOOL! Everything I just said was a lie. I’ve got nothing against cosmetic surgery, but now is not the right time to alter your appearance. Here’s the correct oracle: Shed your disguises, stop hiding anything about who you really are, and show how proud you are of your idiosyncrasies.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I command you to love Jesus and Buddha! If you don’t, you will burn in Hell! APRIL FOOL! I was just kidding. I was being sensationalistic to grab your attention. Here’s my real, true oracle for you: Love everybody, including Jesus and Buddha. And I mean love them all twice as strong and wild and tender. The cosmic powers ask it of you! The health of your immortal soul depends on it! Yes, Sagittarius, for your own selfish sake, you need to pour out more adoration and care and compassion than you ever have before. I’m not exaggerating! Be a lavish Fountain of Love!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you gave me permission, I would cast a spell to arouse in you a case of ergophobia, i.e., an aversion to work. I think you need to take a sweet sabbatical from doing business as usual.

APRIL FOOL! I was just joking about casting a spell on you. But I do wish you would indulge in a lazy, do-nothing retreat. If you want your ambitions to thrive later, you will be wise to enjoy a brief period of delightful emptiness and relaxing dormancy. As Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein recommends, “Don’t just do something! Sit there!”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you get the book Brain Surgery for Beginners by Steven Parker and David West. You now have the power to learn and even master complex new skills, and this would be a excellent place to start. APRIL FOOL! I was halfkidding. I don’t really think you should take a scalpel to the gray matter of your friends and family members— or yourself, for that matter. But I am quite certain that you currently have an enhanced power to learn and even master new skills. It’s time to raise your educational ambitions to a higher octave. Find out what lessons and training you need most, then make plans to get them.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the religious beliefs of Louisiana Voodoo, one God presides over the universe but never meddles in the details of life. There are also many spirits who are always intervening and tinkering, intimately involved in the daily rhythm. They might do nice things for people or play tricks on them—and everything in between. In alignment with current astrological omens, I urge you to convert to the Louisiana Voodoo religion and try ingenious strategies to get the spirits to do your bidding. APRIL FOOL! I don’t really think you should convert. However, I believe it would be fun and righteous for you to proceed as if spirits are everywhere—and assume that you have the power to harness them to work on your behalf.

Homework: Speak aloud as you tell yourself the many ways you are wonderful. Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com

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HELP YOUR NEIGHBORS BY BECOMING AN ESL or LITERACY TUTOR. Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe’s 10-hour training prepares volunteers to tutor adults in English as a Second Language (ESL) The ESL new tutor orientation will be held online on Thursday, April 11th, from 4 to 6 p.m., and the in-person training will be on Friday & Saturday, April 12th and 13th from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at SFCC. A registration meeting and a 2-hour follow-up workshop are also included. For more information, please call 505-428-1353 or visit www.lvsf. org to complete an application. No experience or second language necessary!

I’VE HAD THIS DREAM for a long time: I want to produce a live radio show like Prairie Home Companion, with Santa Fe’s unique flavor. How can we make it happen? I know there’s the talent here to do it, that’s a given!

I welcome your ideas, know-how and enthusiasm. Initial meeting to discuss my vision, Tuesday, April 2 10:30am at Southside Library Cafe Room. Text to RSVP 505-6990023 or anniedee53@gmail.com

State of New Mexico In the Probate Court County Of Santa Fe Case No. 2024-0036 In the Matter of the Estate of Richard John Daly, Deceased

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the estate of the decedent. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal presentative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 100 Catron Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501. Dated: March 1, 2024. /s/ Joseph K. Daly 319 Santistevan Name Taos. NM 87571 (505) 249-7818 jdaly@schulerdaly.com

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO No. D-101-PB-2024-00052

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT C. MOREAN, DECEASED.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the estate of the decedent. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe,

Mexico, located at the following address: