Santa Fe Reporter, March 8, 2023

Shirts vs Skates

BY ANDY LYMAN + ANDREW OXFORD, P.12

How Santa Fe leaders’ lack of transparency led to an avoidable, public dust-up between ice sports and soccer

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PASSING GRASS 8

The Legislature is on track to approve some changes to the state’s cannabis law, but it’s likely to be down to the wire

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SHIRTS VS. SKATES

How Santa Fe leaders’ lack of transparency led to an avoidable, public dust-up between ice sports and soccer

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MOBILE HOME ACT HELP

The Mobile Home Park Act was enacted to provide protection for park residents. Most residents aren’t aware of the act or the protections it offers. The act needs improvements!

Recently Senate Bill 298 was introduced in the NM Senate Health & Public Affairs Committee. It would strengthen protections for park residents including rent control and stronger enforcement provisions by the Attorney General’s office to include significant fines for violations of the MHPA committed by park owners and management.

Lobby groups representing property owners and real estate organizations spoke against the bill citing claims of rent control would inhibit their financial ability to make improvements, and fines would put issues into District Court. Fines should be levied if violations are committed. Why should park owners and management get a “get out of

jail free” card if they commit violations of the MHPA?

The measure did not make it through committee. One member of the committee is also a rental property owner. There may be other rental property owners on the committee.

The Legislature’s failure to take action to protect New Mexico park residents against violations, illegal practices and unscrupulous rent increases, even though there is clear evidence of these acts, is a classic example of elected officials choosing lobbyists and their money over the needs of the people.

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Passing Grass

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

It became clear during the last few days of the regular 2021 New Mexico legislative session that cannabis legalization would not become law before the clock ran out. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham called a special session days later that led to passage of the Cannabis Regulation Act and subsequent legal smoke sessions. Now, two years later, it looks like high priority cannabis measures might not suffer the same fate. Changes to the cannabis law have a week and a half to make it to the governor’s desk, but that’s a lifetime in the last days of the Legislature.

A handful of bills are aimed at changing how cannabis is taxed, where to send revenue and the life of a medical cannabis card. One bill many in the industry have been clamoring for since 2021 might be approved with only days to spare.

House Bill 313 aims to smooth out a disparity between what cannabis microbusinesses and larger producers are allowed to grow. Current law cements plant counts for those smaller growers at 200 mature plants. Larger-scale growers can have up to 20,000 flowering plants and that limit is decided by the more malleable Cannabis Control Division rules. The measure would change microbusinesses’ limit to 10% of what standard producers can grow.

During the bill’s first hearing in the House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee last month, its sponsor, Rep. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe, told members without the law change, smaller producers’ ability to expand with market demand would be at the whim of the Legislature.

“We don’t want to have to continue to revisit the plant count every single time we want to raise or lower the plant count for the larger growers,” Romero said.

HB 313 would also create a social equity bureau under the cannabis division. Romero says it would be tasked with making sure all New Mexicans can be represented in the industry if they want.

“We have a very diverse state, and we just want, when we look at how we’re setting up the industry, it to look and feel like our culture,” she says.

Romero says the bill also would give the cannabis division more regulatory powers—a much needed addition to the law.

cannabis shops popping up without over sight, and I think this really helps that, just to make sure that they have some more regulatory teeth when it comes to bad actors,” Romero tells SFR.

tion in New Mexico was a separate law passed alongside the CRA that requires automatic expunge ment of cannabis charges and convictions from before resi dents could legally puff, puff, pass.

House Bill 314, is meant to clean up the process of expungement, which “is the key portion of why we legal ized recreational cannabis.”

cords have been expunged, though there are still more complicated cases languish ing in the court system. HB 314, she says, would help the courts identify those types of cases, but would also provide an ave nue for people with records to check on the status of their previous convictions or charges.

HB 314 is awaiting a hearing in its one and only Senate committee, but another of Romero’s cannabis bills—intended to earmark cannabis tax revenue—is dead because of what she chalks up to “amateur hour in

how budgets work” on her part.

House Bill 315 would have pulled a portion of cannabis taxes collected and

grams. Romero says she has since learned that “you’re supposed to put the money in the budget and then propose the fund.”

“We thought we’d propose the funds, and then be able to work through the interim and then fill up the fund, understanding what the fund was purposed for,” Romero says.

She plans to work on that proposal during the Legislature’s off months.

“I think there’s a lot of really, really awesome opportunities there,” Romero says. “But we will have to work through

There are some other cannabis bills in various stages of the process. House Bill 429, which Romero is co-sponsoring, is another clean-up bill that adds cannabis to the list of contraband not allowed in jails and prisons—needed, supporters say, because the plant was inadvertently removed through the Cannabis Regulation Act.

“When we repealed all the laws criminalizing cannabis possession, where it was legal for adults to carry, in the contraband language, all controlled substances were prohibited from being allowed into jails,” she says. “Now we clarify that cannabis is also still not allowed

HB 429 is one committee away from the House floor. Assuming approval from the full House, it would go to the Senate for committee assignments.

Two Senate bills are also trucking through committee and floor votes. Senate Bill 242, sponsored by Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, would require medical cannabis patients to renew their cards every two years instead of the current three-year standard.

Senate Bill 147, sponsored by Sen. Benny Shendo, D-Jemez Pueblo, and Rep. Jason Harper, R-Rio Rancho, would slightly change how recreational-use cannabis is taxed. The state’s Taxation and Revenue Department includes the Cannabis Excise Tax when charging cannabis companies for gross receipts taxes, a process often referred to as pyramiding. If passed into law, SB 147 would remove cannabis taxes from what GRT can be applied to.

The session ends next Saturday, March 18, at noon.

The Legislature is on track to approve some changes to the state’s cannabis law, but it’ll be down to the wire

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Here, Kitty, Kitty

Why we keep healthy free-roaming cats in their neighborhoods

BY JACK HAGERMAN tips@sfreporter.com

You may be wondering about the noticeable lack of available adult cats up for adoption at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter lately. Given how much we’ve been talking about how overwhelmed shelters across the country are with higher intake numbers and fewer placement options, that probably looks and feels weird to you. But there is a good reason.

First and foremost, we’ve been empowered with a lot of research into animal behavior that is helping to inform new and more effective ways to help them. This is particularly true when it comes to managing free-roaming cats.

Secondly, we are getting so much better at providing care and services to animals (and their people) where they actually are, in the safety of their homes, rather than bringing them into the shelter where they will be unnecessarily exposed to the trauma of being in a strange place, more susceptible to disease (which spreads easily when animals are kept in confined spaces close together) and the inevitability of adapting to a new home environment they aren’t comfortable navigating safely.

We used to think the best thing we could

do for cats found outdoors is bring them to the shelter. We’ve since learned that it’s usually best to keep healthy free-roaming cats in their neighborhoods. Here are some very important reasons why:

We shouldn’t assume that the cats we see around our neighborhoods have no home, or no one who loves and cares for them. They may even have a team of caretakers. Many times, free-roaming cats are cared for by multiple neighbors.

When we bring free-roaming cats into shelters unnecessarily, we may be uninten tionally taking them away from the people and families who love them. This creates a well of distrust between the community and the shelter.

Removing cats from the neighborhood and taking them to a shelter, often located far from their home, reduces the likelihood of that cat being reunited with their people. This disproportionately impacts marginalized communities that may not be able to have indoor pets in rental homes.

Studies show that cats are 10-50 times more likely to be reunited with their families when they are left where they are found rather than being taken to the shelter because many people do not know about their local shelter or do not think that their cat could be at the shelter.

Indiscriminately removing cats may also lead to more intact cats moving into the area. This is known as the “vacuum effect.” When

you remove animals from a community without also removing the available food and shelter resources there, you create space for more animals to move in—creating an even greater problem for the ecosystem.

Most people care about both cats and wildlife and want neither to be harmed. Community cat programs can reduce risks to wildlife by reducing the number of outdoor cats through spay and neuter efforts.

Abandonment laws, which regulate leaving an animal without proper or necessary care, do not apply to community cat practices. So our limited shelter resources need to be directed at helping those vulnerable animals swiftly and efficiently. At the shelter, we believe that the best way to serve healthy free-roaming cats is to manage their populations through humane and effective programs that support both them and the people who care for them. We support Shelter-NeuterReturn and Trap-Neuter-Return (SNR or

TNR) through which free-roaming cats are brought to the shelter or trapped, spayed or neutered, vaccinated and returned to their location of origin. These cats are “ear-tipped” so caretakers and others will easily recognize that they have been sterilized.

Another reason we’re seeing fewer cats in our shelter is because we’re now in a position to help folks who are coming to the shelter to surrender their cat because of some immediate crisis through our CASA program. Keeping pets with their people is our jam— and we’re really getting into it.

Here’s the thing. If we continue to kidnap healthy, happy, well adapted cats from their neighborhoods and bring them into the shelter environment, we stretch our limited resources so thin that we render ourselves ineffective in helping those animals that truly need us: the clearly abandoned, sick or injured, or kittens.

Speaking of kittens, if you’ve been interested in adopting, in just a few short weeks kitten season will be in full swing, and our shelter will be overflowing with available kittens for adoption. We will also be in serious need of foster homes for kittens under 2 months old. So if you want to fill your home with the sounds of adorable purrs and meows, now is the time to step up to help.

I realize some of these concepts may be new in this community, and that contributes to some of the confusion around what help actually looks like for vulnerable animals. The animal welfare industry is experiencing a long overdue renaissance where we are using science, well-documented data and research analysis to inform best practices in a new, powerful way. My commitment to you as a reader is to try and keep you as informed as possible about the science behind our decision making while we navigate these new and exciting waters. As Oprah would say, when we know better, we do better.

Hagerman is CEO of the Santa Fe Animal Shelter.

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Shirts vs Skates

skating community descended in droves on City Council chambers and pleaded with the governing body not to cut into their rink time. During the same council meeting on Feb. 8, the soccer team’s owner asked the ice folks to take a breath and consider the community-building opportunities he says a professional sports team would create.

The tension remains, and the soccer team’s future in Santa Fe is now in limbo. A series of interviews and a close review of city records by SFR reveals Mayor Alan Webber and key city staff had been meeting behind closed doors with backers for more than half a year to hammer out the details, then publicly backtracked. The city has released specifics in dribs and drabs about its plan to host ice sports and a professional indoor soccer team in the same space. That opacity pitted fans of one sport against participants in others.

BY ANDY LYMAN + ANDREW OXFORD andylyman@sfreporter.com oxford@sfreporter.com

In retrospect, the drama started with a news release that should have stayed in someone’s Google drive.

Instead, officials in December posted an announcement on the City of Santa Fe’s website—also sent to reporters’ inboxes— declaring the Southside’s Genoveva Chavez Community Center as the new home of a yet-to-be-named, or formed, Major Arena Soccer League 2 team for six games a year. It was definitely news to those who spend hours at the community center’s skating rink perfecting their spins and slap shots that they would have to share the ice.

Granted, in 2020, the city publicly revealed the rink had been in the red for some time and that turning it into a multipurpose space was a possibility. Tammy Berendzen, president of the Santa Fe Skating Club, tells SFR the December announcement brought her back to that time when the city was floating the idea of permanently scrapping the ice altogether.

“It just sparked all of the same feelings that we had in the spring and summer of 2020,” she says. “Whatever tentative agreement or whatever the city thinks they want to do has really been done behind closed doors.”

Within weeks of the soccer announcement, which led to a few news stories, the

The city’s role—and its missteps—came into sharper focus last week, when City Manager John Blair issued a memo in which he tried to set the record straight. The Feb. 28 document raised as many questions as it answered, with Blair implying the soccer team’s owner had gone rogue and was no longer cooperating with Santa Fe officials.

Owner David Fresquez disputes most of the city’s story and says his idea to create the team and use the Chavez Center had immediate and enthusiastic support from Webber as far back as last summer. For his part, Webber tells SFR he could have handled the situation differently and takes responsibility for the mess that exists now.

Also unclear is how much money the soccer team would cost, whether the city would foot some of the bill and how Fresquez’s proposed six-game schedule would bring revenue to the Chavez Center—and even whether profits would be required to send the deal forward.

But Blair’s memo and SFR’s reporting leave one fact beyond dispute: It will now take some serious doing to bring arena soccer to Santa Fe, including a detente of sorts among Fresquez, who remains hopeful; city officials, some of whom are still in the dark; and ice sports enthusiasts who have been frosty on the notion of sharing the rink since they learned about it.

Berendzen traces her love for skating back to when she caught a glimpse of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. She was 16 at the time. Now, her 15-year-old daughter, who has been on the ice since before she could lace up her own skates, is a coach with

How Santa Fe leaders’ lack of transparency led to an avoidable, public dust-up between ice sports and soccer

the skating club’s Learn to Skate program. Berendzen has headed up the club for about 10 years and says she tried to explain to Webber how integral skating is to her family and many others in Santa Fe. The mayor, she contends, seemed intent on bringing arena soccer to town.

“I think we did a good job of educating them in what our needs are, and what our concerns were,” she says. “But at the end of the meeting, the mayor’s response was still, ‘I really want to see soccer in Santa Fe, and I want you all to help me make that happen.’”

Webber says his message to Berendzen and others during that meeting may have been misconstrued. He tells SFR he was trying to share his vision of expanding activities in Santa Fe.

“What I was saying was, ‘We don’t have to see this as a them versus us situation,’” Webber says. “It can be an opportunity where everybody benefits, including the ice community, and we get more recreation for everyone. And they could be a partner in making more positive things happen for the community.”

Webber also readily admits the city jumped the gun in announcing the soccer team.

“I think we got ahead of ourselves with the announcement,” he says. “There was never an agreement to have the team play at

the ice rink. And the first press release made it sound like there was and that that was my fault. That was a mistake.”

Webber says the city has since “tried to reel it back in” by clarifying that the soccer team’s proposed move into the Chavez Center is far from final, but “that message did not get through.”

The initial announcement and subsequent news stories rankled not only Berendzen and the skating club, but also local hockey enthusiasts. Santa Fe Hockey Association President Anne Killoy tells SFR she blames the city’s December announcement for all of the heartburn.

“I think they could have avoided this whole thing if they had done their due diligence in the first place,” Killoy says. “We have no beef with Fresquez or soccer, but we feel pitted against each other, unfortunately.”

One reason the city’s attempts to walk back the original announcement may not have convinced many people: Officials had previously considered repurposing the rink.

Berendzen has, over the past couple of years, collected a stack of city documents through Inspection of Public Records Act requests and shared some of what she found with SFR, including an email exchange from 2020 that showed city officials in discussions about turning the rink into a multi-

purpose field. But Berendzen didn’t learn about the city’s new plan to cover the ice six times a year with artificial turf—an idea she continues to oppose—until she read news stories based on the December 2022 announcement.

What wasn’t announced publicly at the time was the extent to which the mayor and other city officials had already been meeting with Fresquez to hammer out the de-

tails. Blair tells SFR that he, Fresquez and Webber have spoken almost weekly about the proposed soccer team since last last summer.

The city manager’s memo to councilors last week not only confirms Fresquez was in the mix the whole time, but it also contradicts the initial, exclamation-point-littered announcement.

“Santa Fe loves soccer! And now we’ll have a Santa Fe team playing in the Major Arena Soccer League, representing our kids, our families, and our community! The City is delighted to provide an assist and we’re eager to see David Fresquez and the team score the first goal,” the December announcement reads, in part.

A few months and much public feuding later, Blair constructed a timeline. Among other revelations, it says the Dec. 2 news release was a mistake:

“The press release includes language that the team will play at the GCCC ice rink, which was an error because no lease agreement had been drafted or agreed to. The ice community is taken by surprise by this announcement. As a result, a meeting is scheduled with GCCC Complex Manager [Jeremy] Perea, [Recreation Division] Director [Brian] Stinett and the President of the Ice Skating Club to discuss the proposal.”

I think we got ahead of ourselves with the announcement . There was never an agreement to have the team play at the ice rink.

-Alan Webber, mayor of Santa Fe

The Genoveva Chavez Community Center skating rink is open for public skating nearly every day.

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Shirts vs Skates

Blair’s memo indicates that Fresquez initially pitched the idea of an arena soccer team housed at the community center to city staff months ago.

“Mr. Fresquez’ soccer proposal was first brought to the attention of Community Services Director Maria Sanchez-Tucker and…[Recreation Director Brian] Stinett by Mr. Fresquez in August 2022,” Blair wrote. “Mr. Fresquez had previously approached some City Councilors, and some other City Staff in June 2022, about the soccer proposal.”

But Fresquez refutes that claim and says he first pitched the idea to an enthusiastic Webber.

“He loved the idea. He loved it,” says Fresquez, who is president of the Santa Fe Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a member of the city’s Economic Development Advisory Committee and runs his own athome caregiving operation. “He wanted to bring it to Santa Fe.”

Webber admits he liked Fresquez’s “outline of an idea for an arena team” and saw it as a way to appease the constituents who ask for more things to do in the city.

“My reaction was that it would be great if there were a way to have that be a springboard so that all parts of the community could get a benefit from his willingness to be a soccer entrepreneur,” Webber says.

But the city can’t afford staff to accommodate both a soccer team and enough ice time, at least in the short term, Webber says, though he hopes there’s still a creative way to launch the team.

“Would it be fun to have more ice time and more indoor soccer for our kids? Yes,” he says. “How do we grow that? And can we do it at the speed at which David needs to have his team play in this next winter season? If the answer to that is no, how will he pivot? And can we introduce him to people who could help him find a different venue?”

In his memo, Blair says hosting the soc-

cer team at the Chavez center “would require unanimous support of the Governing Body, the Community Services Department and the Recreation team, the ice community, the prospective arena soccer team, and the MASL2 league.”

But unanimous support, Blair concluded, “does not appear to exist.”

Webber walks back that sentiment and

tells SFR “there’s no requirements,” for unanimous agreement, but that he wants to get a “consensus” from everyone involved and find a “win-win” scenario.

City officials want to help Fresquez’s team find a venue, Blair says, and if it’s to be the Chavez Center, soccer players and ice users must agree to share the ice.

“That’s the crux of this issue,” Blair tells

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SFR. “There are secondary concerns about how much this costs. But at a foundational level, it comes back to whether there are ways the various sports communities can work together.”

Fresquez never considered another venue, he says, because arena soccer rules and field-of-play parameters are similar to hockey’s. And in his view there isn’t another suitable location in Santa Fe.

“Nowhere in my proposal was there another option, just the Chavez Center,” he says.

Fresquez has proposed the city chip in $221,000 for, among other costs, the flooring and turf the team would need. Fresquez’s cost to get the team kicking would be about $331,000.

While the city would keep some of the materials needed to convert the ice rink for other purposes, it’s not clear how the city would stand to benefit financially. City officials, according to Blair’s memo, say they would charge $200 an hour in rent. Fresquez calculates that would come out to $20,000 a year, a pittance compared to the Chavez Center’s budgetary shortfall. According to the city’s fiscal year 2019 audit—completed before COVID-19 shuttered the facility for stretches of time—the center was earning nearly $2 million in annual revenue but still had about $5.1 million in operating expenses for its pool, ice rink, fitness center and other programming.

Blair says that, as of last week, he had yet to see Fresquez’s business plan, so he was unclear on how exactly the city might make more than rent off the project. In any case, the city is not looking to reduce ice time for the sake of boosting revenue at the center.

“I don’t view any of our sports facilities in Santa Fe as intended to be money makers,” he says. “I don’t know [that] anyone looks at GCCC and says, ‘If we got rid of X and added Y, we could make money.’”

Santa Fe Skating Club President Tammy Berendzen has been trying to educate city officials on how often skaters use the rink and how important it is for families.

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During the February City Council meeting when ice skaters and hockey players turned out to advocate for their time on the ice, even without the issue being on the council’s agenda that night, it seemed like the deal was done. But without specifics coming from the mayor, who quietly listened to concerns without offering any comments or clarifications that the deal was in fact far from closed, comments became more panicked. Young children asked Webber not to take away their ice rink, and parents spoke passionately about how important it is to their families. Hockey players ranging in age also shared their concerns about losing ice time during the meeting.

Fresquez chimed in at the council meeting, too, urging collaboration between the two divided groups.

Meanwhile, city councilors have been left fielding questions about changes at the ice rink, though they’ve struggled to answer without many details of the plan.

“At the moment, there is no concrete proposal,” District 3 Councilor Jamie Cassutt, whose district includes the Chavez Center, tells SFR.

Cassutt says she believes ice sports and soccer sharing the space presents an interesting idea. She still has a lot of questions, though, such as how much it would cost the city and how much the city could gain.

Some councilors are more blunt.

“The cart was put before the horse,” District 2 Councilor Michael Garcia tells SFR, adding he never would have issued the December news release.

The city began its back-pedal as early as Jan. 19, when Blair’s timeline notes soccer backers wanted to issue another news release.

“Mr. Fresquez sent an email to Mayor Webber, City Manager Blair and Senior Advisor [Daniel] Maki with a draft press release regarding the soccer team playing at the GCCC ice rink,” Blair writes. “City Manager Blair responded to Mr. Fresquez letting him know that the City was not ready to move forward with such an announcement, and that there were a number of additional details to be worked out with multiple City departments.”

Fresquez tells SFR he didn’t issue the news release in question; the MASL2 league did.

“They said, ‘Don’t put out that press release,’” Fresquez says. “The league was already going to do their thing.”

Another wrinkle: Months before the news releases hit reporters’ desks, Webber sent the league a letter of intent.

“The City’s management is pursuing a lease with Mr. Fresquez for this purpose, as well as a strategy for obtaining the funds to invest in the infrastructure improvements that will be needed to host a MASL2 team, starting in 2023-2024 season,” reads a letter Webber wrote to the league in November.

Blair, in his memo, aruges that Webber’s letter left some wiggle room.

“It is worth noting that the letter did not specify a location for the team to play, nor did it provide a lease or budget,” Blair writes.

Fresquez doesn’t dispute that, but he says he made his intentions clear from the

beginning.

“They’re trying to say, ‘Well, we didn’t say it was the Chavez Center in the letter of intent,’” Fresquez says. “But in the press release, [the city] did. And in my proposal, it had the Chavez Center written all over it, because I know that this is the only place in town to have this venue.”

Arena soccer is unique in that it’s not just soccer played inside. The game is usually

played on a converted hockey rink, and the rules require players to sit in a penalty box for certain violations—just like in hockey. Another similarity: In both sports, players use the walls to direct and deflect the hockey puck or the soccer ball to gain advantages.

The closest MASL2 team to Santa Fe is the New Mexico Runners, based at the Rio Rancho Events Center, which is arranged more like a stadium and less like the Chavez Center, which has spectator seating on only one side of the rink.

Fresquez believes there’s enough interest in the capital to support his team, even with another just 50 miles down the road— and according to his version of events, so did Webber. But now Fresquez is disillusioned and confused by what he sees as a 180 from the mayor.

Berendzen is similarly disconcerted. Though the city’s public posture is now one of skepticism toward Fresquez’s proposal, she doesn’t completely buy it, even though it aligns with her wishes.

“I would like to think that this is the beginning of the city backing away from the idea, but I guess I’ve become a little too jaded in the process to actually believe that until I see it,” Berendzen says.

That might be for good reason, especially because Fresquez says he’s not done trying to make inroads with both the city and those who are clutching the rink.

“I have confidence that the city leadership and the ice community and, let’s call it, the soccer community can come to an agreement,” Fresquez says. “That’s what good healthy communities do, constant dialogue, working together and sharing.”

David Fresquez plans to launch a professional arena soccer team and says the Genoveva Chavez Community Center is the only feasible place in Santa Fe to host games.

Santa Fe’s hockey community showed up, en masse, to a February City Council meeting to urge the city not to cut ice time for a soccer team.

Reception: March 10, 5:00 – 7:00 PM MST

Steve Britko will talk about his life as a Master Printer and the art of printmaking at 5 PM

Session I: March 15, 10:30 AM MST

Session II: March 16, 10:30 AM MST

Exhibition of lots available online and at our Baca Railyard showroom Monday–Friday. Preview, register & bid at santafeartauction.com

EVENT THU/9

GROW ‘EM RIGHT

True story, there are those of us who hate yard work so hard that we have to let new people we meet know that in case they try to make us pull weeds or something. But it’s probably because we didn’t have the right teachers when we were young; or maybe we just didn’t understand how the fruits of our labors could be meaningful. While it’s too late for us, the Santa Fe Children’s Museum’s ongoing Seeds & Sprouts program should go a long way toward instilling better practices in today’s youths. Making use of the museum’s massive outdoor farming/gardening space, kids can learn how to grow chile, herbs and tomatoes, plus more aesthetic plants for grazing and pollinating animals and insects. Expert gardener Hector Solis knows how to hang with young folks, too, and we hear there’s sometimes a turtle. (ADV)

Santa Fe Children’s Museum: Seeds & Sprouts: 10:30-11:30 am Thursday, March 9. Free Santa Fe Children’s Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359

NOW AND THEN

OK, we admit it—we initially paused joyfully when we learned photographer Meridel Rubenstein will be showing work at Turner Carroll Gallery’s new contempo space, CONTAINER, because of her über-dope lowrider shots from the early ’80s. But learning a bit more about Rubenstein’s more recent work has us all a-twitter, too. Boiled down, the Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project finds Rubenstein documenting a combination of water remediation, garden design and environmental art in a southern region of Iraq, and while we could never fit as many words as Rubenstein deserves, her work is, in a word, fascinating. Find her speaking about the project and showing the shots; just make sure to RSVP by emailing darcy@turnercarrollgallery.com. (ADV)

Meridel Rubenstein Artist Talk: 5-6 pm Friday, March 10. Free CONTAINER, 1226 Flagman Way, (505) 995-0012

MUSIC MON/13

THE SPECTER OF BETHS

So maybe we’ve been bumping The Beths’ 2022 album Expert in a Dying Field because its eponymous opening track asks, “How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field?” and that speaks to us as journalists. Or maybe it’s just because members Elizabeth Stokes, Benjamin Sinclair and Tristan Deck have found such a catchy and satisfying combo of chorusy pop goodness and moving vocal melodies that you’d have to be missing your heart to not jump on board immediately. The why isn’t as important as the how when it comes to seeing this sugary-sweet New Zealand-based trio—and the way you do it is to pop by Meow Wolf. Fans of Waxahatchee and Snail Mail will find a lot to love here, but know that Stokes’ voice is so smooth and wonderful she’s in a class all her own—jeeze, what a banger band. (ADV)

The Beths: 8 pm Monday, March 13. $25

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

EVENT SAT/11

Glassterpiece

Though the practice of creating stained glass masterpieces dates back thousands of years, its place in our daily lives remains ubiquitous because, let’s face it, pretty colors are pretty colors. Glass is so commonplace, in fact, that it’s almost like we take it for granted at this point, but there are those who go further, sharing their love of the stuff with anyone they can and participating in a tradition so old that no one even knows when or where it began.

Enter TLC Stained Glass, a relatively new studio/workshop space from artist Theresa Cashman, who will host a grand re-opening this week. At its core, TLC is an educational space through which Cashman imparts her passion for stained glass with classes and workshops that delve into cutting, staining, soldering and using the Tiffany method of adjoining pieces with copper foil tape. In a broader sense, Cashman’s new location not only keeps the classwork going, but features a gallery-type element, as well as quarterly donations to nonprofits Metro Caring, which focuses on food insecurity, and RIP Medical Debt, which pays off medical bills for those in need.

Oh, and creating stained glass pieces is fun and beautiful, too.

“I love the way glass emits light and color in a medium that’s unlike painting,” Cashman tells SFR.

Cashman left the high-stakes world of

high school science teaching for stained glass, and though she’s only been in business about a year and a half, had already outgrown her original spot in Santa Fe’s Design Center. She’s basically self-taught in the art of stained glass, too, which is to say she’s got a knack for explaining how the process works so even the most unaware glass n00b can learn. Not only that, but she’s the only person in Santa Fe working in stained glass on this level, a responsibility she doesn’t take lightly. You can learn all about how it works at the upcoming opening event for the new TLC spot this week—which will be catered by chef Fernando Ruiz’s soon-toopen taco joint, Escondido.

“You never know exactly how it’s going to look until you hold the final product up to the sun,” Cashman says. “You can find compatible colors and all, but really, until it’s complete...it’s always interesting to see how everything interacts once it’s finalized.”

The same could be said for the new TLC space, but the gorgeous glass and siren call of tacos sure don’t hurt. (Alex

De Vore)

TLC STAINED GLASS STUDIO/GALLERY OPENING

2-5 pm Saturday, March 11. Free TLC Stained Glass 1730 Camino Carlos Rey #100 (505) 372-6259

TLC Stained Glass finds a bigger space to teach and show its stuff

COURTESY THERESA CASHMAN

ARTIST TALK FRI/10

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ONGOING

ART

ANNUAL MEMBERS’ SHOW

Foto Forum Santa Fe

1714 Paseo de Peralta

(505) 470-2582

More than 50 local photogs.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Fri; 12:30-5 pm, Tues, free

AMALGAMATION: BEHIND

THE STUDIO DOOR

Vital Spaces Midtown Annex

1600 St. Michael’s Drive vitalspaces.org

Printmaker, painters and more.

1-5 pm, Tues-Sun, free

ARRIVALS 2023

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

A sneak peek at the gallery’s upcoming exhibitions.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

ATI MAIER

Peyton Wright Gallery

237 E Palace Ave., (505) 989-9888

Psychedelic twists on universal landscapes.

9 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat, free

ATTASALINA

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915

Twenty years of black-and-white autobiographical photography.

11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

BEVERLY MCIVER

Turner Carroll Gallery

725 Canyon Road

(505) 986-9800

Vulnerable, empathetic portraits.

10 am-6 pm, Sat-Thurs;

10 am-7 pm, Fri, free

BLAIR: TECHNICOLOR GLASSES

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

Vibrant acrylic portraits.

7:30 am-5 pm, free

BRENDA BIONDO

Assaf-Plotek Fine Art

102 W San Francisco St., #6 (505) 690-4825

Abstract geometric photography. By appointment, free

CALL FOR ENTRIES: MINIPRINT

Online bit.ly/3XScgEF

Submit hand-pulled prints for Hecho a Mano’s spring show.

CARLOS CANUL: BETWEEN WORLDS

Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403

Darkly surreal landscapes playing with Meso-American mythology.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

CARRIED IMPRESSIONS: LITHOGRAPHS AND MONOPRINTS

Gerald Peters Contemporary

1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700

Archiving Phyllis Sloane and Garo Antreasian’s 1960s print works.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

DANA HART-STONE AND DANA NEWMANN: A STATE OF NEWNESS

Pie Projects

924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681

Mixed-media pieces formed from antique ephemera.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free EBENDORF AND THE USUAL SUSPECTS form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Selections from the career of famed jeweler Robert Ebendorf. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

who do you

FEAR OF FLYING TITLE Gallery

423 W San Francisco St. titlegallery.org

Humans and birds on canvas.

Noon-4 pm, Sat or by appt., free

FOTO CUBA

Artes de Cuba

1700 A Lena St., (505) 303-3138

Documenting life on the island.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free

FRANCIS DIFRONZO

Evoke Contemporary

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

Uneasy local landscapes. 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat, free

HERMAN MARIL: SCENES FROM MID-CENTURY AMERICA

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

A selection of the late modernist’s sparse, elegant paintings. 10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri; 10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

IMMORTAL

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

Honoring the work of seven recently deceased ceramicists. 8 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free

The Best of Santa Fe ballot nomination period ends March 15 at www.vote.sfreporter.com

2023 2023

Swoon’s enormous installation series Seven Contemplations presides over CONTAINER for just a few more days.

THE CALENDAR

INSIDE OUT: THE MENAGERIE ESCAPES

Axle Contemporary

Visit axleart.com for daily location (505) 670-5854

Chromatic, symbolic abstracts.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Thurs, Sat-Sun;

10 am-7 pm, Fri, free

INVENTORY OF REFLECTION:

C ALEX CLARK

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Holograms embedded in glass.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

JAKE TRUJILLO

Sun & Dust

616 Canyon Road

(603) 801-5732

Neon clouds and tonalist vistas.

11 am-6 pm, Tues-Sat;

Noon-5 pm, Sun-Mon, free

JESSICA LAUREL REESE

Prism Arts & Other Fine Things

1300 Luisa St., Ste. 3A

(248) 763-9642

Steel rod figurative sculptures.

11 am-5 pm, Weds-Sat, free

KAREN HAMPTON

Kouri + Corrao Gallery

3213 Calle Marie (505) 820-1888

Textiles blending historical commentary with folk imagery.

Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

LISA GORDON: WILD THINGS

Sorrel Sky Gallery

125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555

Cast sculptures of Southwestern animals.

9:30 am-5:30 pm,Mon-Sat;

10 am-5 pm, Sun, free

LISBETH CORT

El Zaguán

545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016

Chromatic collages.

9 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free

MOVING IMAGE FILM CO-OP

No Name Cinema

2013 Piñon st., nonamecinema.org

Ephemera from Santa Fe’s 1971-72 DIY film scene.

During events or by appt., free

PEDRO REYES

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Multimedia political sculptures.

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

PRESTON SINGLETARY AND JODY NARANJO

Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Glass pieces featuring northwest Indigenous designs.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri;

9 am-5 pm, Sat, free

RESONANCES

Currents 826

826 Canyon Road

(505) 772-0953

Southwestern artists experiment with futuristic techniques.

11 am-4 pm, Fri-Sun, free

SF PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

Online fotoforumsantafe.com/award

Submit snaps by March 15 to win a show at Foto Forum.

$35-$45

SEVEN CONTEMPLATIONS

CONTAINER

1226 Flagman Way (505) 995-0012

Artist Swoon shares installations honoring cyclicality.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, free

SFR FOOD FOTO CONTEST

Online

sfreporter.com/contests

Send us your most mouthwatering photos by March 28 for glory and a possible cash prize.

$5

SHADOWS AND LIGHT

ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320

Exploring the concept of chiaroscuro across media.

10 am-5 pm, free

SOFT

Smoke the Moon 616 1/2 Canyon Road smokethemoon.com

Multidisciplinary takes on the word “soft.”

Noon-4 pm, Wed-Sun, free

SPONTANEOUS INSPIRATION

Aurelia Gallery 414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915

Abstract paintings probing the aesthetics of decay.

11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

STARR HARDRIDGE:

RENEWAL

Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Symbolic paintings culling from pointillism and Southeastern woodland imagery.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri;

9 am-5 pm, Sat, free

STILL BEAUTY

Obscura Gallery

1405 Paseo de Peralta (505) 577-6708

Photographing the quiet, short days of winter.

11 am-5 pm, free

TERRAN LAST GUN

Hecho Gallery

129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882

Piikani aesthetics meet pop art.

10 am-5 pm, Weds-Sun, free

THESE WINGS: MICHAEL GODEY

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery

222 Delgado St. (928) 308-0319

Mixed-media pieces probing the connections between humans and the natural world.

11 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat, free

TIMELESS | RANDALL REID

Nüart Gallery

670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888

Sculptural pieces exploring memory and perception.

10 am-5 pm, free

LA VIE DES ARBRES: JEAN

MARC RICHEL

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Paintings, collages and reverse prints inspired by trees.

10 am-8 pm, Tues-Thurs;

10 am-6 pm, Fri-Sat, free

WES MILLS: DRAWINGS

5. Gallery

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

New works on paper.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sat, free WINTER ABSTRACTIONS:

GROUP SHOW

Gaia Contemporary

225 Canyon Road #6 (505) 501-0415

Mixed-media abstract offerings.

10 am-5 pm, free

WINTER FESTIVAL PART

TWO

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

A group show highlighting representational artists.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri;

10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

WINTER GROUP EXHIBITION

Charlotte Jackson Fine Art

554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688

Architectural pieces lit by pops of primary colors.

10 am-5:30 pm, Tues-Fri; 10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

WINTER GROUP SHOW

Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art

558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711

Sculpture, photography and more.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

WED/8

BOOKS/LECTURES

NATIONAL PARK MYSTERY

SERIES: BOOK EIGHT

Garcia Street Books

376 Garcia St. (505) 986-0151

The book in question is Scott Graham’s Saguaro Sanction

5-6 pm, free

WALKING FOUR DIRECTIONS

Collected Works

Bookstore and Coffeehouse

202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226

Author Rob Hirsch offers a New Mexico-specific perspective on climate change.

6-7 pm, free

EVENTS

BEATS ANTIQUE NIGHT 1

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

House of Tarot presents an evening of arcana-inspired belly dance.

7 pm, $25-$40

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Second Street Brewery (Railyard)

1607 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-3278

Don't call it trivia.

8-10 pm, free

HISTORY CHAT

35 Degrees North

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

Talk geo-politics with local tour guide Christian Saiia.

Noon-2 pm, free

CONTINUED ON PAGE 21

MUSIC LINEUP

ragamala dance company presents Sacred Earth

It must’ve been 1983 or ‘84 when I first snuck a viewing of History of the World, Part 1 on VHS in my parents’ basement. Mel Brooks’ dangling-off-the-cliff humor of the age wasn’t especially appropriate for a 9- or 10-year-old, hence the sneaking, but I loved it even then. Less appropriate, I suppose, for a 5- or 6-year-old, which was how old my younger brother would have been, but I recall his presence at the screening, anyway. The film, like others of Brooks’ oeuvre, has been a favorite for decades and, in my family, we often communicate, bond, remember through dialogue from cinema’s best, stored in the honeycomb of our collective hippocampus. So, when I texted my brother some weeks back to remind him Brooks’ long-ago promised History of the World, Part 2 would be streaming on Hulu in four installments soon, he did not respond with plaintext delight. “Do you know the punishment for a slave who strikes a Roman citizen?” he inquired instead. “They shove a living snake up your ass,” came my reply. “Aaahh. No, but that’s very creative,” he wrote, finishing Brooks’ bit.

Brooks is 96 now, a full 42 flips of the calendar past the year in which he gave the world Part 1. It’s not his most famous work—Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and The Producers get top marks on many all-time-great-comedies lists—or, by any stretch, his most serious. (Would that be The Elephant Man?) But just as well as any of the others, it tosses open a window in the stale-aired house of living and beckons in a welcome draft. And nearly 70 years of work on screens and stages leave an impossibility in denying that Brooks has always had something to say: Humans are cruel, kind, absurd, deep. Our condition is fatal and, so, best to consider it and to laugh as we do. He’s spoken up in ways consistent, unexpected, offensive. A common refrain when discussing the older stuff: “You could never make that movie now.” Probably not. But this is Mel Brooks, and he’s never been here to ensure our comfort.

What does Brooks have to say now?

And how does he say it? The answers are, regrettably, over at Hulu, where Part 2 is streaming in four chunks. Because this is not a movie/series review, we’ll leave the interpretations up to you, reader.

Normally, we’d tell you this interview has been edited for clarity and concision. But that ain’t what happened. Brooks noted that he is busy, less than four months shy of his 97th birthday, and said he’d answer some questions via email. Here they are, in full. (Jeff Proctor)

What was the reception like—publicly and privately—to History of the World Part 1 or, for that matter, Blazing Saddles or Spaceballs? Obviously there was not a ‘cancel culture,’ whatever that means, in those days, but were people offended by those films and, if so, were you aware of it?

Reviewers don’t often like my movies when they first come out, but when they review my next movie they suddenly think it was not up to the greatness of my previous movie…you know, the one they knocked at the time.

These many years later, what is your opinion of those films?

Very simply, I think they were terrific—but that’s only my opinion.

What made you decide, in your mid-90s, to revisit laughter and thought through the lens of history?

That’s a very good question! COVID and the pandemic put us all on house arrest, and after a while I really began to miss the joy of making people laugh. Laughter gets us through a lot of hard times, and history is a wonderful subject matter for my style of satire. Almost all of my comedies have a kind of serious historical theme running beneath the laughter. For instance in Blazing Saddles it’s racial prejudice, in Silent Movie it’s corporate greed vs. art, and in both The Producers and Life Stinks it’s money vs. love.

What sort of reaction do you expect History of the World Part 2 to garner? Do you care?

Do I care? Actually, I care a lot! I hope everyone who sees the new series loves it. I’ve gotten tons of letters through the years from fans of History of The World Part 1 asking me, ‘Where and when are we gonna get Part 2?!’ So I am finally delivering a Part 2!

Are we getting Hitler on Ice and/or Jews in Space?

I think a lot of people would say it wouldn’t be a Mel Brooks historical comedy without at least one reference to good old Adolf…but you’ll just have to wait and see!

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY CELEBRATION

New Mexico State Capitol

490 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 986-4589

Honoring the state’s female trailblazers with comments from the governor and live entertainment.

1:30-3:30 pm, free

OPEN MIC COMEDY

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Wayward Comedy welcomes you to the stage weekly.

8-10 pm, free

SING ALONG WITH TEACHER B

Railyard Park Community Room

701 Callejon St.

(505) 316-3596

Queen Bee Music Association invites kids up to age 5 to jam.

10 am, free

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

This week’s storytime theme is "blossoms and blooms."

10:30-11:30 am, free

FILM

CASABLANCA

Violet Crown Cinema

1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

Between us, SFR would have gone with Laszlo too.

7 pm, $10-$13

REEL ROCK 17

Violet Crown Cinema

1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

Three short adventure docs about climbing ascents in Pakistan, France and Palestine.

6:30 pm, $13-$15

SWOON: FEARLESS

(SCREENING AND Q&A)

CONTAINER

1226 Flagman Way (505) 995-0012

Frederic King's doc about artist Swoon, followed by a virtual discussion with the director.

5:30 pm, $15

MUSIC

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave.

(505) 988-9232

Tonight, you make the music.

(In collaboration with the club’s highly talented resident jazz fanatics, that is.)

6 pm, free

JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road

(505) 982-1931

Acoustic storytelling songs.

8-10:30 pm, free

NOCTURNAL PLANET

Altar Spirits

545 Camino de la Familia

(505) 916-8596

Vinyl spinning from trance supplier Maxim Trotter.

8-11 pm, free

TROY BROWNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St.

(505) 982-2565

Dextrous Americana.

4-6 pm, free

WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOLK

Second Street Brewery

2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068

Levi Dean and the Mesa Rats.

6-9 pm, free

WORKSHOP

SOLDIER SONGS AND VOICES

The Candyman Strings & Things

851 St Michael's Drive (505) 983-5906

Vets explore songwriting as post-conflict care.

5-7 pm, free

THU/9

BOOKS/LECTURES

LISBETH CORT: ARTIST TALK

El Zaguán

545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016

The local creator discusses her chromatic collages.

3 pm, free

EVENTS

BEATS ANTIQUE NIGHT 2

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

House of Tarot belly dances to Beats Antique’s electronic mashups.

8 pm, $25-$40

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery

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

Learn how whiskey is made— from grain to glass.

5 pm, $20

OPEN MIC POETRY AND MUSIC

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Be a modern-day bard.

8 pm, free

PAJAMA STORYTIME

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Cozy storytime with parenting experts for families with children ages 5 and under.

6:30-7:30 pm, free

PRIDE AFTER 5 El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Bond with fellow LGBTQ+ folks over fancy cock- or mocktails. See what we did there?

5:30-7 pm, free

SEEDS & SPROUTS

Santa Fe Children’s Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

It’s time for worm bins and garbage gardens! One of our favorite times, honestly. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

10:30-11:30 am, free

FILM

CINEMA + CONVERSATION:

BORN IN FLAMES

Center For Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338

Lizzie Borden's dystopian story of intersectional feminism, followed by a discussion.

6 pm, $15

FOOD

CAYMUS WINE DINNER

Terra Restaurant

198 NM-592 (505) 946-5800

Four courses with wine pairings from Wagner Family Wines.

6-9:30 pm, $150

SUSHI POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

The eel here is so fresh, y’all.

5-7 pm, free

MUSIC

ALEX MURZYN QUARTET

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Saxophonist Murzyn and his collaborators hold court.

6 pm, free

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana and honky-tonk.

4-6 pm, free

BOB MAUS

Eldorado Hotel and Spa

309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455

Blues and soul.

6-9 pm, free

DAVID GEIST

Osteria D'Assisi

58 S Federal Place (505) 986-5858

A smorgasbord of familiar tunes for voice and piano.

7-10 pm, $5

FOLK MUSIC KARAOKE

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Queen Bee Music Association provides song books and a live band.

7-9 pm, free

GARRY BLACKCHILD

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Indie Americana.

7 pm, free

REPURPOSED VIBE

Altar Spirits

545 Camino de la Familia (505) 916-8596

Hummable classic tunes.

8-11 pm, $5 suggested

TAKE ME TO THE RIVER: NOLA LIVE!

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Pack a Bowl

Chef Randy Tapia’s Poki Tako drops knowledge from the CHOMP food hall

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Ask the fine folks at Ohori’s and they’ll tell you how your old pal Alex spends an inordinate amount of time in and around the CHOMP food hall within the Luna cluster of businesses at 505 Cerrillos Road. I’m taking interviews there and meeting buds, picking up coffee for the house and downing shots in the dark like it’s my job. And yet, I’ve had complicated feelings about CHOMP since it opened in 2020, most of which boil down to the three or four times someone has parked so close to me I literally couldn’t get in my car.

Anyway, this piece isn’t about CHOMP per se—it’s about chef Randy Tapia and his burgeoning Poki Tako brick and mortar eatery within the food hall’s hallowed grounds. Nestled in the corner, across the room from Pedro’s Pizza and just beyond Nath’s Inspired Khmer Cuisine and quick Indian spot Zaika, you’ll find Tapia’s newish offering, open since last year. It’s a small affair with some minimal cooking and refrigeration elements, a rice cooker like you might use at home and, most notably, Tapia himself, dreads, tattoos and

all. If I asked anyone who ever worked in foodservice to close their eyes and imagine a chef, this is likely the dude they’d envision, and he’s exactly who you want slingin’ poke and other fish items. Oh, did I forget to mention it? Poki Tako is a near-flawless and creative take on fresh Asian fare and, for my money, is currently the single best reason to visit CHOMP.

Let’s go back a few nights to the first evening I visited Poki Tako. Tapia’s food has been on my list for a hot minute: He’s a Santa Fe guy with a lifetime of restaurant experience under his belt, and if there’s one story I love, it’s hometown chef does good. But I always seemed to just miss service or find myself in CHOMP sans-hunger. When I finally did make and execute a plan, however, I was a little disappointed to find Tapia was not in on the night I visited. Don’t get me wrong—the woman who served me was friendly and moved quickly, and she made the heck out of the items I took home (more on that in a sec), but sometimes you just want to see what the king can do.

Rolling with the punches, I selected the special, a fish sandwich served on a bun with an Asian style slaw, avocado and jalapeño ($17), plus seasoned fries that looked like they’d only be OK but wound up being quite tasty. I simply had no choice but to also order the tempura fish and chips ($17), which came with a side of the aforementioned slaw and chips, plus sides of tempura and togarashi aioli (if you didn’t know, togarashi is a sort of chili pepper melange that hails from Japan and is famous for giving just the right amount of bite). At Poki Tako, the right

amount of bite seems to be the name of the game, and though the fish sandwich was a generous serving with avocado as close to perfect as I think I’ve ever tasted, the real winner was the fish and chips. Whoever you are, nice lady working at Poki Tako, the crisp of the exterior and the blazing hot and tender rockfish interior were as sublime a marriage as I’ve ever encountered—and I’ve lived in England, so...

Not quite sated, I woke the following morning with visions of Tapia’s poke bowls dancing in my head. His concept is like a meshed combo of Asian- and Mexican-inspired cuisines operating as one, and much of that idea comes from the kick and spice of most dishes. Still, not wanting to go heavy (or spicy), I opted for the citrus salmon poke bowl ($17), a clean-sounding bit of sushi-grade fish served atop warm rice with generous portions of pickled cucumber, daikon, carrot, edamame and a wasabi tabiko massago roe (that’s flying fish, y’all). First things first: The value is out of

control, and Tapia provides more food and garnish per bowl than seems reasonable for any business. Even better, the chilled salmon and warm rice created a sort of sticky combo of textures and flavors that picked up bits of the daikon and carrot for a complex series of flavor and mouthfeel changes, all taking place in a single bite. The included mini seaweed salad added just the right pinch of salty/savory, too— you know the way salt makes things taste so much more like themselves somehow?

This was a wise order, as I felt satisfied, but not over-full; which allowed me to order the Thai mango sticky rice dessert ($9). Another dish with generous portions, it came absolutely bursting with fresh mango chunks, plus a lemongrass coconut sauce that—and listen carefully—might be the most complementary rice and/or dessert topper I’ve ever discovered. Hats off to Tapia for that sauce for being subtly sweet and accentuating the more grounded flavor of sesame seeds sprinkled throughout. Welp, turns out I have a new favorite spot in town. Hallelujah.

Don’t forget that Tapia still takes the Poki Tako truck out every week, too, and to follow his social media accounts like Facebook (facebook.com/pokitako) and Instagram (@poki_tako) to see where that’ll be. Trust me, you want to find it.

POKI TAKO 505 Cerrillos Road, Ste. B101, (505) 913-7878

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questioning what we think is true, we keep living. If we get super solid, and it’s, ‘This is the truth! This is the answer!’ there’s no point anymore. But I hope I keep changing my mind. If I stop questioning myself, stop challenging myself, if I get too comfortable, it’s time to take to me out to the hills.

What I’m learning currently is...my default setting has been self-righteousness and figuring out the best mode of self-righteousness, but the challenging thing to do now is to stay in the space of, ‘I don’t know.’ In that space, I’m finding wonder, and I’m watching instead of dictating this reality. That space has been scary, because it’s vulnerable and I’m not in control—and it’s fun to be in control—but it’s probably the hardest thing I’ve done. When I do make it there, it’s absolute bliss.

In a recent interview with Vogue, you talk about how you come from 70 generations of clay artists. That’s a seriously long time. How do you quantify that, and how do you carve out your own space within so many generations? Do you even feel a need to do that?

Santa Fe and beyond, it seemed like a great time to catch up with Simpson and gain a little insight into the working mind of one of the more prolific and universally respected artists going today.

Oh, and did I mention she loves lowriders?

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

but it feels like we do need some of that really raw and rough humanity to have a little bit of compassion and empathic response to being human.

You’re a parent, too. Have legacy and ancestry taken on different meanings because of that?

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Within a sea of notable Native and New Mexican creators, Santa Clara Pueblo multimedia artist Rose B. Simpson has made a name for herself through a combination of gorgeous, empowering pieces, a family-born knack for clay and ceramics and an outspoken attitude that accentuates a growing need to let her guard down.

As time has gone by, Simpson says, her opinions on openness and sensitivity have evolved, leading her into a new period of vulnerability that not only challenges her as an artist, but as a person navigating the arts world as a New Mexican, a Native person and a parent.

Now, with a new show dubbed Road Less Traveled at New York City’s Jack Shainman Gallery, Simpson will also appear in an episode of the documentary series, Art in the Twenty-First Century on April 7 via PBS. With her growing notoriety, plus representation in New York City, San Francisco,

SFR: I wanted to start with legacy, because in your segment in Art in the Twenty-First Century, you talk about connection to ancestors; seeing their fingerprints on buildings and ruins, then making it a point of including your own fingerprints in your work. Is this concept of legacy an important one to you?

Rose B. Simpson: I think more of fingerprints representing the present. So, when we see fingerprints on the walls at an ancestral site, for example, that’s evidence of a very lived presence. I don’t see history. I see vibrance, I see life, I see a living experience. That’s basically why I’m invested in leaving the process visible in my work. I do it intentionally to make people aware of the process and the present experience.

I think in a time where we’re about fast products everywhere, we’ve built a world where we don’t want that human touch— we want this sterile, artificial, disconnected thing. OK, that’s not true for everyone,

I think that I’m more invested in a future than I used to be. I used to be kind of like, ‘Let it all burn!’ And now I’m like, ‘Woah, wait a minute!’ I’m fully aware of this feeling of love that…on a really enlightened day, I’m like, ‘There is no death!’ It’s all connected, and I don’t fear death, or transformation. But I also love this body, this life; I love this feeling of love and I think, ‘How cool would it be to survive in this form?’ I’m finding there’s a lot of power and strength in softness and staying vulnerable.

You talk about inherited historical trauma in the documentary, and then about how your work has showcased concepts of empowerment. Are feelings of empowerment still on your mind as you continue your practice or as you think about your place in the world being a parent? Is there ever a moment when you can dust off your hands and say, ‘I now feel empowered?’

I feel like if I ever have an answer to that, I’ve finished with life. As long as we keep

I used to think it was a big deal until I went and studied [ceramics] in Japan, and their clay history goes back to 1300 BC; so we’re actually a very young clay community. I think that really helped. Yes, mostly I think about the matrilineal line in that the mother actually makes the daughter’s eggs as she makes the daughter. I’ll make my grandchildren through my daughter; I was an egg inside my mom’s mom—my mother’s mother made me. It’s fascinating when you think about [my family’s] clay line because it’s similar to that direct line to ancestry, and it doesn’t go through the father’s side, whereas in Japan, that’s more of a...men mostly did the clay, historically. So there’s a reason I do clay, because my mom and her mom and her mom and her mom and her mom did it.

Right, and your mother, the legendary Roxanne Swentzell, appears in the documentary segment, and you both talk about collaboration, or ‘leapfrogging’ as your mom puts it. So maybe it’s less about your own specific thing and more about being part of something?

I think so, and sometimes I wonder who really is in charge, y’know? I thought that was cool on Art in the Twenty-First Century, that it was so family focused, because it really is. They followed me around for a long time, all over. They got to see all of my life, and I think a lot of it does revolve around family, and maybe I don’t realize that’s a thing until I have these other eyes on it and

A scene featuring Rose B. Simpson in her beloved El Camino, “Maria,” from an upcoming episode of the docu-series, Art in the Twenty-First Century. Simpson named the car after artist Maria Martinez.

Artist Rose B. Simpson enters her vulnerability era with bi-coastal shows and upcoming PBS doc appearance

people saying, ‘This is fascinating.’ But it’s just my normal, and I’m so family oriented—not, like, nuclear family, but community. I wouldn’t ever want to leave Santa Clara. It’s got its good and bad, but I’d never want to leave here. My managers on each coast are like, ‘Would you want to move somewhere more convenient for your career?’ And I say if I’m moving, I’m moving farther up the mountain here.

Speaking of, you say in the documentary that you’re ‘of here,’ but describe not always being comfortable in New Mexico. How does tension like that play into your practice?

If I’d figured out how to be at peace, if I’d found inner-peace, I don’t think I’d have made art. One time I considered moving to Hawaii because I had some good friends out there. I even sold my bed and was sleeping on the floor, ready to split. I thought about those ideas of Hawaii—and my friends are Indigenous Hawaiians who face challenges and historical trauma, I’m not saying it’s just been easy for them; but it’s so beautiful there, and I was thinking about what do you make when life’s just good? Where does your art practice go when you have a sense of comfort and ease? I didn’t move because I realized I’d only become part of the problem, even though I wanted to help…My physical presence in their homelands would...it wasn’t my battle, and I knew I had to start at home and clean my own backyard.

Let me tell you a story: I had a conversation with my daughter about icky feelings. She’s 6, and she was feeling like I don’t want to play with her, I don’t want to do the things she wants to do. So I asked her, ‘How does that make you feel?’ Eventually I was telling her how every morning, when I drop her off at school I feel fear—because we live in America and I don’t want my daughter to get shot. So instead of going to the story in my head, I’ve been like, ‘Time out, brain!’ I’m so great at building these horrible storylines about what could happen, but I ask myself, where is this in my body? Where is the physical experience of a feeling? If I go there and stay with it and watch it run its course, I almost can’t wait to see what these icky feelings are doing in my body and how they transform. I’ve spent my life trying to avoid those feelings, and it’s interesting to find intrigue or just be fascinated by that, to go searching for them and that becoming a habit, almost like a fun thing to do; to find where your feelings are in your body. Sometimes I’ll by lying in bed—I have insomnia—and I’ll be thinking about my day, all the thoughts and feelings, and I’ll find a really yummy awful one. And I say, ‘Let’s go

there; I felt like shit; that’s delicious; let’s see what’s there.’ Because there’s gotta be something cool to find. Maybe that makes me masochistic, but I feel true change from that process.

When you can channel that into the work, does it come with a sense of release?

When we talk about the practice itself, I feel like I’m more in a state of listening. I wait for it to come, it comes so fast, with so much. It’s almost like the difference between writing with a pen versus typing. When you’re thinking really fast, it’s easier to type, you get it out faster; but sometimes my art process is that I have some thing that needs to come through, but I’m stuck here with a pencil. And it slows down, you have time to think about it. I was laughing because I spent like nine months, 10 months working on this solo show I opened in New York last week, but then by December, I was kind of over that idea. I have a different idea, other projects—God forbid a project lasts over a year. It’s funny, if I do a proposal, by the time it goes through, that idea is old news.

You talk about challenging yourself, not taking the easy route. With that in mind, can you describe your current process and body of work? How much of it is an organic evolution versus a considered plan you’re attempting to execute?

I don’t know what you mean by plan in the big sense of things. I have a sketchbook, and because of the nature of my [clay] work, I have to engineer a bit. It takes forethought, I don’t want them to break. I have to think, is it gonna work, is it gonna be user friendly? They’re installing a piece of mine in Philadelphia today, for example, but I’m confident it’s going to be an easy install because I’ve thought this through. I spend a lot of time thinking about the engineering of something, especially the ceramics, because there are things I have to do to make sure they’re stable.

But plastics, acrylic paints, things like that feel icky to me, so I spend a lot of time experimenting with materials. For instance, I’m building a studio, and we ended up using concrete. It’s so interesting to me how concrete can be an art material for sculptural things.

Or I did a residency at the [Fabric Workshop and Museum] in Philadelphia, where you basically go and they say, ‘What do you want to try you’ve never tried before?’ They have this whole group of people who help you with everything, and they have these bins that...every artist who goes through a residency there, they follow them around and pick up the things you try that didn’t work, and they put it in this bin—and artists can look at any of those things. You can open the box and see the process. That opportunity, when you get stuck in a rut, it helps you to play and to see.

Let’s talk lowriders and muscle cars, because you’re famously into the artistry of such machines. How’s the car going? Is part of what draws you to cars that it’s an ongoing project?

I am working on a new car—me and my buddy, who I hire part time—a ’64 Buick Riviera with hydraulics. It’s funny, though, we hit the switches and the glass fell into the door, so I guess we’re at that stage where we need window regulators.

It’s so funny when people [present a car] as an art piece, and they’re like ‘Finished in 2014,’ because it’s always a work in progress, and it’s a lot of fun. I have a story about when I drove ‘Maria,’ my El Camino, to Tucson for a show. So, on the way back, I blew the engine right near San Felipe on the way out of Albuquerque, and I couldn’t get a tow because the engine was blown and the drive shaft wouldn’t spin. I had two buddies in the car, but we also couldn’t move it, and there were no rocks to throw behind the wheels to stabilize it, only pebbles. So I crawled underneath and disconnected the drive shaft and used it behind the wheel, but the fun part was sitting on my phone getting excited about the next engine to put in. We took the engine apart and that engine has been in all kinds of art pieces.

I dunno, I think I like cars because they’re a process, never done, never fully finished. I think I find solace in engineering. I think because my emotional state and my mind is so wild most of the time, the simplistic dependability, the way an engine works, is very satisfying to me. And I like to know how things wore. For example, I have a hybrid Jeep Wrangler, and I have no idea how that thing works. At one point there was some recall for something, and I took it to the dealership, but they couldn’t deal with it, so I got my buddy to hook up that machine, you know, where it does the car computer and tells you what’s wrong—and there was a Chrysler paywall to do it. I was like, ‘No bro, this is not my zombie apocalypse vehicle. It’s a nice dependable mom car.’ But I need to have my backup.

From Simpson’s Road Less Traveled, currently up at New York City’s Shainman Gallery.

COURTESY OF THE ARTIST, JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK AND JESSICA SILVERMAN, SAN FRANCISCO.

COCAINE BEAR

I Got a Monster Review

BY JULIE ANN GRIMM editor@sfreporter.com

“The criminal justice system is built to believe the words of officers, because if you don’t then that really erodes our belief in what’s right and what’s wrong,” defense attorney Ivan Bates, now the City of Baltimore state’s attorney, says into the camera.

What happens, then, when police officers routinely plant evidence and commit robbery to line their own pockets? You may have seen a dramatized version of the Gun Trace Task Force scandal on HBO’s We Own This City last year, based on reporting by the Baltimore Sun and largely from the perspective of federal investigators. Stream the new doc I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad, based on what journalists from an alt-weekly uncovered with victims at the center for more answers.

Long before Freddie Gray became a household name in 2015, journalists in Baltimore were working to uncover widespread corruption in the city police force. Stories about particular abuses by a unit

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When filmmakers find and jump rope with that razor-thin line that makes a movie steeped in violence and humor actually funny and intriguing— like the original Scream or Cabin in the Woods— audiences sometimes get an unexpected gem. When it comes to Cocaine Bear, however, from director Elizabeth Banks (whom you might know as a performer from Wet Hot American Summer, 30 Rock or Pitch Perfect), we instead get a barely-there idea extrapolated into a subpar pseudo drug thriller/comedy with some pretty big actors who seem kind of bored and maybe just did the film because it sounded cool to hang out and laugh at the idea of a stoned bear.

At its best, Cocaine Bear pays homage to ’80s slasher movies with stylized death scenes bordering on the absurd; but, like, with a bear. At its worst, it’s ridiculous, but not fun ridiculous so much as a painfully drawn out retelling of the same joke over and over.

In real life, it’s true that a bear in the Georgia woods happened upon a stash of cocaine dumped from a crashing plane by some cop turned drug runner. But whereas the real bear pretty much overdosed and died (and, for some reason, now exists in taxidermy form in a Kentucky mall), Banks’ new film asks us to consider the idea that the only thing this bear loves more than a big-ass pile of blow is killing.

Oh, sure, it’s mildly fun watching the bear

of plainclothes officers were particularly galling. With a special police unit, notes one attorney in the film, came “especially bad policing.”

Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg published a book in 2020 based partially on their reporting for the Baltimore City Paper, and although the documentary version rolls out nearly three years later, the reporting for both mediums occurred simultaneously. Woods serves as an energetic narrator, and director Kevin Casanova Abrams adds powerful storytelling.

An investigation by the US Attorney’s Office eventually resulted in federal prison sentences for police involved in the criminal activity. Yet, the people whose lives they affected with false reports aren’t neatly fixed with that outcome. Lasting, systemic change remains far from reach: DOJ is yet to wrap

go nuts in its pursuit of more coke, and Margo Martindale provides a few yuks as an inept park ranger. But throw in subdued performances from Ray Liotta (in his final role before his death, yikes) as a drug boss with ties to a Colombian cartel; O’Shea Jackson Jr. as his henchman; Alden Ehrenreich as his reluctant son; and Keri Russell as a mom trying to find her kid in the woods, and it just seems like a whole lot of filler that gets in the way of the bear chomping faces. Not even a very funny turn from Isiah Whitlock Jr. (BlacKkKlansman) can save this thing from its own abysmal pacing and pedestrian setup. Wait, is it possible they made this thing for tax purposes?

Anyway, Cocaine Bear already made more money than Ant-Man did this week, which is telling, and certainly some will have fun with its over-thetop tone. Still, those with a gore aversion need not apply here, and those who’ve cut their teeth on better examples of funny violent movies could probably rattle off a list of more enjoyable films (2010’s Piranha 3D, for example). If you’re killing time, Cocaine Bear does the trick, but one wonders how Banks made such a strange premise into one of the more tedious films of the year. (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, Regal, R, 95 min.

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA

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its investigation in Baltimore. Further, this story is playing out in other police agencies across the nation, with similar “special units” terrorizing people in other cities. Five officers in the Memphis Police Department’s SCORPION Unit, for example, are charged with murder after they beat Tyre Nichols to death during an arrest last month. Closer to home, the Justice Department forced the Albuquerque Police Department to dismantle its Repeat Offender Project team in 2015 after deep reporting on a legacy of violence by a local journalist.

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Directed by Kevin Casanova Abrams Amazon, Apple TV, NR, 91 min.

down as that critical mass moment when we collectively looked up at the screen and said something like, “Jesus, how many times can we watch the same fucking movie?!”

For some, that time has come and gone. For those who see the new Ant-Man—well, let’s just ask if you’re familiar with the reasons one might shoot an injured horse?

In Quantumania, we rejoin Scott Lang, aka AntMan (Paul Rudd, who is always likable, even in shit movies), and Hope Van Dyne, aka The Wasp (a painfully forgettable Evangeline Lilly), after the events of the last movie wherein...actually, wait; what happened in that movie? Anyway, they’re living normal-ish, post-Thanos lives when Scott’s daughter, Cassie (Kathryn Newton), unveils a science project she’s been working on. Wouldn’t you know it, though, the thing sucks everybody into the quantum realm— which is that subatomic world where Hope’s mom, Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer), found herself marooned for 30 years, according to the first film. It’s the same place her husband, Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), has theorized for decades while making his tech that makes things real big or real small and through which the Avengers time traveled or something a bunch of movies and shows ago.

It turns out Janet’s insistence she was alone for those 30 years is false. Heck, there’s a whole-ass civilization down there, and it’s presented in the most boring Star Wars-esque/vague technology/weird “aliens”/you’ve-seen-this-so-many-times-before fashion possible. This is where Scott and the gang learn Janet is responsible for some bad stuff and was subsequently part of some uprising against a despotic über-villain named Kang (Jonathan Majors, who is

about the only one to actually try acting in this movie). Under this guy, the quantum realm’s denizens are so oppressed it’s nuts, only we don’t super care because the movie doesn’t bother to make us care. Everybody runs someplace. Explosions explode. Someone says something about family being important.

Toss in some exhausting jokes about cultural differences, some pathetic lines about civil disobedience as presented by the Disney corporation and a whole lot of indiscernible CGI visual soup, and you’ve got yet another paint-by-numbers Marvel outing that proves they make too many of these things and release them too often—and Michael Peña, being the funniest parts of the other two, isn’t even in the damn thing. Wait a sec. Did he die in the last one? Sincerely can’t recall. Aw, who cares?

Rudd’s a national treasure, obviously, and will always be lovable for shirking a career as a dimensionless handsome dude for weirder roles and goofball movies. Majors, meanwhile, is one of the best actors currently going, even if his deep dive into Kang can’t save the overall movie. Pfeiffer and Douglas exist as expositional cyphers, meanwhile, and Newton’s turn as Scott’s daughter is...what do you call it when a character only exists so another one does something? There are cameos, too, and surprise characters; William Jackson Harper from The Good Place can grace our screens any time. Mainly, though, Ant-Man feels like a Marvel commercial, a tepid entry, the peak too-much-CGI turning point in a cinematic universe that comes at us too fast and too furious while refusing to break new ground. One recalls a time when we almost never got comic book movies. One now longs for that time. (ADV) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 125 min.

“Especially bad policing”

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8 Out ___ limb

10 Scoffing term used to criticize research of “softer sciences” (such as with the Nobel Prize in Economics)

11 Sacha Baron Cohen journalist

12 Burnt out

14 Millennial’s call to a Gen Z-er, maybe (which makes me feel ancient by now)

17 Math average

20 ___ admin

21 “How could you stoop ___?”

22 Late poet Baraka

23 Traditional New Orleans procession with band accompaniment

25 Toni Collette title character

28 Hush-hush

30 Actor McDiarmid

33 Heart song with that guitar hook

34 Gulf Coast airport luggage code

36 “Seascape” Pulitzer-winning playwright Edward

37 Maps out

39 Dashboard gauge

44 “Strawberry Wine” singer Carter and crooner’s daughter Martin, for two

47 Pet it’d make sense to call something like “Sir Meowington”

49 “May I interrupt?”

50 Smoke, fog, or mist

51 “King of the Hill” beer brand

53 Princess Jasmine’s tiger

54 “The Princess Bride” character Montoya

57 It’s not not unusual

59 Slurpee alternative 61 Polyunsaturated stuff 62 North Pole toymaker 63 Fish eggs 64 Mellow

PSYCHICS

Rob Brezsny Week of March 8th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Repressed feelings and dormant passions are rising to the surface. I bet they will soon be rattling your brain and illuminating your heart, unleashing a soothing turbulence of uncanny glee. Will you get crazy and wise enough to coax the Great Mystery into blessing you with an inspirational revelation or two? I believe you will. I hope you will! The more skillful you are at generating rowdy breakthroughs, the less likely you are to experience a breakdown. Be as unruly as you need to be to liberate the very best healings.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You finally have all you need to finish an incomplete mission or resolve a mess of unsettled karma. The courage and determination you couldn’t quite summon before are now fully available as you invoke a climax that will prepare the way for your awe-inspiring rebirth. Gaze into the future, dear Taurus, and scan for radiant beacons that will be your guides in the coming months. You have more help than you know, and now is the time to identify it and move toward it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Our sun is an average star in a galaxy of 100 billion stars. In comparison to some of its flamboyant compatriots, it’s mediocre. Over 860 light years away is a blue-white supergiant star called Rigel, which is twice as hot as our sun and 40,000 times brighter. The red supergiant Antares, over 600 light years away, has 12 times more mass. Yet if those two show-offs had human attitudes, they might be jealous of our star, which is the source of energy for a planet teeming with 8.7 million forms of life. I propose we make the sun your role model for now, Gemini. It’s an excellent time to glory in your unique strengths and to exuberantly avoid comparing yourself to anyone else.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The philosophical principle known as Occam’s razor asserts that when trying to understand a problem or enigma, we should favor the simplest explanation with the fewest assumptions. While that’s often a useful approach, I don’t recommend it in the coming weeks. For you, nuances and subtleties will abound in every situation. Mere simplicity is unlikely to lead to a valid understanding. You will be wise to relish the complications and thrive on the paradoxes. Try to see at least three sides of every story. Further tips: 1. Mysteries may be truer than mere facts. 2. If you’re willing to honor your confusion, the full, rich story will eventually emerge.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “There are no unsacred places,” wrote Leo poet Wendell Berry. “There are only sacred places and desecrated places.” Poet Allen Ginsberg agreed. “Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!” he wrote. “Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements! Holy the cafeteria! Holy the mysterious rivers of tears under the streets! Holy the sea, holy the desert, holy the railroad.” With Berry’s and Ginsberg’s prompts as your inspiration, and in accordance with current astrological imperatives, I invite you to invigorate your relationship with sacredness. If nothing is sacred for you, do what it takes to find and commune with sacred things, places, animals, humans, and phenomena. If you are already a lover of sacred wonders, give them extra love and care. To expand your thinking and tenderize your mood, give your adoration to these related themes: consecration, sublimity, veneration, devotion, reverence, awe, and splendor.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My favorite Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, wrote the following: “In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears.” I bring this meditation to your attention, Virgo, because I hope you will do it daily during the next two weeks. Now is an excellent time to cultivate an intense awareness of your feelings—to exult in their rich meanings, to value their spiritual power, to feel gratitude for educating and entertaining you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How might your life come into clearer focus when you uncover secrets that inspire your initiative and ingenuity? What happens when resources that had been inaccessible become available for your enjoyment and use? How will you respond if neglected truths spring into view and point the way toward improvements in your job situation? I suspect you will soon be able to tell me stories about all this good stuff.

PS: Don’t waste time feeling doubtful about whether the magic is real. Just welcome it and make it work for you!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s not the best time to tattoo a lover’s likeness on your abdomen. Maybe in May, but not now. On the other hand, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to see if your paramour might be willing to tattoo your name on their thigh. Similarly, this is a favorable period to investigate which of your allies would wake up at 5 am to drive you to the airport, and which of your acquaintances and friends would stop others from spreading malicious gossip about you, and which authorities would reward you if you spoke up with constructive critiques.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Redwoods are the tallest trees in the world. They may grow as high as 350 feet. Their roots are shallow, though, reaching down just six to 12 feet before spreading out 60 to 100 feet horizontally. And yet the trees are sturdy, rarely susceptible to being toppled by high winds and floods. What’s their secret? Their root systems are interwoven with those of other nearby redwoods. Together, they form networks of allies, supporting each other and literally sharing nutrients. I endorse this model for you to emulate in your efforts to create additional stability and security in your life, Sagittarius.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What’s the best way to be fulfilled? Hard work and discipline? Are we most likely to flourish if we indulge only moderately in life’s sweet pleasures and mostly focus on the difficult tasks that build our skills and clout? Or is it more accurate to say that 90 percent of success is just showing up: being patient and persistent as we carry out the small day-today sacrifices and devotions that incrementally make us indispensable? Mythologist Joseph Campbell described a third variation: to “follow our bliss.” We find out what activities give us the greatest joy and install those activities at the center of our lives. As a Capricorn, you are naturally skilled at the first two approaches. In the coming months, I encourage you to increase your proficiency at the third.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Mackerels are unusual fish in that they must keep swimming nonstop. If they don’t, they die. Do they ever sleep? Scientists haven’t found any evidence that they do. I bring them up now because many of you Aquarians have resemblances to mackerels—and I think it’s especially crucial that you not act like them in the coming weeks. I promise you that nothing bad will happen if you slow way down and indulge in prolonged periods of relaxing stillness. Just the opposite in fact: Your mental and physical health will thrive as you give your internal batteries time and space to recharge.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A financial advisor once told me I could adopt one of three approaches to running my business: 1. Ignore change; 2. always struggle with change, half-immobilized by mixed feelings about whether to change or stay pat; 3. learn to love and thrive on change. The advisor said that if I chose either of the first two options, I would always be forced to change by circumstances beyond my control. The third approach is ultimately the only one that works. Now is an excellent time for you Pisceans to commit yourself fully to number three—for both your business and your life.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Mercedes Carrillo, DECEASED.

No. 2023-0023 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 Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address:

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COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT CASE NO: D-101-CV-2023-00343

IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF SHERIDYN LOURDES HOUSTON NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the Provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner, Sheridyn Lourdes Houston will apply to the Honorable BRYAN BIEDSCHEID, District Court Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 4:00 pm on the 25th day of April, 2023 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from SHERIDYN LOURDES HOUSTON to SHERIDYN LOURDES GONZALES. KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT CASE NO: D-101-CV-2023-00408

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NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the Provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner, Sarvasmarana Ma Nithya will apply to the Honorable MATTHEW J WILSON, District Court Judge of the First Judicial District at the Sa nta Fe Steve Herrera Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 2:15 pm on the 13th day of April, 2023 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from SARVASMARANA MA NITHYA to AVA AMOR.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT CASE NO: D-101-CV-2023-00294

IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF CHASTY HOPE AGUILAR NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the Provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40 8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner, Chasty Hope Aguilar will apply to the Honorable KATHLEEN McGARRY ELLENWOOD, District Court Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Steve Herrera

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COURT CASE NO: D-101-CV-2022-00355 IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF BRITTNEY ANNE WEED NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the Provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40 8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner, Brittney Anne Weed will apply to the Honorable BRYAN BIEDSCHEID, District Court Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Steve Herrera Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 4:10 am on the 25th day of April, 2023 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from BRITTNEY ANNE WEED to SAGE SUMMERS.

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A-1 Self Storage New Mexico Auction Ad Notice of Public Sale Pursuant to NEW MEXICO STATUTES – 48-111-48-11-9: Notice is hereby given that on the 23rd day of March, 2023 At that time open Bids will be accepted, and the Entirety of the Following Storage Units will be sold to satisfy storage liens claimed by A-1 Self Storage. The terms at the time of the sales will be Cash only,

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT CASE NO: D-101-CV-2023-00400

IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF DANIEL MICHAEL WOLFF, A MINOR CHILD. NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE

NOTICE that in accordance with the Provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner, Suzane Wolff will apply to the Honorable Francis J. Mathew, District Court Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, remotely via google meet at 10:00 am, on the 28th day of March, 2023 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME of the child from DANIEL MICHAEL WOLFF to DANIEL MICHAEL MIJANGOS WOLFF

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk

BY: MARINA SISNEROS

Deputy

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