Santa Fe Reporter, May 10, 2023

OPINION 5

NEWS

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

CHARTER TOUR 9

Commission recommends rewriting the powers of the mayor and voters in Santa Fe’s charter STRETCH FOR THE DOORS 10

Santa Fe Community Yoga aims to help inmates cope with life inside and out of prison

COVER STORY 12

ON THE STRUGGLE BUS

Plans to fix Santa Fe’s broken bus system appear to be going nowhere

CULTURE

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THE CALENDAR 18

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MUSEUM STUDIES

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FOOD 33

BBQ IMPORT

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MOVIES 35

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NEWS, MAY 3: “CLUSTER-SNUCK”

BEST-LAID PLOTS?

Apparently, Area 1B’s residents’ legitimate and legal effort to join the Agua Fría Traditional Historic Community has inadvertently upset some secret plans the city has with Homewise.

To be clear, as was stated repeatedly throughout the May 1 meeting by Area 1B residents, no one is advocating for “one unit per acre” as [Chief Executive Officer Mike] Loftin is quoted. And his insinuation that there is something nefarious about Commissioner Hansen being responsive to her constituents is absurd. Commissioner [Anna] Hansen is our elected representative.

The county released the communications Mr. Loftin demanded expediently. We have requested records of communications between The city, Mayor [Alan] Webber, certain city councilors, city Land Use and Homewise and its shell LLC companies regarding Area 1B—and have heard nothing.

We sincerely hope the Santa Fe Reporter and all local media will continue to investigate this story.

SID MONROE AREA 1B RESIDENT

QUAD-CAN’T

Years ago the city tried to sell the Northwest Quadrant, and just recently it tried to develop it, and both times because of the broken terrain it was going to be too expensive to develop. The land that Homewise owns in Area 1B has the same terrain, plus it is landlocked.

The Agua Fría Village Association asked Homewise if they could be our fiscal agent for an affordable housing project and they declined. Little did we know the mayor was conspiring with them to do a development in secret.

Millennials like the Reporter, but the image portrayed by the paper of the affordable housing program since 2016 is false. They are being taken advantage of, giving testimonials of the AH need, then the city delivers 185 units out of 6,126 since 2019. All anyone ever sees is a smiling mayor and nothing gets done for the people.

WILLIAM MEE AGUA FRIA

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MARK RONCHETTI’S FORTHCOMING PODCAST HITS THE NEWS BEFORE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Who, precisely, are the Ronchettis going to sue for this “leak?”

VICE REPORTEDLY HEADED FOR BANKRUPTCY

From what source are we supposed to see snippy YouTube

FILM UNION WRITERS STRIKE ONGOING

We need a deal to save us from more reality TV.

NETFLIX TO FILM SPORTS MOVIE REZ BALL IN NEW MEXICO

Good thing someone wrote this thing before the strike, huh?

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS TO REOPEN CINEMA THIS WEEK WITH “Hmmmmm,” says entire city.

CHARTER COMMISSION PUNTS ON PROPOSAL TO BOLSTER URBAN FARMING

We care about the environment in Santa Fe, sure, but we don’t want to actually get our hands dirty.

PRINCE CHARLES IS NOW KING CHARLES

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CITY COUNCIL SHUFFLE

Renee Villarreal won’t run to keep her District 1 seat, but backs new candidate Alma Castro.

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Charter Tour

BY ANDREW OXFORD oxford@sfreporter.com

Santa Fe’s Charter Review Commission, the volunteer board tasked with proposing changes to how the city is governed, will deliver several proposals to the mayor and City Council on May 10 that include changing the powers of the mayor and a measure to make it easier for voters to put their own ideas on the ballot, among others.

The governing body will ultimately decide which, if any, of the commission’s ideas should go to voters for approval in November’s election.

But in wrapping up the once-a-decade charter review process, commissioners punted on a few proposals, quashing a push to bolster urban farming and demurring on the idea of making the job of city councilors a fulltime gig.

And the months-long process concluded with the commission receiving relatively little input from local residents, leading to calls for the city to give more power and resources to future charter commissions.

Here are a few of the commission’s recommendations:

Commission recommends rewriting the powers of the mayor and voters in Santa Fe’s charter

who was the only nonmember to regularly speak at commission meetings. “The city didn’t really make it clear this was happening.”

So, among the commission’s recommendations is a proposal that the charter give future commissions more time and resources to engage with the community.

The commission proposes the city set up future commissions at least 15 months before the next election, provide it a webpage and require the group hold at least two meetings in each council district.

The recommendations of future commissions would also go on the ballot unless rejected by a supermajority of the City Council, making it harder for the city’s governing body to quash proposals from the group.

“The process itself had certain drawbacks—not enough time, not enough public-facing outreach, not enough ways to encourage public participation,” Peter Ives, a commissioner from District 2 and former city councilor, said during the group’s final meeting May 8. “This was an effort to try and ensure that there was adequate time for any ensuing commission to do the work that it needs to do.”

The commission also recommended the city lower the number of petition signatures needed for voters to put a proposed law on the ballot, or repeal an unpopular law through a referendum.

Under the current charter, ballot measure backers would need to get signatures from voters equal to 33.3% of the number of people who voted in the last mayoral election. The commission proposed lowering that requirement to 15%.

DEMOCRACY

It was not until the last few weeks that City Hall began publicizing commission meetings and set up a webpage where local residents could submit their ideas.

Until that point, the commission—a nine-member body with one member appointed by each city councilor and the mayor—had received just a handful of comments from the public.

“The composition of the charter commission is professional and impressive in the breadth of experience they have and unfortunately, the public never really got to see that,” says Adam Johnson, executive director of the Old Santa Fe Association,

MAYOR AND COUNCIL

Recommendations also include recasting the role of the mayor.

The last charter review commission reshaped the role of Santa Fe’s mayor,

proposing the job be full time and recommending the mayor get a vote on all matters before the council—ideas approved by voters in 2014.

But the changes have blurred some of the lines between the mayor and council. In setting up the current charter commission, the mayor and council asked the commission to consider whether their roles should be better defined.

This commission proposed the mayor only get a tie-breaking vote on matters before the council. The mayor would also get the power to veto legislation approved by the council, though the council could override vetoes with a supermajority vote.

Instead of serving in both a legislative and executive capacity, the mayor’s role would be characterized under the commission’s proposal as that of a “political leader, public convener, and head of city government.”

Though the council also tasked the commission with considering whether councilors should be full time, the commission recommended that the job of councilors remain part time. But the commission recommended the city assign one staff person to each councilor—a move the body says would not require changing the city charter.

limits public participation.

With the council handling such matters as “quasi-judicial,” councilors say they can’t respond to constituent questions and local residents who want to engage in the process don’t have the same role as other parties, like developers and city staff.

The commission recommended an amendment to the charter that would require the city to adopt procedures for ensuring “procedural due process of law and fundamental fairness” to members of the community participating in those proceedings.

EQUITY AND INCLUSION

A new Human Rights Commission and Office of Equity and Inclusion to examine equity and inequity in city government is another commission recommendation.

While the commission received comments from relatively few local residents, suggestions from the public led to at least one of the commission’s proposals.

Johnson and others raised concerns that the city’s process for handling land use cases—which have included acrimonious rezoning debates in recent years—

FOOD AND HUNGER

Still, commissioners curbed one of the most ambitious proposals the group considered, which would have made it a goal of the city to eradicate hunger and would have tasked city officials with supporting urban farming to help meet that goal.

For all of Santa Fe’s green credentials, the city’s codes don’t particularly accommodate urban agriculture.

And after District 1 Councilor Signe Lindell raised concerns at a recent commission hearing about the potential impacts of encouraging more urban farming, the body voted not to recommend changing the charter to address the issue.

That was a disappointment to John Paul Granillo, a commissioner from District 3 who helps run a farm just outside city limits.

Granillo said the commission should have not have carved out time to hear from city councilors before the group finished its work—and particularly when it had heard from so few other local residents.

“I think the charter commission this year, it already had its agendas pre-set,” says Granillo.

Instead of putting a section on hunger and urban farming into the charter, the commission recommended the city council forward the issue to a proposed Human Rights Commission.

Stretch for the Doors

Santa Fe Community Yoga aims to help inmates cope with life inside and out of prison

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

Lots of places and situations can make it hard to practice mindfulness and find inner peace, but being locked up behind bars arguably tops the list. A Santa Fe yoga studio aims to make it a little easier and to help inmates after serving their time.

Santa Fe Community Yoga, a nonprofit organization with a Midtown studio, has breathed life back into a dormant program guiding incarcerated people through basic yoga practices and techniques with the help of one of its newest board members. After suggesting the idea of bringing meditative stretching inside prisons, newly transplanted Phoenix Savage was unable to find an available and willing teacher, so she found herself driving the two hours each way to Springer Correctional Center three times a week.

Savage tells SFR on her way to kick off the third week of the eight-week-long program that the classes meet one of the yoga center’s goals to connect with people beyond its four

walls. Inmates are among groups of people whom she believes could use that outreach the most. But, she says, the sessions are not what she calls “woo-woo yoga.”

“Each class is designed to assist the women in basically learning how to take self control, and I think that’s something we can all learn as human beings,” Savage says. “Being able to do that as someone who is incarcer ated is more significant because in reality, if you’re incarcerated, your body is a prod uct or you’re under the ownership of the government.”

She says she has seen some of her family go in and out of the system, but that her motivation to spend hours teaching nearly two dozen incarcerated women comes from her own life experience as a woman of African descent.

“For me personally, as a human being, it’s about offering someone an avenue to have that autonomy of mind, body and spirit,” she says.

Brittany Goede, the non profit’s board president, says the group’s late founder Michael Hopp started a yoga in prisons program more than 20 years ago, but it fell by the wayside when it became in creasingly difficult to find teachers for the “really quite challenging work.” Things changed when Savage moved to Santa Fe from Mississippi in August 2022.

“We’re so thankful that she had so much energy and dedication to really make it happen,” Goede says. “It was really a full-throated endorsement from the board and the staff restarting this program.”

A Department of Corrections spokeswoman tells SFR the department entered

into a contract with the yoga center for about $10,000 to cover teacher compensation, travel and trauma-informed yoga training. But, Goede says, the nonprofit took a funding hit during the worst of COVID-19 and the organization needs to

offer this type of service in every facility in the state.”

Springer has been one of the more unstable prisons in the New Mexico Department of Corrections system. The state closed what was known as the New Mexico Boys’ School, a juvenile lockup, in 2006, then reopened it as a low level prison for adult men in 2007. It transitioned to a women’s prison in October 2016.

It now serves as what Education Program Manager Ashley Bass calls a “release facility” with a population that is “within five years to the door.” Bass says education programs in general provide “hard skills” such as a trade or vocation, but also “soft skills” to cope with past trauma or the stress of making a life outside the prison’s walls. She tells SFR the latter are “just as important” to avoid recidivism.

“By having the mindfulness to know how to breathe and work your way through a situation that this yoga program is going to bring to our population is super beneficial for them when they release,” Bass says.

Savage says she hopes to do her part to cut down on recidivism by giving the women in her classes not only coping skills but a path to use yoga on the outside. For example, she’s working with yoga studios in Albuquerque to establish a scholarship to pay for teaching certification courses for a woman set for release soon.

bolster its revenue in order to support and expand its outreach programs.

“We’re going to be measuring success in tandem with the [Corrections] Department and see whether they want to continue expanding it,” Goede says. “I would hope that we’d be able to work with the department to

“That’s something that she can then do on her own; have a small, independent business.” Savage says. “I mean, you can do yoga in the park, you don’t need a fancy studio to do yoga.”

Bass says the prison is already assessing a new group of women to attend another round of classes starting in July.

Phoenix Savage took on the role of prison yoga teacher after she pitched bringing the program back.

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Riding public transit in Santa Fe can mean waiting for a bus that never shows up.

That’s what happened to Brenda Tenorio the other week.

The Southside resident waited patiently on a bench in the parking lot outside Santa Fe Place Mall to catch a ride but was unaware—until a driver told her—that the route she needed to take wasn’t running on a regular schedule.

“I missed my appointment,” she tells SFR, as she waited for another bus Monday morning.

PLANS TO FIX SANTA FE’S BROKEN BUS SYSTEM APPEAR TO

On the Struggle Bus

It’s easy to understand how she missed her ride. Santa Fe Trails, the city’s bus service, has not posted any information at the mall “transit hub”—or any other major bus stops around town—about route schedules or cancellations. There aren’t even maps to tell riders where the city’s buses travel. Signs on the city’s bus stops direct riders to a website, TakeTheTrails.com. But it is just

If you manage to find a bus schedule, the picture is pretty bleak: Five of the city’s 10 bus routes are no longer running regular service but instead have transitioned to

That means there is no regular Santa Fe Trails bus service to some of the city’s biggest employers and institutions, such as Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, Santa Fe Community College, Museum Hill, the Institute for American Indian Arts or St. John’s College.

“They need to get the routes back up, more often and later,” Tenorio says, arguing the city should run buses more frequently and later into the evening, otherwise riders are simply stranded.

To be sure, the COVID-19 pandemic upended public transit systems around the world. Timetables built around the finely tuned rhythms of commuters fell apart as many began working from home and schools closed. Tourism slowed and many transit systems cut back to providing only basic service while transit workers faced deadly risks on the job.

A regional bus system in Northern New

Mexico and the Rail Runner both cut back service, but Santa Fe was supposed to have a plan.

Just last year, Mayor Alan Webber and the City Council adopted a multimodal transition plan—the result of thousands of surveys as well as extensive study by outside consultants.

The plan called for a series of changes to Santa Fe’s bus system, some ambitious but others long overdue.

In the short term, those plans included restoring regular service on two routes to better serve the Midtown and South Capitol neighborhoods; extending service on Saturdays across the city; and improving the bus system’s website and bus stops to provide riders with better information.

To date, the city has not completed a single one of those goals.

Meanwhile, the Transit Advisory Board— the appointed group meant to oversee Santa Fe’s bus system—has not met in years.

“I don’t think the bus service is as good as it needs to be but I don’t think it’s not important,” says Mayor Alan Webber, who worked extensively on transit issues before he was elected to lead the city in 2018.

Webber tells SFR the city has been hamstrung in implementing its new plan due to a a vacancy in the leadership of Santa Fe Trails.

City officials also cite staffing among the transit system’s rank-and-file. Public Works Director Regina Wheeler told councilors at a budget hearing last month that 30 of about 50 bus driver positions are unfilled.

“We’re down to our core crew of people,” Thomas Martinez, director of operations and maintenance for Santa Fe Trails, said at the same hearing.

But the union representing drivers says the city simply isn’t paying as much as bus operators with commercial drivers licenses can earn elsewhere. And the city isn’t offering the sort of incentives touted by Albuquerque,

T hey need to get the routes back up, more often and later.

-Brenda Tenorio, Santa Fe Trails passenger

which is advertising bonuses of up to $2,500 for new drivers.

The mayor and council approved a multimodal transition plan last year that sets a long list of goals for the city’s bus system.

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• Return Route 5 and Route 6 with Streamlined Route 6

• Expand Saturday service

• Restore the Historic District Shuttle

• Drop the first Route 2 weekday run

• Establish new bus stops as needed for revised new routes

• Continue bus stop improvement program

• Obtain app-based software

• Implement Southwest and Museum Hill Microtransit Services

• Revise Santa Fe Ride application and travel training programs, review dispatching and service costs

• Implement marketing and public information improvements

• Continue development of the Southside Transit Hub

• Implement improvements to the Downtown Transit Center

• Conduct a study for location and programming of Midtown Transit Hub

• Conduct a study of Transit Signal Priority on the Cerrillos Road corridor

• Purchase 12 paratransit vehicles and 3 cutaway vehicles

• Implement revisions to Routes 1 and 4 to serve Midtown

• Add service to the airport by modifying Route 26

• Continue bus stop improvement program

• Continue marketing/public information program

• Open Southside Transit Hub and shift routes

• Depending on rate of development, implement Tierra Contenta and Las Soleras Service

• Conduct a study to expand microtransit service, based on implemented services

• Develop funding and detailed engineering plans for implementation of Transit Signal Priority

• Prepare plans for Midtown Transit Hub and obtain funding

• Purchase 8 heavy duty buses

• Implement Transit Signal Priority

• Construct Midtown Transit Hub

• Continue bus stop improvement program

• Continue marketing/public information program

• Purchase 1 heavy duty bus

• Continue bus stop improvement program

• Continue marketing/public information program

Still, the city needs more residents and visitors alike to ride the bus.

Transportation remains the single biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Santa Fe, according to a report from city officials on 2021 data.

The same report said encouraging public transportation and improving infrastructure to make the city more walkable and bikeable have some of the greatest potential for reducing the city’s greenhouse gas emissions.

While more zero-emission electric vehicles are hitting the road, including

in some city departments, they won’t unsnarl Santa Fe traffic or help local residents who are too young or too old to drive. Meanwhile, the cost of owning a vehicle continues to increase and the share of households behind on auto loans has risen.

Riding the city’s buses this spring, this writer has seen glimmers of a Santa Fe that isn’t so easily dismissed as one only navigable by car. Yes, there have been times I’ve had a bus stop all to myself at rush hour. But I’ve also ridden buses crowded with students headed to class and helped tourists navigate a bus system that can still get them to much of what they want to see.

For many, a walkable, bikeable, transit-oriented Santa Fe already exists—because it has to.

Some pending improvements could make Santa Fe’s bus system a more enticing alternative for residents and visi-

tors alike. The city is moving ahead with designs for renovating the currently neglected and unaccommodating downtown transit center on Sheridan Street. City officials also have plans to build a transit hub on the Southside at Cerrillos Road and Camino Entrada.

A yawning gap remains between the role that city officials have assigned to public transportation in helping create a cleaner, more equitable Santa Fe and the bus network, which provides poor service to swathes of the community that most need it, while doing little to entice new riders.

Santa Fe’s transit system is relatively young given the age of the city.

Created only in 1991 when voters approved a gross receipts tax to fund it, buses didn’t start rolling until 1992. Today, it’s

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an enterprise fund within the city’s budget, which means it’s meant to pay for itself. While the system receives gross receipts tax revenue, it also receives substantial federal funding. And while other cities have scrapped transit fares altogether, Santa Fe is still charging a buck a ride—though students and veterans ride free and other discounts are available. Santa Fe Trails has never been a money maker for the city, though, and was never meant to be.

Some of the same problems that plagued the rollout of the system, still confound it today.

Some city officials argued in the early 1990s that the system concentrated service on the north end of town while neglecting the south side. That’s an issue still reflected in recent rider surveys and in mounds of economic data that show the highest concentrations of people who rely on public transit are in Midtown and on the Southside, where residents often face longer walks to bus stops and limited service.

Even though regular service has been suspended on half of Santa Fe’s bus routes, city officials argue the system that has replaced it

is actually a pretty good deal.

Known as on-demand service, it works like this: Instead of going to a bus stop at a time listed on a bus schedule, you go to the bus stop and dial a phone number to ask a bus pick you up.

“On-demand is actually more accessible,” Martinez, the head of Santa Fe Trails, told councilors during a hearing last month.

This type of system works on riders’ schedules, he argued.

And Webber says this kind of service offers a glimpse at the future of public transit, one focused on the mobility of individual passengers rather than just bus routes.

“We need to focus on providing mobility, rather than only seeing our challenge as better bus service,” Webber says.

The system has also required riders to spend a lot of time waiting for a ride on sometimes empty buses. And the city’s multimodal transition plan notes that this service relies on riders having a phone, which some don’t.

Transit experts also say there’s a big limitation to this type of system. By its nature, on-demand service can only serve a fraction of the riders that could be served by a

bus route running on regularly scheduled intervals.

Many bus systems have moved to this sort of “demand response” service, allowing transit agencies to reach riders in areas where there might not be enough passengers to justify running buses on a fixed schedule.

“Demand response is just another way of getting more service into more places,” says Jarrett Walker, a consultant to public transit agencies who authors the blog HumanTransit.org.

Walker tells SFR that this kind of service has “extremely low maximum productivity,” adding later, “it cannot handle more than five, six, seven people per hour.”

In fact, there’s a sort of paradox to this service.

If the city truly encouraged more people to ride the bus, the system could be overwhelmed by too many calls for service.

So, it works “as long as everyone involved is clear that this only works because not many people are using it,” Walker says.

The multimodal transition plan approved last year calls for replacing regular bus service entirely with a sort of on-demand service

in the Museum Hill and community college areas in the future and extending an on-demand bus service to the airport.

Yet the plan doesn’t entirely dismiss the idea of regular bus service. It calls for: more frequent bus service on routes 24 and 26, which serve the Southside, including the future teen center and Presbyterian’s new facility off Cerrillos Road; increasing the frequency of service on some routes during Saturday as well as extending the hours on several routes to 10 pm.; and restoring regular schedules along route 5 and an amended route 6, which would ensure there’s bus regular to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, the state capitol and along Rodeo Road.

The shortage of drivers has extended to the city’s paratransit service, Santa Fe Ride, which provides a door-to-door taxi-like service for people with disabilities.

It can be a lifeline, but over the years she has used it, Mary McGinnis has seen the service change. Rides aren’t available as late in the evening as they once were. And passengers should arrange trips well in advance, she says.

“Drivers are working so much overtime,” says McGinnis, who previously served on the city’s Transit Advisory Board.

The drivers who remain are competent and helpful, she says, but there aren’t enough of them

“We’ve adjusted to it because what else can we do?” McGinnis says.

Getting more buses on regular routes will take more drivers, however.

The union representing city employees— including bus drivers—says officials haven’t made transit a priority, a point they argue is reflected in the pay the city offers new hires.

Wages on job postings for bus drivers range from a high end of about $24 an hour to as little as $15 an hour.

“These are skilled workers,” says Louis Demella, vice president of AFSCME Local

A Route 4 Santa Fe Trails bus turns from Rodeo Road on to Camino Carlos Rey during the morning rush hour on Monday. The route—which serves the Genoveva Chavez Community Center, Higher Education Center and Santa Fe High—runs only about one bus an hour.

On the Struggle Bus

3999. “If they don’t want to work for the City of Santa Fe at $18 an hour, they can go get a job today as a trucker at $27 an hour.”

The city’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year calls for a 3% raise for employees earning less than $100,000 per year, but Demella argues that doesn’t keep up with inflation.

And while the city has handed out incentives such as recruitment stipends to police officers, it hasn’t extended similar deals to entice more bus drivers even as other cities in New Mexico offer perks to attract new employees to their transit systems. Some are even considering how to provide housing for drivers to work in some of the state’s more expensive resort communities where bus service is key to service workers who sometimes face long commutes.

To Demella, this says city leaders just don’t care about bus service or the people who depend on it.

“This is not just limited to our transit division. This is impacting services across the city of Santa Fe. If they don’t impact people that Alan Webber considers his constituency, they get left to the wayside,” Demella says.

Several city bus routes stream through the transit center on Sheridan Street, along with buses from other transit services, yet

not a single timetable or map anywhere at the station tells riders when buses are arriving or where those buses are going.

The downtown transit center sits in the heart of the city’s tourist district, wedged between popular museums and just a block from the Plaza, but first-time riders interested in hopping on a bus are on their own in figuring it out. Those turning to Google or Apple Maps may end up waiting a long time— the information on those apps is out of date and doesn’t reflect cuts in bus service over the last few years. The city provides up-todate information on the app RouteShout, but it can be slow and less intuitive. Moreover, the city doesn’t advertise this app at its bus stops. (Webber says the city is working on improving the Santa Fe Trails website. )

The lack of information provided by the bus system was one of the most common complaints among riders surveyed as part of the city’s multimodal transition plan (other top complaints included infrequent bus service and the poor condition of bus stops).

The only nod to informing riders at the transit hub comes from the North Central Regional Transit District, which runs several intercity bus routes with stops around Santa Fe—including at Sheridan Street.

The district has installed a tablet-sized computer display at its bus stop there, tell-

ing riders in real time about the schedules of buses arriving at the hub.

It’s all part of an effort to make the district’s bus routes a more attractive alternative to driving while also better serving longtime riders.

“If your riders can’t get where they want to go when they want to get there, they’re not going to ride your service,” says Anthony Mortillaro, executive director of the NCRTD.

The district, like Santa Fe, has cut back its routes over the last few years and Mortillaro says hiring remains a struggle.

But the district has also seen some routes come bouncing back from the lows of the pandemic, too. For example, it has increased the frequency on the route from Santa Fe to Eldorado.

And the district runs a bus service from South Capitol Station through downtown up to Ski Santa Fe. During this last snowy winter, that route saw ridership surpass pre-pandemic levels at times, a reminder that even amid the car culture of Northern New Mexico, plenty of people are still looking for alternatives to driving—at least for some trips.

Passengers riding the full route save themselves an 18-mile drive each way and cut down on congestion along a road that can be tricky driving in the winter.

The district has some big plans, too.

On a recent visit and tour of its new maintenance facility in Española, Mortillaro outlines plans to electrify the system’s bus fleet. That will start next year with buses serving outlying communities, like Taos, where the district has been working on deals with local electric coops to get a decent price on energy.

Santa Fe’s multimodal transition plan dismisses the idea of electrifying the city’s bus fleet, ruling that it’s too expensive at this point. And Santa Fe’s buses already operate entirely on compressed natural gas—which, while still a fossil fuel, leads to fewer emissions from the fleet’s tailpipes. Still, city officials say the buses are meant to last about 14 years and about a half-dozen buses in the fleet are just past that age.

The Biden administration has prioritized pumping money into transit systems that want to electrify their fleets.

Mortillaro says now is the time to move.

“If you’re not out there applying to these programs, you’re going to miss out,” he says.

Meanwhile, the district’s long-term plan calls for running buses as frequently as every 15 minutes between Santa Fe and Española.

Walking around the district’s shiny new maintenance facility and glancing at the buses refashioned with sleek new livery provides an alternative view of how transit’s recovery from the pandemic might have played out for Santa Fe.

The district started operating in 2007, with gross receipts tax revenue from across Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Rio Arriba and Taos counties that fund rural and intercity transit services and help the state pay for the New Mexico Rail Runner Express trains.

In the ensuing 15 years, the district has gone on to take over the bus services in Taos and Española as well as stretch routes out to Farmington, Mora and Las Vegas. And the district provides some of the funding for Santa Fe’s city bus service.

About five years ago, the city and the district studied the possibility of the NCRTD taking over Santa Fe’s bus service altogether. Negotiations fell apart amid a host of unresolved questions about whether each side would really be better off. And some city councilors say Santa Fe is still best served by having its own bus system, with the responsiveness and flexibility that can come with that.

But if you’ve ever tried to figure out what time a bus might arrive at your bus stop, you may not be so sure.

Mortillaro adds that the district has a good working relationship with Santa Fe Trails. But he argues the district benefits from being able to focus on one thing—transit—rather than running a host of other services, the way a city does.

“I think it still is worth revisiting,” he says.

Anthony Mortillaro, executive director of the North Central Regional Transit District, at the district’s garage in Española.

ANDREW OXFORD

New Mexico Museum of Art expands to the Santa Fe Railyard District with an additional space for contemporary art, creating new avenues to make art available to everyone.

HIGH ANXIETY

There’s so much to say about the Center for Contemporary reopening, but nowhere near enough space. So, beyond extolling the ability to run your fingers over those velvet walls again—or the chance to hear cinema head honcho Paul Barnes address the returning audience—let’s stick to what’s screening: Vertigo features Alfred Hitchcock’s most compelling use of color and his Freudian undertones at their most overt. But looking past the onscreen doubling that drives the plot, Vertigo has become even more haunting as parallels to the director’s own obsessions with his icy blonde stars bubble to the surface. Don’t take that as a reason to avoid the film—instead, see it as an additional layer in its disturbing exploration of identity. (Siena Sofia Bergt)

CCA Closer Look Series: Vertigo

6 pm Thursday, May 11. $15

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 216-0672

ART OPENING SAT/13

RINGMASTER

Truthfully, we no longer totally buy the idea that outsider art is made by folks unsullied by establishment conventions. In the age of the internet, such firm distinctions feel a little iffy. But we can get behind art that’s simply driven by childlike delight, and that’s exactly what the circus-centric paintings and found object pieces in Tim Weldon’s new exhibit A Trip to the Fun House provide. Digging into the crumb-covered joy of childhood memorabilia, Weldon’s work captures both the excitement and nebulous grunginess of the carnival. And with contemporary-focused gallery Calliope’s co-owner Michael Lancaster’s personal connection as great-grandson of big top pioneer Charles Ringling, a satisfying spectacle seems guaranteed for all. (SSB)

Tim Weldon: A Trip to the Fun House: 4-6:30 pm Saturday, May 13. Free. Calliope 2876 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 660-9169

MOTHERS’S DAY SUN/14

SUNDAY MUMDAY

We know Mother’s Day is a nonsense holiday concocted to sell cards, but bear with us. This is Santa Fe. You can ditch the schmaltzy purple platitudes and still celebrate the matriarchs and femme mentors in your life. Why not treat ‘em to one of four specialty menus—at Rio Chama Steakhouse, Terra Restaurant, Bishop’s Lodge and Palace Prime—cooked up for the occasion? Follow that up with arts-based bonding over a downtown tour from the History Museum or a Flamenco concert at Teatro Paraguas, then make a tangible keepsake at the suncatcher workshop from TLC Stained Glass. Too stuffy? Just head straight for the royalty at Jean Cocteau’s drag brunch. Go where thou wilt. (SSB)

Mother’s Day in Santa Fe: All day Sunday, May 14 Various times, locations and costs.

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Trailblazers

First-ever Studio Arts MFA class at the Institute of American Indian Arts graduates with Beyond Mastery dual exhibit

Though the idea sparked into the world sometime well before the pandemic, it wasn’t until 2021 that the Institute of American Indian Arts was able to kick off its first-ever Studio Arts MFA program. Now, as its inaugural cohort prepares to graduate, a pair of exhibitions at Turner Carroll offshoot CONTAINER and The Coe Center aim to show the world what they’ve got.

Part of the slow trudge to success for the Master of Fine Arts was the reality of the world during COVID; part of it was, according to Director of MFA in Studio Arts Mario Caro (Colombian Mestizo), assembling the type of professional artist mentors for the program who could strike envy into the hearts of any other arts students out there— artists such as Dakota Mace (Diné), Raven Chacon (Diné), Heidi K. Brandow (Diné and Kanaka Maoli), Ashley Holland (Cherokee Nation) and Charlene Teters (Spokane) among others.

“It was meant to be like a low residency,” Caro tells SFR. “The main part is that folks can remain in their communities, wherever they may be. A lot of our students are Native and moving away from home can be a disruptive thing, but this way they can still remain and they can still have mentors while they have other commitments.”

The first student cohort makes an impression. Take Joseph Seymour Jr. (Squaxin Island/Acoma Pueblo), whose focus on language regeneration through artistic pursuits

highlights both a need and a movement. Or take Angelica Garcia, whose digital prints and video looping pay homage to family, roots and the women who came before. There are seven more artists where they came from, and the works proved so big that not one space could contain them all.

A graduating class’s show would normally be exhibited at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Caro explains, but “they plan out years ahead and that didn’t work out, and it was CONTAINER’s Tonya Turner Carroll who is the hero to immediately offer her space. Our artists... also developed large scale installations, and there was no way CONTAINER could contain all of them, so The Coe Center said we could use the project warehouse space— now we’re converting this raw warehouse into an exhibition space, and it’s working out very well.”

For those keeping score, that’s nine artists across two locations and a whole mess of phenomenal mentors. That makes Beyond Mastery sound beyond excellent. All that’s left is for the rest of us to check it out.

(Alex De Vore)

BEYOND MASTERY

4 pm Friday, May 12. Free. The Coe Center 1590 Pacheco St., (505) 983-6372

6 pm Friday, May 12. Free. CONTAINER 1226 Flagman Way, (505) 995-0012

ART OPENING FRI/12

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ONGOING

ART

ALYSE RONAYNE: LONG LIVE smoke the moon

616 1/2 Canyon Road smokethemoon.com

An abstract multimedia show encompassing everything from wool works and steel sculptures to a site-specific installation.

Noon-4 pm, Weds-Sun, free

ART AS INQUIRY

Vital Spaces Midtown Annex St. Michael’s Drive vitalspaces.org

SciArt Santa Fe presents a group show of artists experimenting with scientific techniques and media—including multiple moldbased pieces. Closes Monday.

1-5 pm, Fri-Sat, free

BILL BAKER: COLOR CULTURE

Acosta Strong Fine Art

640 Canyon Road (505) 453-1825

Pastel images of Indigenous people.

11-5 am, Mon-Sat, free BRICOLAGE UNBRIDLED!

CONSTRUCTING ARTIFACTS

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915

Kevin Watson shares his multimedia scavenged pieces.

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

CALL TO ARTISTS

Online, whollyrags.org

Submit pieces made of repurposed materials to the 23rd annual Arte de Descartes XXIII juried recycled art show by Aug. 1.

2400 Central Ave., Los Alamos (505) 662-8250

A retrospective of the painter’s forays into ideas of lineage and inheritance

10 am-8 pm, Mon-Thurs;

10 am-6 pm, Fri;

10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

THE CONTEMPORARY PRINT

Zane Bennett Contemporary

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8111

A group show highlighting various printing techniques, including monotypes, intaglio and more.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

DANIEL BLAGG: URBAN LANDSCAPES

Aurelia Gallery 414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915

Uncanny paintings of American urban decay subtly reminiscent of Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World.”

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

DANIEL RAMOS: THE LAND OF ILLUSTRIOUS MEN

Foto Forum Santa Fe

1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582

Black-and-white photographs exploring the iconography of Mexican Americana.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Fri;

12:30-5 pm, Tues, free

DECONSTRUCTING BEAUTY AND URBAN ABSTRACTS

Edition ONE Gallery

728 Canyon Road (505) 570-5385

Textural photographic experiments from Nathalie Seaver and Dolores Lusitana.

11 am-5 pm, Weds-Mon, free

ENCHANTMENT SHOW: THE JOURNEY 2023

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators shares selected recent works from its New Mexico and El Paso branch members.

10 am-8 pm, Tues-Thurs;

10 am-6 pm, Fri-Sat., free

FLORA & FAUNA

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

A group exhibition exploring greenery, growth and regeneration.

10 am-5 pm, free

GOING WITH THE FLOW SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Southwestern artists grapple with the central role of water in desert landscapes.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat-Mon;

10 am-7 pm, Fri, free INTO THE WILD

Keep Contemporary

142 Lincoln Ave., (505) 557-9574

Multimedia surreal explorations of wilderness from Chris Haas, Kristen Egan and Jared AntonioJusto Trujillo.

11 am-5 pm, Weds-Sat; Noon-5 pm, Sun, free

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5. Gallery

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

No, the office cat didn’t just walk across our keyboard: that truly is this sculptural exhibition’s exact title.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sat, free

JODI BALSAMO

Counter Culture Café

930 Baca St., (505) 995-1105

Selected mixed media still lifes.

8 am-3 pm, free

KEL BRANDWOOD: THE FORGOTTEN GODS

Prism Arts & Other Fine Things

1300 Luisa St., Ste. 3A, (248) 763-9642

Layered abstract expressionism.

11 am-5 pm, Weds-Sat, free

KEVIN BELTRAN: UNOBSERVABLE NOISE

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

Colorful, Americana-infused vehicular photography inspired by sound.

7:30 am-5 pm, free

L SCOOTER MORRIS: THE TIPPING POINT

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915

Mixed media canvas and acrylic-based pieces incorporating images of guns, flags and money.

11-5 am, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free LINDSEY REDDICK: I CRIED IN FRONT OF YOU form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Ceramic sculptures probing familial bonds through folk imagery and delicate pastel glazing.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

MARCOS LUCERO: GUARDIANS OF THE SOUL

Hecho Gallery

129 W Palace Ave (505) 455-6882

Paintings on paper inspired by the communities of coastal Oaxaca, featuring imagery of animal spirits and masked figures.

10 am-5 pm, Weds-Sun, free

MEMORIA: ART AS RECORD Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road (505) 424-2300

A multimedia showcase of the Institute of the American Indian Arts’ 2023 graduating BFA class’s capstone projects, ranging from traditional to conceptual.

10 am-4 pm, Mon-Fri, free

MINIPRINT! Hecho a Mano 830 Canyon Road (505) 916-1341

A selection of more than 50 diminutive prints juried by Alfonso Barrera and Mirel Fraga. Originally presented as part of April’s Print Santa Fe festivities.

10 am-5 pm, Weds-Sun, free

Marilyn reincarnated in a flurry of carnations in Andrea Peterson’s “Sacred Heart.” On view in Epoch Floral, opening this week at Blue Rain Gallery.

MOKHA LAGET: PERCEPTUALISM CONTAINER

1226 Flagman Way (505) 995-0012

The American University Museum’s exhibition of geometric paintings pays a visit.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, free

MONOTHON EXHIBITION

Santa Fe Community Gallery

201 W. Marcy St. (505) 955-6707

Showcasing one work per participating artist from Monothon Print Week.

10 am-3 pm, Weds-Fri; free

NOURISHING BEAUTY

Cafe Pasqual’s Gallery

103 E Water St., Second Floor (505) 983-9340

Gail Reiki, Bonnie Lynch and Romig Streeter share multimedia pieces inspired by the art and culture of Japan.

10 am-5 pm, free

OUR PLACE: TOM AND RAVENNA OSGOOD

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

A daughter and her late father connect across psychic space through assemblage, sculpture, design objects and more.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

PAINT OUT EXHIBITION

Jemez Fine Art Gallery

17346 NM-4, Jemez Springs (575) 829-3340

Showcasing pieces created during the week of plein air painting in late April.

11 am-4 pm, Fri-Sun, free

THE PHOTOGRAVURE:

SELECTIONS FROM

1897-2023

Obscura Gallery

1405 Paseo de Peralta (505) 577-6708

Over a century of copper plate intaglio prints, from Alfred Stieglitz to Eddie Soloway.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

PIÑON COUNTRY

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

A photographic installation by Christina M. Selby documenting piñon-juniper woods and their endangered avian inhabitants.

9 am-5 pm, free

POST FIESTA WARES

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

Rick Phelps’ recycled paper art, presented in conjunction with the Museum of International Folk Art’s cartonería exhibit.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sun, free

SANTA FE 5X5

Zane Bennett Contemporary 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8111

Selected works from five up-and-coming printmakers.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

SIGNE STUART: EVOLUTION

Pie Projects

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

Sewn and stained canvasses evoking the quantum world.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

SIGUE PASANDO POR AQUÍ

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Enrique Figueredo’s 15-foot zoetrope and woodcut prints examining migration and movement.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

SOLARE:

LETTING IN THE LIGHT

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery

222 Delgado St., (928) 308-0319

Iconographically influenced wooden sculptures, digital prints and beyond.

11 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat, free

SPECTRA: THE RAINBOW IN ART

ELECTRA Gallery

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

A showcase of paintings, jewelry and more utilizing rainbow imagery.

By appointment, free

SPRING BREAK:

GROUP EXHIBITION

Charlotte Jackson Fine Art

554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688

Abstract works exploring color, growth and budding.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free SPRING GROUP SHOW

Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art

558 Canyon Road, (505) 992-0711

Highlighting abstract works by eight gallery artists.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

THE TAOS SIX COLLECTION: AN HOMAGE TO W. HERBERT DUNTON Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Gallery artists “paint tribute” to the Taos Society of Artists founding member by reinterpreting his pieces.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri;

9 am-5 pm, Sat, free

T.N.

Java Joe’s (Siler) 1248 Siler Road, (505) 780-5477 Colorful, geometric acrylic abstracts.

7 am-1 pm, Mon-Sat, free

TOWARD FIGURATION: TOM APPELQUIST

FOMA

333 Montezuma Ave. (505) 660-0121

Abstract pieces with line work that nods towards Keith Haring.

11 am-5 pm, free

TULU BAYAR: CHIMERA

Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403

The Turkish American artist shares pieces straddling the boundaries of photography, sculpture, video and more.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

TWO PIONEERING WOMEN

PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE PHOTO LEAGUE

Monroe Gallery of Photography

112 Don Gaspar Ave. (505) 992-0800

Featuring the black-and-white work of Sonia Handelman Meyer and Ida Wyman.

10 am-5 pm, free

THE CALENDAR

EVENTS

SANTA FE BIKE MONTH

Santa Fe, bikesantafe.org

Celebrate the wheel-centric month with social rides, restaurant discounts for those who arrive on bicycles and more.  free

FILM

OPEN SUBMISSION: MADRID FILM FESTIVAL

Online, madridfilmfest.org

Submit shorts by July 28 for festival screening and possible prizes.  All Day, free

WED/10

BOOKS/LECTURES

BOOK DISCUSSION FOR ASIAN PACIFIC HERITAGE

MONTH

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Gather to chat about Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, a novel spanning four generations of Korean diasporic experience.

6-7:30 pm, free

SAR ONLINE COLLOQUIUM: PENSKE MCCORMACK Online, bit.ly/417yT8U

The Anne Ray Intern discusses their work curating the online exhibition Legacies of Care.

1:30-2:30 pm, free

EVENTS

BIKEPACKING EVENT BY SANTA FE FAT TIRE SOCIETY

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

The evening kicks off with a mixer and bikepacking rig prep tips, then the transitions to a mini-fest of bike related films.

5 pm, $13

CELEBRATE MOTHER’S DAY AND MAKE HISTORY OF YOUR OWN

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200

The museum suggests you treat mom to a docent-led walking tour of downtown.

10:15 am, $15-$25

FREE KIDS SING-ALONG

Railyard Park

740 Cerrillos Road

(505) 316-3596

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

10:30-11:15 am, free GEEKS WHO DRINK

Second Street Brewery (Railyard)

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278

A quiz incorporating audio and visual clues.

8-10 pm, free HISTORY CHAT

35 Degrees North

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

Christian Saiia gathers locals to discuss history and colonization.  Noon-2 pm, free

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You might call musician Michael Garfield a bit of a philosopher-scientist. He’s the first to admit he likes to use $50 words; he’s got a degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Kansas; he likes to talk and dissect and collaborate and intellectualize; he likes to go deep. Garfield comes to Santa Fe by way of Colorado, Texas and California and recently wrapped a 4.5-year stint at Santa Fe Institue where he, among other jobs, hosted the Complexity Podcast And while he came close to going into academia, Garfield ultimately pursued the more creative world of performance and podcasts. In Garfield’s Future Fossils show, he talks about anything and everything from the metaphysical and psychedelics to dinosaurs, sci-fi, human nature and beyond. And that last little tenet makes up much of the connective tissue of the upcoming Tumbleroot Music Lab (7 pm Friday, May 12. Free, but donations welcome. Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 303-3808), a combination improv night/semi-planned open mic that finds Garfield shepherding a group of musicians, painters and dancers through spur-of-the-moment performances. There is no specific directive, but Music Lab is, according to Garfield, meant to both enliven the night and find some semblance of social and musical reciprocity in a post-COVID world. Get to know him a little better with this-here interview, which has been edited for length and clarity. (Alex

De Vore)

How does one phase from science to the performing arts as you have?

Well, right now I am what my buddy calls ‘funemployed.’ But really, I don’t know. Basically what happened is I got preoccupied with very, very deep kind of profound cosmic questions and the very last year of undergrad, I realized I couldn’t ask those questions in any program that I could find. And after years of trying to find a way to continue as an academic, I basically gave up and moved

to Boulder, Colorado, and started writing for a music blog and working as a sound engineer; playing concerts around town and painting at concerts. I didn’t know what else to do, and I was just sort of, like, scraping my income together. And that became a career touring as an artist and musician and public speaker at music festivals. And that led to me hosting the Future Fossils podcast.

Academia is structured in a way that you’re not going to be able to pursue [certain questions] until you’re a tenured professor because at that point, they let you kind of do what you want—and even then you’re gonna come up against resistance because everything is hyperspecialized. I just got fed up with a world in which I wasn’t allowed to think freely and pursue the things that seem...to matter most. So I sabotaged my career in a different way, and went ahead and did something that I thought would be at least nourishing to my spirit.

As a musician, what are your thoughts on writing versus improvisation? Is there a balance that you’ve struck between them or that you’re hoping to achieve? I would like them to be more wellbalanced, but I’m still sorting that out. Most of the shows I’ve played in the last 15 years were fully improvised. But I continued writing songs and producing songs in the studio, because there’s something about polishing an idea over a very long time and embellishing it and getting it dialed in and getting it just right. And that satisfies a completely different part of me. As an artist, the serendipity and surprise and magic that happens when you’re just throwing stuff together on the fly, though, right? It’s like cooking, right? You can work with a really, really careful, old, refined recipe with a procedure and list of ingredients—or you can just, like, do jazz in the kitchen and... throw stuff together, whatever it happens to be. I love them both.

Tell us about Music Lab. What can we expect and how can we get involved with potential future things?

It’s based on this thing I used to do in Austin, Texas, called Looper’s Night where you bring together a bunch of people that are used to playing alone. You synchronize all of their equipment and everybody gets a little solo showcase...to let people know...it’s like a like a cheese plate: You can taste this thing by itself, and then you can combine it with a bunch of different stuff and explore what all the different flavors are at the intersections of everybody. And, oh, you can find me... on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook—I’m called Michael Garfield. Email me at michaelgarfield@gmail.com.

with Musician Michael Garfield ALEX DE VORE

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Bring your instrument and come play your evening away with the pros.

7 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Thrice-weekly instructor-led bike rides, with the option to borrow a set of wheels if yours have goathead-related flat tires. Free for members of the City of Santa Fe recreation centers.

10-11 am, $5

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: OTHELLO

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

Giles Terera (Hamilton), Rosy McEwean (The Alienist) and Paul Hilton (The Inheritance) take on Shakespeare's tragedy, and we've got a bit of a thing for Iago. We just feel like we can fix him!

7 pm, $19-$22

OPEN MIC COMEDY

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Wayward Comedy welcomes you to the stage weekly. If you’re looking to try out comedy, you might as well dive into the deep end and try to crack up the experts.

8 pm, free

POTTERY DEMONSTRATION: TRADITION AND INNOVATION

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

710 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1269

Erik Fender (San Ildefonso

Pueblo) shares the pottery techniques passed on to him by his mother and grandmother.

1 pm, free

SANTA FE MEET-UP GROUP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

A singles party for folks in their 40s, 50s and 60s with an optional open mic involved.

Hosted by Julie Ferman, Santa Fe Matchmaking and the Santa Fe Social Meet-up Group.

6 pm, free

TOUR THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION

New Mexico Governor's Mansion

One Mansion Drive (505) 476-2800

Enjoy a docent-led tour of all that fine art and fancy furniture filling the halls at the governor's digs.

Noon, free

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

This week's storytime and activity theme is "winter numbers," which we gather will involve some sort of a dice-based game and building winter shelters from blocks.

10:30-11:30 am, free

WRITER'S DEN

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

A weekly communal space to write to the sound of others' clicking keyboards. Maybe the pressure of having other literary folks around will motivate you.

5-6:30 pm, free

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

For late(r) night chile needs.

4-10 pm, free

COOKING MATTERS:

EASY EATS

Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center

4801 Beckner Road (505) 772-1234

Part of a six-session series on preparing healthy food on a budget.

2-3 pm, free

MUSIC

RANDY MULKEY

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Local singer-songwriter.

4-6 pm, free

RUMELIA COLLECTIVE

Odd Fellows Hall

1125 Cerrillos Road (505) 690-4165

Balkan music and dance.

7-10 pm, $10

SECOND CHANCES

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952

Country meant for twirlin' to.  6 pm, free

WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOLKS

Second Street Brewery

(Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Acoustic tunes from Jonivan Jones.

6-9 pm, free

WORKSHOP

AERIAL FABRIC WITH LISA

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Build core strength while mocking gravity.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

THU/11

DANCE

ECSTATIC DANCE

Railyard Performance Center

1611 Paseo de Peralta

EmbodyDance hosts a DJ'd free movement sesh. Contact hello@embodydancesantafe.com for more information.

6:30 pm, $15

EVENTS

BOOK SALE + EARLY BIRD SALE

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon (505) 466-7323

Innumerable books, CDs and DVDs, carefully organized by expert hands. Most items run between $1 and $3 each. If you really mean business, pay the extra dough for first pick at 9 am. 10 am-6 pm, free-$25

CELEBRATE MOTHER’S DAY AND MAKE HISTORY OF YOUR OWN

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200

We know it’s a historical tour, but now we’re wondering what would count as mother-themed downtown tour destinations. For some reason we’re thinking crepes?

10:15 am, $15-$25

DIA DE LAS MADRES

Southwestern College

3960 San Felipe Road (877) 471-5756

Food, music and activities in honor of mothers in particular and caregivers as a whole.

4:30-7 pm, free

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery

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

Follow your whiskey’s circuitous route from the aging barrels to your bloodstream.

3 pm, 5 pm, $20

FREE AURA PHOTOS

Dragonfly Transformations

129 W San Francisco St., Ste. E (505) 652-7633

Human atmospheres like having their picture taken, too. And while you're waiting, check out the paintings by Erin Fore.

5-7 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952

Don't call it trivia.

7 pm, free

HUMAN DESIGN READINGS

Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health

909 Early St., (505) 699-2771

Richard Corbett gives weekly body graph readings.

3-6 pm, $60

PRIDE AFTER 5

Susan's Fine Wine and Spirits

632 Agua Fria St., (505) 205-3909

The NM Out Business Alliance hosts a queer networking evening.

5:30-7 pm, free

SFCC RESPIRATORY CARE

THERAPY PROGRAM

INFO SESSION

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

One in a series of such sessions for those curious about helping others breathe better.  Noon-2 pm, free

SECOND THURSDAY

SOCIAL RIDE

Santa Fe Railyard Water Tower 1612 Alcaldesa St.

A recurring bike ride, ending with a raffle at a different brewery each session.  7 pm, free

SEEDS & SPROUTS

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

Little ones snack on garden harvestables while crafting food art.  10:30-11:30 am, free

FILM

ARMAGEDDON

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

OK, technically they’re two separate screenings, but this is part of a semi-official double feature of space debris-based disaster movies alongside Deep Impact 8:30 pm, $13-$26

DEEP IMPACT

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

With a tagline like "Heaven and Earth are about to collide," you know you're in for a nice, secular time, apocalyptically speaking.  6 pm, $13-$26

EXPOSURE (SCREENING + Q&A) Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

Holly Morris shares her doc following a group of nonprofessional female explorers attempting to ski to the North Pole.  7 pm, $13-$15

VERTIGO (SCREENING AND DISCUSSION)

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 466-5528

Return to those beloved red seats with Hitchcock’s most personally revealing classic, presented by Paul Barnes. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 6 pm, $15

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Layered avian textures from Chris Roberts-Antieau’s “Pink Is The New It,” part of Saturday’s Spring Sideshow event at Antieau Gallery.

ANTIEAU GALLERY

FOOD

FLIGHT NIGHT

Santa Fe Spirits

Downtown Tasting Room

308 Read St. (505) 780-5906

Sample four different miniature cocktails instead of a single large one.

3-10pm, free

SUSHI POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Oh, Brent Jung. Bless you for bringing us such miraculously fresh fish.

5-8 pm, free

MUSIC

ANNALISA EWALD

Agave Restaurant & Lounge

309 W San Francisco St. (505) 995-4530

Classical and baroque guitar.

6-9 pm, free

ALEX MURZYN QUINTET

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Sax-centric jazz.

7 pm, free

GLASS KEY TRIO

Honeymoon Brewery

907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139

Original folk songs with a tinge of noir.

8:30-11 pm, free

JEREMIAH GLAUSER

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Acoustic country.

4-6 pm, free

JOE WEST PRESENTS!

Santa Fe Brewing Company

35 Fire Place (505) 424-3333

This month's lineup of singer-songwriters includes Strangers from Afar, Felix "Gato" Peralta and many more.

6:30 pm, free

JOHNNY LLOYD

The Hollar

2849 NM Hwy 14, Madrid (505) 471-2841

Old school Americana.

12-2 pm, free

LA

BUENA ONDA

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

DJs Nalgona Superstar and Luz Skylarker spin cumbia, reggaetón and more to keep you dancing.

6-9 pm, free

METROPOLIS MAN

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

Roots rock.

7 pm, free

SOUNDSCAPES

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Find your latest fantasy series to the dulcet tones of Nacha Mendez.

5-6 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

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

Get close and personal with that famous Santa Fe sunset.

6:30 pm, $109-$129

THEATER SWEAT

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

Robyn Rikoon directs Lynn Nottage's drama about the deunionization of the Olstead factory in Pennsylvania.

7:30-9:30 pm, pay what you wish

SYMPATICO

The Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576

Sam Shepard's story of the dark side of horse racing—directed by Nicholas Ballas, who knew the beloved author from his Santa Fe days.

7:30 pm, $15-$35

WORKSHOP

BEGINNER FABRIC

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Can you hang? If not, this class will show you the metaphorical ropes.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

CLARIFYING MEDITATIVE

WORK

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

Forty minutes of quiet group meditation, followed by gentle discussion.

7-8:30 pm, free

HATHA YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Gentle yoga with a focus on breath work.

10:30-11:30 am, $18-$90

TRAPEZE AND LYRA CLASS

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Expand your aerial vocabulary on static trapeze and hoop.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

FRI/12

ART OPENINGS

ANDREA PETERSON: EPOCH FLORAL (OPENING)

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Americana-laced paintings of celebrities on blooming backgrounds.

5-7 pm, free

BE KIND TO YOUR MIND

Rainbow Rainbow at Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Mixed media works from the Life Link Clubhouse artists.

5 pm, free

BEYOND MASTERY

(OPENING #1)

Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts

1590 Pacheco St., (505) 983-6372

Thesis works from the first graduating class of Institute of American Indian Arts Studio Arts MFA students. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

4-6 pm, free

BEYOND MASTERY

(OPENING #2)

CONTAINER

1226 Flagman Way

(505) 995-0012

A continuation of the aforementioned inaugural exhibit. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

6-8 pm, free

ELEMENTS: SUSAN EDDINGS PÉREZ (OPENING)

Susan Eddings Pérez Galley

717 Canyon Road, (505) 477-4ART Layered abstracts studded with gold leaf.

6-8 pm, free

GRAND OPENING

Ventana Fine Art 403

403 Canyon Road, (505) 303 3999

Ventana Fine Art's new offshoot marks its debut with works from gallery painters and sculptors.

4-6 pm, free INHERENT MEMORY AND BEYOND REFLECTIONS (RECEPTION)

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900

A veritable banquet of Institute of American Indian Arts openings! This one showcases the work of mixed level Studio Arts BFA students.

5-7 pm, free

JACK CRAFT: WHAT ONCE WAS THE SEA IS NOW A DESERT

Kouri + Corrao Gallery

3213 Calle Marie, (505) 820-1888

Organic shapes in cast iron. Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free REID RICHARDSON: KINDRED SKIES

Globe Fine Art

727 Canyon Road, (505) 989-3888

Symbolist oil landscapes.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat; 11 am-5 pm, Sun, free INTO THE WOODS, IS PERPETUAL YOUTH (OPENING)

Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts

1590 Pacheco St., (505) 983-6372

High school students in the Hands-On Curatorial Program curate pieces from the collection made of organic materials.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

A CONVERSATION WITH POTTERY

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269

Rescheduled from March, Isleta and Diné artist Tara Gatewood discusses the relationship of pottery to communication.

1-2 pm, free

OPERALIVE!: ORFEO Collected Works

Bookstore and Coffeehouse

202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226

Conductor Oliver Prezant contextualizes the upcoming Santa Fe Opera season, one production at a time.

6 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SPRING

SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

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

7:30 pm, $25-$45

SLEEPING WOMAN

MOUNTAIN FLAMENCO CONCERT

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Compania Chuscales and Mina Fajardo present a performance inspired by Argos MacCallum's love poems.

7 pm, $20-$30

EVENTS

ALL AGES CHESS

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Go checkmate that king.

3-5 pm, free

BOOK SALE

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon (505) 466-7323

All the affordably priced books, CDs and DVDs a physical media hound could hope for.

10 am-6 pm, free

CELEBRATE MOTHER’S DAY AND MAKE HISTORY OF YOUR OWN

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200

What else do you think might qualify for that hypothetical mom tour? Chocolate + Cashmere?

10:15 am, $15-$25

CRASH KARAOKE

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

It may be true that nothing good happens after midnight, but the karaoke probably sounds better when you're a little bit delirious. Plus, how many places in Santa Fe host anything this late these days?

9 pm-1 am, free

DEMETRI MARTIN: THE JOKE MACHINE

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

Rescheduled from March, Martin at last brings his dry humor to the high desert.

7:30 pm, $35-$49

DISTILLERY TOUR

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

From grain to glass.

3 pm, 5 pm, $20

FINE ART FRIDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Kiddos create ornaments with help from Santa Clara Pueblo artist Melanie Paytiamo.

2-4 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

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

Yes, you could go on Monday or Wednesday, but our instincts say there’ll be more peoplewatching chances today.

10-11 am, $5

MINIATURES PAINTING

Beastly Books 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Gather weekly to paint table-top game figurines.

4-6:30 pm, free

NATIVE COMMUNITY FOOD DISTRIBUTION

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

Not only can Indigenous folks in need pick up food and other goods, the center is also offering Omicron boosters today.

10 am-noon, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Now that the buds have finished their business, you and the plants can turn a new leaf.

11 am-noon, free

THE STARGAZER

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St.

(844) 743-3759

Travel to the Galisteo Basin for ultimate low-light stargazing.

8:45 pm, $139

THE STATE OF THE FUTURE

Christ Church

1213 Don Gaspar Ave.

(505) 988-2652

Student activists from Girls Inc. of Santa Fe discuss forward-looking takeaways from the legislative session.

Moderated by DezBaa'.

5:30 pm, free

WELCOME TO THE MYCROVERSE!

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road

(505) 992-2588

A circus show in which evil atomic mushrooms serve as a metaphor for New Mexican nuclear colonialism.

7 pm, $10-$50

FILM

ARMAGEDDON

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave.

(505) 466-5528

Maybe follow up the double feature with an at-home rewatch of Dr. Strangelove to keep the fun nuclear apocalypse vibes going?

6 pm, $13-$26

DEEP IMPACT

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave.

(505) 466-5528

Don’t read into the ship being called the Messiah. It’s definitely not a Bible movie. Right?

9 pm, $13-$26

OPEN SCREEN V.3

No Name Cinema

2013 Pinon St., nonamecinema.org

Local experimental, documentary and animated shorts.

7:30 pm, $5-$15 suggested

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Smother’s day.

4-10 pm, free

MUSIC

ANNALISA EWALD

Agave Restaurant & Lounge

309 W San Francisco St. (505) 995-4530

Classical and baroque guitar.

6-9 pm, free

64 LOVE MACHINE

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Take a look at that name. Do we really need to tell you it's funk?

8 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

King Charles serenades diners with vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

HALF BROKE HORSES

Honeymoon Brewery

907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139

Two-step your way to honky tonk heaven.

6:30-9 pm, free

HIGH DESERT HARPS

First Presbyterian Church

208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544

Angelic plucking of works by Bach, Mozart and more.

5:30 pm, free

JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Classic dance band jams.

8-11 pm, free

JOHNNY LLOYD

Upper Crust Pizza

329 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 982-0000

Old school Americana.

6-8 pm, free

LAMBY BAND

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road (505) 428-0090

Vox and guitar covers and originals from Georgina Hahn.

2-5 pm, free

LUCY BARNA

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid

(505) 473-0743

Original folk and Americana.

5 pm, free

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave.

(505) 988-9232

A jazz jamboree.

7 pm, free

TONY GILKYSON AND RICK SHEA

Kitchen Sink Recording Studio

528 Jose St., (505) 699-4323

Folk and honky-tonk.

7:30 pm, $20

TUMBLEROOT MUSIC LAB

WITH MICHAEL GARFIELD

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St.

(505) 393-5135

Musicians, painters and dancers gather for group improvs.

7-10 pm, $10-$15 suggested

THEATER

SWEAT

Santa Fe Playhouse

142 E De Vargas St.

(505) 988-4262

Playwright Lynn Nottage won a Pulitzer for this, y’all—well earned, judging from the two years of research she put into writing it.

7:30-9:30 pm, pay what you wish

SYMPATICO

The Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576

A tragedy of traitors and horse traders.

7:30 pm, $15-$35

THE CALENDAR

WORKSHOP

ADOBE DOWNTOWN

San Miguel Chapel

401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974

Learn to make adobe bricks from the experts at Cornerstones Community Partnerships. Plus for a donation, you can craft a brick that’ll be used to rebuild Chimayó's Plaza del Cerro.

9 am-1 pm, free-$25

SLACKLINE AND POI

WITH ELI

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Satisfy your curiosity about tightrope walking and flaming pole tricks in one go. A real two birds one stone situation here.

7-8:30 pm, $18-$22

YOUTH AERIALS CLASS

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Aspiring aerialists ages 7-12 are invited to come explore vertically.

5-6 pm, $24

SAT/13

ART OPENINGS

ENCHANTMENT SHOW: THE JOURNEY 2023 (RECEPTION)

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Recent works from regional members of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

4-6 pm, free SPRING SIDESHOW

Antieau Gallery

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

New mixed media works by Chris Roberts-Antieau alongside shadow boxes by Scott Lyon, tintypes by James O’Connell, live music, artisan goods and more.

1-6 pm, free

THE SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

In the West Casitas, north of the water tower 1612 Alcaldesa St.

An outdoor juried art market featuring locally produced pottery, jewelry, painting, photography, furniture, textiles and the like.

9 am-2 pm, free TIM WELDON: A TRIP TO THE FUN HOUSE (OPENING) Calliope

2876 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 660-9169

Celebrating Weldon's carnivalesque mixed media work with snacks and live music courtesy of Lucy Barna. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

4-6:30 pm, free

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ART ART

MEOW WOLF

352 Rufina Cir, Santa Fe

Come and enjoy live music, delicious appetizers, and amazing art!

The show is located at the Meow Wolf's new Rainbow Rainbow room!

This group of mixed media works that include images created by The Life Link Clubhouse artists.

Inspiration for these pieces came from the artists' own experiences navigating their mental health journeys. The works offer hope and reflection that taking care of our minds is key to a healthy and fulfilling life.

This free outdoor event is open to the public in the Dance Circle in the center of the IAIA campus. Grand Entry begins at 1 pm, and food, drink, and art sales will be provided by the IAIA community.

2023 Spring IAIA Powwow

Saturday, May 13, 1–5 pm

IAIA Campus

83 Avan Nu Po Road

Santa Fe, NM

THE CALENDAR

BOOKS/LECTURES

AMERICAN RAMBLE: A WALK OF MEMORY AND RENEWAL

Collected Works

Bookstore and Coffeehouse

202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226

Neil King Jr. reads from his travel memoir of walking from New York City to Washington, D.C. in the middle of COVID.

6 pm, free

GSB PRESENTS:

J. HOOLIHAN CLAYTON

Garcia Street Books

376 Garcia St., (505) 986-0151

The author discusses her new historical fiction, Small Light of Discretion: A Novel of Factual History Regarding Treachery and the Expulsion of the Utes.

4-6 pm, free

HIT THE ROAD

Travel Bug Coffee Shop

839 Paseo de Peralta (505) 992-0418

Zelie Pollon signs copies of her guide to familial globe trotting.

5 pm, free

HOW TO READ YOUR ASTROLOGY CHART

Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health

909 Early St., (505) 310-7917

Learn

Learn about your rising, sun and moon signs so you won’t have to resort to online charts.

1-2:30 pm, free

KEVIN WATSON: ARTIST TALK

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915

Kevin Watson discusses the collection-based creative process behind his ongoing exhibit Bricolage Unbridled

2-3 pm, free

L SCOOTER MORRIS: ARTIST TALK

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915

Morris discusses the "sculpted paintings" of flags currently on view in the exhibition Tipping Point.

3-4 pm, free

NEW MEXICO'S DYNAMIC GEOLOGY

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Scott Baldridge rocks your socks off with a discussion of ongoing changes to the local mineral world.

1-2 pm, $28-$35

DANCE

CONTRA DANCE

Odd Fellows Hall

1125 Cerrillos Road (505) 690-4165

Bring soft-soled shoes and your vax card and learn to contra dance. Lesson at 7 pm, dance at 7:30 pm with live music by Roaring Jelly.

7 pm, $9-$10

ENTREFLAMENCO SPRING

SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

The cascade of castanets continues.

7:30 pm, $25-$45

SLEEPING WOMAN

MOUNTAIN FLAMENCO

CONCERT

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601

Damn, the flamenco scene is really popping off this weekend.

7 pm, $20-$30

EVENTS

108 SUN SALUTATIONS FOR WORLD PEACE

Railyard Performance Center

1611 Paseo de Peralta

Execute sun salutations as part of an event to benefit the Santa Fe Community Yoga Center and its local school programs.

2-5 pm, $25 suggested

12 TRAVELING TRADERS

RETURNS

Santa Fe Women's Club

1616 Old Pecos Trail (505) 660-9906

A sale of textiles, antiques, jewelry and more culled from around the world.

10 am-5 pm, free

2023 IAIA COMMENCEMENT

CEREMONY Institute of American Indian Arts

83 Avan Nu Po Road (505) 424-2300

This year's keynote speaker is Jeffrey Gibson, y'all. Dope.

10 am-noon, free

2023 SFCC COMMENCEMENT

CEREMONY

Santa Fe Community College

6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000

Honor the cap-and-gown crowd.

10 am, free

2023 SPRING IAIA POWWOW

Institute of American Indian Arts

83 Avan Nu Po Road (505) 424-2300

Host drums are Thunder Boyz and the Rio Grande Singers, and expect all your classic powwow food and art booth goodies.

1-5 pm, free

BOOK SALE: ALL YOU CAN STUFF

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon (505) 466-7323

Pay $5 per bag of media pickings. And yes, you can do your best to overpack each tote.

10 am-4 pm, $5

CELEBRATE MOTHER’S DAY AND MAKE HISTORY OF YOUR OWN

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200

What else in the area has good mom energy? Probably Doodlets, right?

10:15 am, $15-$25

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery

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

You all know the drill by now: you watch ‘em make the whiskey and then you drink it.

3 pm, 5 pm, $20

EL MUSEO MERCADO

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

Art and antiques. 9 am-4 pm, free

KICKOFF TO SUMMER:

LITERACY IS ALL AROUND US

Nina Otero Community School

5901 Herrera Drive (505) 467-4201

A cornucopia of cute literacy-centric activities and games lined up, from puppetry to rhyming exercises.

Noon-4 pm, free

LA TIENDA FLEA

La Tienda at Eldorado

7 Caliente Road, 87508

Imagine if you took all the individual yard sales from a given weekend and combined them.

8 am-noon, free

MARGARITA RAIL

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Tequila and tunes for your train trip.

1:30 pm, $99

PLANT SALE

Moonbow Herbs and Gifts

2873 NM-14, Madrid (505) 438-0758

Pick up starter summer veggies and herbs courtesy of Ampersand Sustainable Learning Center.

10 am-3 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

Now that the pollen is finally starting to calm down, why not learn a bit about some of the plants producing it?

11 am-noon, free

SCIENCE SATURDAY

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359

Hubert Van Hecke (better known as "Mr. Science") shares a rocket-related experiment. Explosive stuff!

2-4 pm, free

SPRING ART FESTIVAL Canyon Road visitcanyonroad.com

Galleries up and down Canyon present live artist demos, specialized tours and more.

11 am-3 pm, free

STAMP OUT HUNGER FOOD DRIVE Santa Fe thefooddepot.org

Leave non-perishable food items out by your mailbox and letter carriers will pick 'em up for donation to the Food Depot.

All Day, free

VÁMONOS BIRDING HIKE

Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve 27283 W Frontage Road (505) 471-9103

Join a guide from the Santa Fe Conservation Trust and check out the evening ablutions of the wetlands' feathered occupants.

6:30-8 pm, free WELCOME TO THE MYCROVERSE!

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Some days you eat the atomic mushroom, somedays the atomic mushroom eats you. 2 pm, 6 pm, $10-$50

*IAIA is a drug and alcohol-free campus, IAIA is not responsible for lost or stolen items, injury, or accidents that occur during the event.

FILM

MACHINE GUN KELLY: MAINSTREAM SELLOUT LIVE FROM CLEVELAND

Violet Crown Cinema

1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

Lots of, uh...performative bleeding in this one, if that’s your thing!

7 pm, $13-$15

SATURDAY MORNING

CARTOONS

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Nostalgic cartoons and cereal.

11 am-7 pm, free

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St.

(505) 393-5135

Warm weather, hot chile.

4-10 pm, free

MOTHER'S DAY BRUNCH

WEEKEND

Terra Restaurant

198 NM-592

(505) 946-5800

Expect special menu items such as lemon lavender blueberry blue corn pancakes (quite the tongue twister there).

11 am-2:30 pm, free

PLANTITA POP UP

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 603-0897

This week’s offerings include a vegan bagel with a schmear.

Oy vey!

9 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC

B.A.B.E.S.

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

A DJ collective featuring Dirty Diamond, Pierce G, Tasty Freeze and Vanta Siren.

9 pm, $13

BOB MAUS

Inn & Spa at Loretto

211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-5531

Blues and soul.

6-9 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

Vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

ODD DOG

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Jam band covers and originals.

3 pm, free

QUEEN BEE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Rock, blues and pop covers.

1-3 pm, free

RADIO FREE BASSANDA

GiG Performance Space

1808 Second St., gigsantafe.com

Regional music from Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Persia and beyond, delivered with a rock ethos.

7:30 pm, $25

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

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

Rehearsed jazz followed by jazz jamming followed, occasionally, by appearances from special guests.

7 pm, free

RON ROUGEAU

Pink Adobe

406 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-7712

Acoustic tunes from the '60s and '70s.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

SANTA FE SCENIC

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Travel to the sounds of Johnny

Lloyd’s Americana.

1:30-4 pm, $109-$129

SILVER MOVIE

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Alternative rock.

8 pm, free

SOUTHWEST ARTS PRESENTS:

WINDSWEPT

St. John's United Methodist Church

1200 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-5397

Classic and contemporary pieces on oboe, flute and bassoon.

4 pm, $5-$25

STREET TREES GHOST

2889 Trades West Road

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A mostly outdoors underground show with support from Leave the Lights On, Lamby and Porter Love. Hosts encourage cycling to the event in the spirit of Bike Month.

4-7 pm, $10-$15 suggested

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

All rails and cocktails.

7 pm, $109-$129

THE EPHINJIS

Boxcar

530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222

Original rock songs with classic rock spirit.

9 pm, $5

THE MIXTAPE

Honeymoon Brewery

907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139

Local EDM producers share everything from bass house to dubstep. Tentative lineup includes Jolly Giant, Kap'n Kirk, Persona Beats and others.

8 pm-1 am, $10

TRINITY SOUL

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Rock, reggae and funk.

8-11 pm, free

THEATER

DEATHCOOKIE: A MURDER MYSTERY

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St.

(844) 743-3759

Exodus Ensemble teams up with Sky Railway for an interactive murder mystery involving a sinister secret known as "The Metamorphosis."

7 pm, $149-$170

SWEAT

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

What with the writer’s strike and all, it’s perfect timing for an expertly-penned drama about the dangers of deunionization.

7:30-9:30 pm, $15-$75

SYMPATICO

The Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576

Don’t horse around with a man’s prize stallion.

7:30 pm, $15-$35

WORKSHOP

ADOBE DOWNTOWN

San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974

Look, living in New Mexico, you never know when the ability to make adobe bricks is gonna come in handy.

9 am-1 pm, free-$25

GLAZE WORKSHOP AND TEA PARTY

Collected Works

Bookstore and Coffeehouse

202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226

Lindsey Reddick leads an exploration of glazes before the noshes come out. The attendee with the best tea party outfit will win a piece by the artist.

1-3 pm, $60-$80

LIFE CYCLES: A WORKSHOP FOR THE SOUL

Bishop's Lodge

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Aarona Lea leads a workshop with her Moon Deck oracle card set.

11 am-12:30 pm, $65-$115

MOTHER’S DAY STAINED

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TLC Stained Glass

1730 Camino Carlos Rey, #100 (505) 372-6259

Make mommy dearest a stained glass suncatcher using copper foiling. Beginners welcome.

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Santa Fe River

E Alameda and Camino Escondido

Oz Leshem discusses crafting and interpreting poetic titles.

2-3:30 pm, free

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592 (505) 946-5700

Elementally-focused yoga designed to open (and, apparently, strengthen) chakras.

10:30-11:30 am, $18-$90

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La Farge Library

1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292

An opportunity for empty nesters to explore and envision satisfying (and potentially surprising) futures.

1-2:30 pm, free

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Santa Fe River

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As part of SITE Santa Fe's ongoing Going with the Flow exhibit, Basia Irland launches ice blocks imbedded with native seeds to drift down the river.

11 am, free

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1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Buy fine art and crafts directly from local creators.

10 am-3 pm, free

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FLAMENCO CONCERT

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Flamenco guitar maestro Jose

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3 pm, $20-$30

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Santa Fe Women's Club

1616 Old Pecos Trail (505) 660-9906

Browse through a globallysourced selection of textiles, antiques, jewelry and plenty more. We bet those sellers have some interesting stories to tell...

11 am-4 pm, free

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New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200

Anyway, thought experiment aside, moms are cool and so is downtown’s history. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

10:15 am, 2 pm, $15-$25

DEATH CAFE

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Come talk about death: it's good (and goth) for you.

2:30-3:30 pm, free

EL MUSEO CULTURAL MERCADO

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

Art and antiques.

10 am-4 pm, free

FAMILY FUN DAY:

READY, SET BLOOM!

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

217 Johnson St., (505) 946-1000

The museum launches its new art truck with face painting, crafts, outdoor storytime and a treasure hunt.

11 am-2 pm, free

FAMILY MORNINGS AT FOLK ART Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204

A paper maché crafting extravaganza, inspired by the museum's current cartonería exhibit.

11 am-noon, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St. (505) 983-0134

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

7-9 pm, free

OPEN MIC

Honeymoon Brewery 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139

All mediums encouraged.  6:30 pm, free

OPEN MIC JAZZ

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

Join High City Jazz Quartet onstage.  5-7 pm, free

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ist Hernan Gomez Chavez that recently went up?

CW: The [Guzman] mural was recreated, it’s in the possession of the museum and it’s going to be installed on the interior of the building so it can have proper environmental controls to ensure longevity—where people don’t have to pay admission to see it. It’s not behind a paywall...and there will be a bit of didactic info about the mural and that whole story there for people.

MW: Hernan’s piece will be there for two months. He wanted to do it as an homage, and I think he’s looking for a permanent home for it, but I don’t want to put words in his mouth. There were a couple false starts and logistical challenges, obviously, with an active construction site, but we’re finally able to see it come to fruition.

Can you talk about any tech or AR elements within the space?

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

After many years, controversies including citizens’ concerns over Railyard views and a full-on movement opposed to the destruction of the “Multicultural” mural credited to artist Gilberto Guzman—not to mention a whole lot of construction—the New Mexico Museum of Art has announced it will open its Vladem Contemporary satellite wing at the site of the former Halpin Building on the corner of Guadalupe Street and Montezuma Avenue on Saturday, Sept. 23. Named for donors Ellen and Bob Vladem, who dropped $4 million into the museum, the new space will be a massive and modern undertaking dedicated to—get this— contemporary artistry. SFR spoke with the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Head of Curatorial Affairs Christian Waguespack and Executive Director Mark White ahead of the opening. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

SFR: What can you tell us about the opening exhibit?

Christian Waguespack: The exhibit is called Shadow and Light, and it was curated by [former Head of Curatorial Affairs]

Merry Scully before she left to be a director at a museum in California, and the idea is looking at artists who have made work that responds to these almost primordial aesthetic elements of being in New Mexico and the West. The quality of light has had such

a profound impact on the art going on out here since the first artists came to work in New Mexico, but it also ties into things like the California Light and Space Movement, so it talks to that dialogue of larger historical ideas. It also gets into more of the philosophical and cultural connotations that go with these ideas of shadow and light; a sort of broad, conceptual idea with works from our collection and on loan from artists. There are figures who will be no real surprise, like Emil Bisttram and Florence Miller Pierce...who were members of the Transcendental Painting Group, this artist collective that looked at philosophical and spiritual forms of art. We’ll have Agnes Martin, too, as well as more contemporary pieces by Virgil Ortiz, Jenny Holzer…Erika Wanenmacher, Yayoi Kusama.

Mark White: Probably the most substantial collaboration as part of that show is the one with Virgil Ortiz. Virgil has been working on [his project] Revolt 1680/2180 for years and creating variations on the narrative, and that’ll be work that’s part of the series shown at Vladem and nowhere else.

Has a curator for Vladem Contemporary come on board?

CW: We’re looking to bring on a new contemporary art curator by the time we open.

What’s the shape of curation moving forward? Can we assume it’s a team effort?

CW: Our curatorial team works closely with each other, and while the new cura-

tor will be focused on contemporary art, and will be programing primarily for the Vladem, the next exhibit will be a collaborative curatorial project we’re all working on together.

What can you tell us about the future of the Gilberto Guzman “Multicultural” mural and the “Ode to the Multicultural Mural (La Guadalupana)” piece by art-

CW: I can’t give away any specifics, but we have been working with some AI experts and our inaugural exhibition, we hope, will include some augmented reality aspects. That’s part of the whole thesis behind why we’re doing this. We want a space engaged with the contemporary moment, engaging in a way that was never imagined when the Plaza building went up in 1917. And any AR aspects of the exhibitions are entirely voluntary, so if someone wants to come and spend a contemplative moment with a painting or sculpture, they can, but we’ll have bells and whistles and a nice menu for them to choose from, too.

MW: I can’t talk about this too much, but we’ve got an AR experience that we’re working on with Judy Chicago. There’s an installation by Leo Villareal, a digital installation that will be in the breezeway... and be available 24/7. The other thing available 24/7 is the window box project, which is kind of like a storefront window.

Is there anything else we need to know just now?

CW: The inaugural exhibition is going to be stellar, but the other thing this building is doing is doubling our storage capacity. That’ll be the tip of the iceberg. We can continue to build the contemporary art collection as the only museum in Santa Fe collecting all kinds of contemporary arts. Aside from immediate joy, it’s a long-lasting project.

MW: It’s fully accessible and easily navigable for anyone with mobility concerns. We have a passenger elevator, ramps into all the spaces—none of the concerns of the 1917 building.

If someone wants to come and spend a contemplative moment with a painting or sculpture, they can, but we’ll have bells and whistles and a nice menu for them to choose from, too.

-Christian Waguespack, Head of Curatorial Affairs

New Mexico Museum of Art’s Vladem Contemporary slated for Sept. 23 opening

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One wonders whether some mustachioed cadre of powerful, cowboy hat-owning old-timers meet inside a super-secret hollowed out smoker somewhere between Texas and Missouri to decide, among other things, that every BBQ joint across the land must continue to have the same kind of ambiance.

In fact, try this little thought experiment: Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Then envision what a BBQ eatery looks like. Chances are, your brain painted a picture of red checkered tablecloths and long picnic tables; of too many paper napkins to be good for the planet/not enough for the grease on your hands and a strange sort of contrast where minimalist and vaguely country decor meets maximalist meat consumption. Congrats—you’ve just gotten the gist of Rudy’s Country Store and Bar-B-Q.

The little BBQ that could and did and still does originated outside San Antonio, Texas, when an ancient gas station/mechanic/grocery that opened in the literal freaking 1800s added a BBQ component to its offerings. To answer your next question, no, the Rudy’s website doesn’t specify at what point in the 1800s the grocery/gas/mechanic shop came to be, but we do know the smoked meat aspect came about in 1989.

Cut to today and Rudy’s has locations in Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Florida, Oklahoma and, quelle surprise, right here in New Mexico. In fact, the eatery is coming up on its first year of business in Santa Fe; a town that, at least in my circles, was wary about a chain BBQ ridin’ into town and staking a claim. Aw, hell, we’re wary about chain anything popping up here in Specialtown, USA, but nevertheless—Rudy’s is here after being an Albuquerque mainstay for roughly a bazillion years. Are y’all gonna be OK?

I mean, I’m joking a little, and there are countless reasons Santa Fe hasn’t embraced a lot of restaurants like Rudy’s. Maybe it’s culture shock, water and construction costs, antiquated building ordinances and a populace that shrieks at the concept of change lit-

erally anytime anyone tries to do anything. Nevertheless, we have our Panera and our Chili’s and our Subway and our whatever else, now we have our Rudy’s— which is, admittedly, not, like, on the McDonald’s level of chaindom, but not what we’d call locally-owned. Our Rudy’s is not a franchise. Still, without getting into the economic and geographic factors that leave many Americans with no choice but to think fast and/or chainy when they’re feeding their families, my anecdotal evidence suggests many believed the city would descend into a chaotic hellscape if a restaurant with regional presence were to open on the farthest reaches of the Southside. Turns out, we all survived somehow, Rudy’s is pretty affordable all things considered and, frankly, tastes damn good (with some caveats).

I, too had my doubts, as I often do with chains, but I had to test my chains=not great hypothesis over the weekend, so I crammed a buddy into the car and drove down Cerrillos Road until we both were like, “Oh, dang, did we miss it?” Just when we were ready to give up, we saw the building in all of its fauxdobe/faux farmhouse glory shining like a golden-red bastion of meats on the horizon. And so we entered to find the aforementioned unofficial BBQ decor game strong. Rudy’s feels and looks new, but it definitely has the

the wall at Rudy’s and watched the workers behind the counter putting together and slicing apart various dishes. I continued my love affair with pork by ordering the pulled pork sandwich ($7.49) and a 1/2 pound of the baby back ribs ($9.49), while my friend (whom I literally only brought along because he eats red meat) ordered the brisket sandwich ($8.49) and potato salad ($2.49). We also ordered a jumbo smoked potato ($9.99, like a baked potato, but...you get it) with turkey breast for another party who couldn’t join us but heard we were on the BBQ mission. Oh, and we got some chocolate pudding ($3.29) because, duh.

The staff jumped into high gear, cutting and wrapping and plopping and sand-

wich-izing right before our eyes. Mere moments went by before we had a large box crammed with more food than any two people had a right ordering. Perhaps over-hungry at this point, we retreated to the long picnic tables with the red checkered tablecloths—and then we went to town on those bad boys.

The pulled pork sandwich was what I’d call fine if a mite dry in a way that not even a healthy dousing of both types of Rudy’s sause (yes, they spell it with an “s.”) could fix. One sause is meant to have more of a kick, I guess, while the other is unfortunately called “Sissy Sause.” Ugh. I don’t like that word, and don’t see how it relates to food. And anyway, it tasted better than the original, so score one for the sissies, but know it didn’t much fix the dryness and over-salted taste of the pulled pork. My pal, meanwhile, couldn’t say enough nice things about the brisket. It was tender, it was juicy, it was all the words people use to describe meat they like—a net gain for our dining partnership.

As for the baby back ribs? Rudy’s clearly knows what it’s doing. Not only did whoever was the pitmaster completely nail the variety of textures one wants from BBQ, they found a middle ground between tender and firm. We closed our meal with the chocolate pudding which was...I mean, what can you say about chocolate pudding? It’s pudding, it’s great, end of list.

In the end we felt sated, but also like we’d betrayed our town on some level. Rudy’s popping up just down the street from locally-owned BBQ joint The Ranch House feels, I dunno, aggressive. It also feels like despite Rudy’s likely serving what I’m sure is a consistent product, if given the choice between most local BBQ (and I’m thinking of Uncle DT’s and The Cowgirl and even you, Whole Hog, with all your tasty little sauces that don’t call someone’s toughness into question over their sauce preferences), we might want to all think local if we’re going to eat out, especially post-pandemic. As it stands, though, if someone hands me some Rudy’s, I’ll totally eat it. No shade, no judgement—y’all gotta get fed any way that makes sense to you.

Local bud Alex Monasterio approves, but we might have ordered too much food at Rudy’s.

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Michael J. Fox rides in the Delorean to tell his life story

BY JULIE ANN GRIMM editor@sfreporter.com

It’s tempting to describe the arc of Michael J. Fox’s advocacy for Parkinson’s research in a direct course from the actor’s diagnosis at age 29 with an early onset of the disease. Yet, the new documentary Still candidly explains how Fox hid his illness for seven years before he publicly acknowledged what he thought at first must be the “cosmic price” he had to pay for skyrocketing Hollywood success.

The script distills some of Fox’s wordsmithing from his four books into a story that vacillates between the late-night circuit and the red carpet, and his daily reality of medication and physical therapy to adjust to diminishing functions. There’s a good measure of nostalgia as many viewers already know the story: His breaks came first with TV sitcoms, then stardom followed when Back to the Future and Teen Wolf hit No. 1 and No. 2 on the Blockbuster chart the same week in August of 1985.

Director Davis Guggenheim makes great use

Roughly six years to the day after the emergence of the second Guardians of the Galaxy movie, director James Gunn closes out his popular trilogy based on the Marvel Comics heroes’ squad in space. Gunn, you might recall, was fired by Marvel’s Disney overlords some years back after a number of unsavory and aged tweets surfaced. But after helming HBO’s Peacemaker (a DC property, no less; Gunn ultimately took over that company’s entire filmic operations, too), he came back into the fold and now gets to do it his way (play Sinatra song in your head here).

Vol. 3 comes across as a bit of an outlier when it comes to Marvel’s stable. It’s a little less Marvel-y than the behemoth’s other properties. Guardians is supposed to cool, too, bro. You’re gonna hear Beastie Boys and Florence and the Machine songs play while Starlord (Chris Pratt, or Crisp Rat if you’re nasty), Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista), Mantis (Pom Klementieff), Groot (Vin Diesel), Nebula (Karen Gillan) and Gamora (Zoe Saldaña) phase between badassery and kicky little jokes.

It is *air quotes* radical. Still, despite the very real Marvel fatigue so many are feeling after years of multiple yearly movies and television shows, comics, streaming one-offs, etc., Gunn actually manages to eke out an enjoyable, if wildly pre-

of Fox’s myriad roles, using clips from The Secret of My Success and Family Ties, for example, as story devices in Fox’s own timeline. In Still’s interview segments, Fox discusses the irony that for the early years of his television and movie career, he never stopped moving. Then, as the tremors, rigid muscles and spasms that characterize the disease descended on him, stillness eluded him in a new, involuntary way.

The Marty McFly sparkle lingers in his blue eyes, but looking into Fox’s 61-year-old face as he struggles to form words can take one’s breath away. He explains a thrust into work, depression and alcoholism that comprised his initial response to the illness; he

dictable, sci-fi romp with some notably beautiful special effects and a whole lot of chosen family thematics at play.

All in all, though, this is a film about Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper), that little humanoid raccoon whom we all love because why is a raccoon talking and flying spaceships and shooting lasers? Anyway, he’s straight up unconscious this time out, following an attack by series newcomer Adam Warlock (Will Poulter) who has come for mysterious but probably also nefarious reasons. He works for the High Evolutionary (an honestly excellent Chukwudi Iwuji from Peacemaker), whom, we learn through a series of flashbacks, plays a prominent role in Rocket’s very existence and is out there doing genocide on a planetary scale. Rocket’s flashbacks are easily the most enjoyable parts of the film, and rather emotional to boot. Gunn’s writing evolution really shows in these scenes, even if they are heavy-handed—compare that to the samey fasttalking yuks found elsewhere throughout.

Of course, if you’ve been following along this whole time, you’ll certainly get a sense of satisfaction when the credits roll. And though the story belongs to Rocket, no question, the ultimate fates of his fellow Guardians are satisfying and bittersweet. The endings of their disparate stories feel more grown up than expected and show that Gunn has matured as a filmmaker. Also a bunch of shit blows up. (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 150 min.

only went public after it became too difficult to hide. Pity him not, Fox admonishes: “If you pity me, it’s never going to get to me. I’m not pitiful. I’ve got shit going on. I am a tough son of a bitch. I am a cockroach.”

True that: Fox famously fought back by establishing a philanthropic foundation for Parkinson’s research and advocating to Congress. To date, he’s raised more than $2 billion and he’s still at it.

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Spoiler alert: Yes, God is there. “There” being the mind, heart and soul of not-quite-12-yearold Margaret Simon (rendered wonderfully with humor and winsomeness by Abby Ryder Fortson), who would like divine intervention so she can: get her period, grow breasts, fit in with her friends and determine to which, if any, religion she belongs.

In other words, Simon is struggling with a combination of puberty and existential angst, and she’s doing so in a very specific time and place: 1970, in the wood-paneled, green-lawned New Jersey suburbs where her parents have unceremoniously relocated her from New York City just in time to start sixth grade.

Are you There God? It’s Me Margaret, of course, is based on the 1970 Judy Blume novel of the same name, a book that has been read by millions, banned periodically since its publication and remained, despite the significant cultural shifts in the last half-century, significant enough to finally earn a bigscreen debut.

If you’ve been hiding out from popular culture, Judy Blume is having a moment; a new documentary about her also debuted on Amazon this month (Judy Blume Forever). The 85-year-old writer serves as producer on Are you There God? and remains an

unflinching champion of reading and anti-censorship efforts (she and her husband run an independent nonprofit bookstore in Key West, Florida).

The film mostly hews to its source material. Margaret isn’t the only Simon searching for answers: Her mother Barbara (a terrific Rachel McAdams) is taking the suburban relocation as an opportunity to become a stay-at-home mom versus an art teacher. She’s also reached out to her estranged conservative Christian parents who balked when their daughter married a Jewish man (a family show-down over which religion Margaret should follow is the only new material this viewer noticed). Margaret’s glamorous grandmother Sylvia (a hilarious Kathy Bates) has to learn to let go a little bit now that the family has decamped— although she jumps to take her granddaughter to Temple (and to see some live Gilbert and Sullivan, of course).

But those subplots, though threaded well throughout the film, are secondary to Margaret’s coming-of-age concerns. Writing for the New York Times, Elisabeth Egan notes the novel’s importance for “the girls of Generation X,” who grew up with rotary phones, listening to the radio in the hopes of hearing their favorite songs. In this way, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’s belated film debut is perhaps less a tribute to its ongoing relevance than its nostalgic value for middle-aged women who love Judy Blume. Fortunately, we are legion.

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16 Minute or milligram, e.g.

17 Home clearance event [“Here’s where your ring fingers go ...”]

19 Bring down, as a building 20 Came to an end 21 Skiing surface

23 Country singer Musgraves

24 2006 Nintendo release

25 Egg-shaped

29 Some retired boomers, for short

30 Digital gambling game [“Position your middle fingers right there ...”]

32 All dried out (and anagram of 28-Down)

33 Electrician’s tool

34 Turkey

38 “Oh, golly ...”

39 Comic book artists

40 Sound of contentment

41 Steak and peppers dish [“Let’s get the index fingers back to home position ...”]

43 Obama-era policy, briefly

47 Chihuahua, for one

48 Acne medication brand

49 Hall of Hall & Oates

50 “No question”

52 “___ borealis?! At this time of year ...”

53 Protein building block?

56 1994 Robin Williams/John Turturro movie [“Now move those index fingers inward ...”]

58 Rank emanation

59 Come after

60 “___ California” (Red Hot Chili Peppers song)

61 “Push th’ Little Daisies” duo

62 Stashed in a new place

63 Those, in San Jose DOWN

1 Dots of dust

2 Pretend to be

3 Complete

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7 Per team

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9 Pie crust flavor

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12 “Sound of Metal” actor Ahmed

13 Had some grub

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22 Cottonwood, for one

24 Telegraph

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27 Presidential span

28 Scots Gaelic

30 Vice ___

31 Nearly 300-year-old unfinished Jean-Philippe Rameau work, completed and premiering in 2023, e.g.

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34 Small prevarications

35 Working without ___ (taking risks)

36 Acronymic store name

37 What a flashing yellow arrow may allow (watching for crossing traffic)

38 “Jury ___” (2023 Amazon Freevee series)

40 Playfully mischievous

42 Song that Dolly Parton temporarily reworded as “Vaccine” in 2021

43 Finnish DJ behind the ubiquitous hit “Sandstorm”

44 Candle store features

45 1993 Broadway flop musical based on a big-nosed Rostand hero

46 “Jagged Little Pill” singer Morissette

49 “No ___” (No Doubt tribute band)

51 Rival of Lyft

52 Like most fine wines

53 Pull behind

54 Praiseworthy poem

55 Opponent

57 Rapa ___ (Easter Island, to locals)

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Rob Brezsny Week of May 10th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): All of us are always telling ourselves stories—in essence, making movies in our minds. We are the producer, the director, the special effects team, the voice-over narrator, and all the actors in these inner dramas. Are their themes repetitious and negative or creative and life-affirming? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to work on emphasizing the latter. If the tales unfolding in your imagination are veering off in a direction that provokes anxiety, reassert your directorial authority. Firmly and playfully reroute them so they uplift and enchant you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A famous football coach once said his main method was to manipulate, coax, and even bully his players into doing things they didn’t like to do. Why? So they could build their toughness and willpower, making it more likely they would accomplish formidable feats. While this may be an approach that works for some tasks, it’s not right for many others. Here’s a further nuance: The grind-it-out-doingunpleasant-things may be apt for certain phases of a journey to success, but not for other phases. Here’s the good news, Taurus: For now, you have mostly completed doing what you don’t love to do. In the coming weeks, your freedom to focus on doing fun things will expand dramatically.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Most of us have an area of our lives where futility is a primary emotion. This may be a once-exciting dream that never got much traction. It could be a skill we possess that we’ve never found a satisfying way to express. The epicenter of our futility could be a relationship that has never lived up to its promise or a potential we haven’t been able to ripen. Wherever this sense of fruitlessness resides in your own life, Gemini, I have an interesting prediction: During the next 12 months, you will either finally garner some meaningful fulfillment through it or else find a way to outgrow it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Many of us Cancerians have high levels of perseverance. Our resoluteness and doggedness may be uncanny. But we often practice these subtle superpowers with such sensitive grace that they’re virtually invisible to casual observers. We appear modest and gentle, not fierce and driven. For instance, this is the first time I have bragged about the fact that I have composed over 2,000 consecutive horoscope columns without ever missing a deadline. Anyway, my fellow Crabs, I have a really good feeling about how much grit and determination you will be able to marshal in the coming months. You may break your own personal records for tenacity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Why do migrating geese fly in a V formation? For one thing, it conserves their energy. Every bird except the leader enjoys a reduction in wind resistance. As the flight progresses, the geese take turns being the guide in front. Soaring along in this shape also seems to aid the birds’ communication and coordination. I suggest you consider making this scenario your inspiration, dear Leo. You are entering a phase when synergetic cooperation with others is even more important than usual. If you feel called to lead, be ready and willing to exert yourself—and be open to letting your associates serve as leaders. For extra credit: Do a web search for an image of migrating geese and keep it in a prominent place for the next four weeks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I boldly predict that you will soon locate a missing magic key. Hooray! It hasn’t been easy. There has been luck involved, but your Virgo-style diligence and ingenuity has been crucial. I also predict that you will locate the door that the magic key will unlock. Now here’s my challenge: Please fulfill my two predictions no later than the solstice. To aid your search, meditate on this question: “What is the most important breakthrough for me to accomplish in the next six weeks?”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Losing something we value may make us sad. It can cause us to doubt ourselves and wonder if we have fallen out of favor with the Fates or are

somehow being punished by God. I’ve experienced deflations and demoralizations like that on far more occasions than I want to remember. And yet, I have noticed that when these apparent misfortunes have happened, they have often opened up space for new possibilities that would not otherwise have come my way. They have emptied out a corner of my imagination that becomes receptive to a fresh dispensation. I predict such a development for you, Libra.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Kissing is always a worthy way to spend your leisure time, but I foresee an even finer opportunity in the coming weeks: magnificent kissing sprees that spur you to explore previously unplumbed depths of wild tenderness. On a related theme, it’s always a wise self-blessing to experiment with rich new shades and tones of intimacy. But you are now eligible for an unusually profound excursion into these mysteries. Are you bold and free enough to glide further into the frontiers of fascinating togetherness?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) worked at a variety of jobs. He sold cloth. He was a land surveyor and bookkeeper. He managed the household affairs of his city’s sheriffs, and he supervised the city’s wine imports and taxation. Oh, by the way, he also had a hobby on the side: lensmaking. This ultimately led to a spectacular outcome. Leeuwenhoek created the world’s first high-powered microscope and was instrumental in transforming microbiology into a scientific discipline. In accordance with astrological omens, I propose we make him your inspirational role model in the coming months, Sagittarius. What hobby or pastime or amusement could you turn into a central passion?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I wonder if you weren’t listened to attentively when you were a kid. And is it possible you weren’t hugged enough or consistently treated with the tender kindness you deserved and needed? I’m worried there weren’t enough adults who recognized your potential strengths and helped nurture them. But if you did indeed endure any of this mistreatment, dear Capricorn, I have good news. During the next 12 months, you will have unprecedented opportunities to overcome at least some of the neglect you experienced while young. Here’s the motto you can aspire to: “It’s never too late to have a fruitful childhood and creative adolescence.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As I’ve explored the mysteries of healing my traumas and disturbances over the past 20 years, I’ve concluded that the single most effective healer I can work with is my own body. Expert health practitioners are crucial, too, but their work requires my body’s full, purposeful, collaborative engagement. The soft warm animal home I inhabit has great wisdom about what it needs and how to get what it needs and how to work with the help it receives from other healers. The key is to refine the art of listening to its counsel. It has taken me a while to learn its language, but I’m making good progress. Dear Aquarius, in the coming weeks, you can make great strides in developing such a robust relationship with your body.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Can we surmise what your life might be like as the expansive planet Jupiter rumbles through your astrological House of Connections and Communications during the coming months? I expect you will be even more articulate and persuasive than usual. Your ability to create new alliances and nurture old ones will be at a peak. By the way, the House of Communications and Connections is also the House of Education and Acumen. So I suspect you will learn a LOT during this time. It’s likely you will be brainier and more perceptive than ever before. Important advice: Call on your waxing intelligence to make you wiser as well as smarter.

Homework: What’s the most fun experiment you could try right now?

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