Santa Fe Reporter, May 31, 2023

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7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

CANNA-BUY 9

Madrid’s first dispensary goes on the market

COVER STORY 10

CASTLES, RUINS AND MYSTERIES V

Unlocking repurposed and ignored history

CULTURE

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Noh time like the present for peeping Tibetan mountain peaks, smelling the lavender and experiencing multisensory music

THE CALENDAR 16

3 QUESTIONS 24

With musician Lyra Muse

FOOD

BRING ON THE BAKE 25

There’s a new spot for breakfast sandos and our bodies are ready

SOLID GOLD 27

Alkeme, you’ve done the impossible and made shrimp lovers of us all

MOVIES 28

YOU HURT MY FEELINGS REVIEW

I mean, can you name a comedy that wasn’t improved by Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ presence?

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COVER, MAY 10: “ON THE STRUGGLE BUS”

HUSTLE AND BUS-LE

I walk a mile to get the #1 bus on Agua Fria and I am glad of it. COVID cost drivers (is it true one or more died?), and they’ve not been replaced. The 5, 6 and M routes are, hopefully, temporarily suspended...Could the city and/or [Transit Advisory Board] reach out to other cities, even states? Meantime, I say thank you to Santa Fe Trails personnel for keeping us rollin’ with depleted staff.

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minutes during commute hours), make safer bike lanes and parking areas, make areas more walkable and accommodating to people rather than cars and stop focusing on parking as a profit center.

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MORNING WORD, MAY 19:

“AG CALLS FOR MORE RESOURCES”

BONES ABOUT IT

I’m so glad Eric Blinman has filed a lawsuit. It worries me to see our governor seemingly choose friendship and cronyism over our cherished and vital archaeology powerhouse, Eric Blinman.

He has taught many thousands of us in lectures, field trips, brown bag lunches and school outreach programs—while also enriching our entire Southwest with his scholarship and fieldwork.

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Signing with Author Shawn Patrick Boyd

Saturday, June 3, 12:00–6:00 p.m.

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24: “NO SUCH THING AS FREE PARKING”

FEW SMALL SUGGESTIONS

How about up public transit (including more routes) and its frequency (to say every 10

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Winona Forever is a supernatural mystery about four misfit teens, a dangerous secret society, and a powerful relic. Join local writer Shawn Patrick Boyd and Portland-based illustrator Elijah Henry at a signing to celebrate the release of the collected edition of their debut comic.

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“The men and the women all dress the same.”

“And you think that’s because of the internet?”

—Overheard from a man and woman shopping at Trader Joe’s

“The company named it 1C2, so we call him Juancito.”

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VIRGIN GALACTIC SPACE CREW INCLUDES NEW MEXICAN

We’ve also sent chile to space. No big.

WELCOME TO THE PARTY!

SUPREME COURT DECISION NARROWING WATER PROTECTIONS COULD HAVE OUTSIZE IMPACT ON NM.

We must have forgotten to buy a house for Clarence Thomas’ mom.

HIGH-PAID CITY, COUNTY WORKERS DON’T APPEAR TO ACTUALLY STILL BE WORKING IN POSITIONS

That’ll be fun to think about next time we’re riding that E and waiting for payday.

SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN DROPS BLONDIE

She’s too hot for Dagwood, anyway.

CLIMBERS CELEBRATE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST MOUNT EVEREST ASCENSION SFR staffers struggle with concept of getting up to retrieve snack.

WGA MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS HOLD PICKET PARTY AT MIDTOWN CAMPUS

What’re we supposed to do this summer without TV? Talk to people we know?!

GOV RE-STARTS ORGANIZED CRIME TASK FORCE

The force so important in the fight against the mob we’d forgotten about it for decades.

CITY COUNCIL RACES

New candidates have jumped into council races in Districts 1 and 2.

Gallery Talk

2:00–3:00pm

Join us for a gallery talk with artist John Paul Granillo in the newly opened exhibition, Between the Lines: Prison Art and Advocacy l A Community Conversation. Instrumental in the development of this exhibition, John Paul will explore and expand on its themes while sharing his personal story.

“Everywhere every man has the right to be recognized as a human being before the law.”

~This quote, stitched on an arpillera (fabric collage) in the exhibition, references the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. ASL Interpretation will be provided during the Gallery Talk.

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Acompañanos a la plática de galería con el artista John Paul Granillo en la exposición recién inaugurada, Entre líneas: arte carcelario y abogacía: Una conversación comunitaria. Instrumental en el desarrollo de esta exposición, John Paul explorará y ampliará sobre los temas de la exposición mientras comparte su historia personal.

“En todas partes, todo hombre tiene derecho de ser reconocido como ser humano ante la ley.”

~Esta cita, bordada en una arpillera (colage de tela) dentro de la exposición, hace referencia a la Declaración de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas Se proporcionará interpretación de ASL (lengua de señas americana) durante la plática en la galería.

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Photo: John Paul in the gallery with one of his paños, which was created while incarcerated. Photo: Chloe Accardi Foto: John Paul en la galería con uno de sus paños, que creo mientras estaba encarcelado. Foto: Chloe Accardi.

Canna-Buy

Madrid’s first dispensary goes on the market

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

The owners of one of the two cannabis retail stores in Madrid are ready to call it quits after about a year of operation. CannaBliss, the Madrid dispensary next to the Old Boarding House Mercantile on the north end of town, is on the market for $599,000. While co-owners Cid and Medina Isabell say they want to pursue a life change, at least one cannabis business expert says now is the time to sell before the canna-bubble inevitably bursts in New Mexico within the next two years.

Cid Isbell tells SFR the couple wants to leave the country.

“My wife and I decided that we’re going to basically change our life and we’re going to move to Mexico,” he says. “So that’s the big driver, right now. We just want a different lifestyle.”

Isbell, who’s lived in Madrid for 20 years, says there’s already been some interest in the business, but that the couple’s real-estate agent has been vetting potential buyers and so far no one has demonstrated they can afford the purchase. The sale would include the distinctive turquoise building on Hwy. 14. Even though the couple won’t have much control over how the business is run after they sell and head south, Isbell says he hopes to see someone carry on their mission to provide cannabis products with all natural ingredients, free from corn syrup, dyes and artificial flavors.

“We’d love to see them maintain our ethics and our feel,” Isbell says. “You know, keep everything really natural and organic, because that’s been our niche.”

Matt Kennicott, co-founder of Weeds, a New Mexico cannabis business consulting company, says sellers have a market advantage right now when it comes to turnkey cannabis opportunities, but he expects the next 12 to 18 months will see lots of turnover.

“At this point, there aren’t a whole lot of businesses selling yet, or even closing their doors. But, a lot of us that are watching the trends think that that’s going to be happening pretty soon, to be perfectly honest,” Kennicott says.

Kennicott says the Isbells’ asking price appears low compared to the “little independent” weed businesses in Albuquerque, some of which, he says, have sold for up to $3 million within the first year of legal sales.

There’s no centralized multiple listing services type of database for cannabis businesses currently on the market, but one website shows a handful of other shops for sale, ranging from $500,000 to $11 million.

Yet, Madrid is a beast of its own.

The owner of Mad Reefer, the Madrid dispensary about 500 yards down Highway

14 from CannaBliss, declined to comment on the sale, but through a spokeswoman, says the small bohemian mountain town with less than 300 residents will probably not take kindly to a corporation with deep pockets and vice versa.

Isbell agrees and says he and his wife hope to attract another “mom and pop” who will fit in with the locals.

“We’re trying not to go with a big chain or something like that,” he says. “I doubt they’d be interested in our location anyway, but you never know.”

Kennicott says anyone still trying to

find a spot in the state’s cannabis industry should consider acting quickly, but also deliberately.

“My advice to a lot of our clients is, ‘Get your business fundamentals right, know your target, do the promotional and marketing things that you know how to do and you should be okay,’” he says. “But again, there’s a lot of competition out there. That’s got to be factored in too.”

Buyers beware: State law doesn’t allow transfers of cannabis business licenses, so interested buyers should be prepared to get licensed or already have one.

Cannabis business ownership changes and closures are not new, even in New Mexico where cannabis was fully legalized in 2021 and sales started in 2022. Two major players in the medical cannabis market sold to out of state companies on the heels of the Cannabis Regulation Act. PurLife sold to Nature’s Medicines for an undisclosed amount in October 2021 and R. Greenleaf sold to Schwazze in early 2022. Oso Cannabis and Abide Wellness both closed their Santa Fe locations earlier this year. Even though New Mexico saw more than $32 million in adult-use sales in March, that number dropped slightly in April and sales have hovered around $26 million to $31 million per month since the beginning of the year.

According to the state’s online cannabis portal, CannaBliss has sold more than $320,000 in both medical and recreational-use cannabis since its doors opened last April.

CannaBliss, one of two dispensaries in Madrid, is up for sale.

Cid Isbell, who with his wife co-owns CannaBliss, says the couple wants to sell the business and move to Mexico.

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CASTLES, RUINS & MYSTERIES

Unlocking repurposed and ignored history

BY JULIE ANN GRIMM, SIENA SOFIA BERGT, ANDY LYMAN + ANDREW OXFORD editor@sfreporter.com

The fifth edition of SFR’s “Castles, Ruins and Mysteries” flings readers into the outer realms of the region to the north and south of Santa Fe, opens the doors to a repurposed government building toward the edge of the city limits and strikes into the heart of downtown with

Montezuma Castle Conjures New Mexico’s Hogwarts United World College

a last look at an old grocery store. The structures in this collection don’t show up in day-trip guides to the region. In keeping with our tradition, we’ve featured intriguing locations with relatively untold stories.

First, the four-story Montezuma Castle remained untouched by last year’s massive Northern New Mexico wildfire even as students evacuated their dorm rooms inside. Then, don’t blink, or you’ll miss what’s left of Waldo. Once a thriving railroad outpost, the ruins are all that remain. Next, Santa Fe County’s 6-acre lot might one day be housing, but today it’s home to a private business. And finally, downtown’s grocery stores have been long gone, but the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum plans to soon raze the old Safeway building for a new wing.

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High school students whose academic lives revolve around the Montezuma Castle know their circumstances read like a Harry Potter novel. Not only do they sleep in dormitories on the upper floors of the castle, but they dine in a lavish hall with stained glass windows and artful chandeliers and climb stairways with grand banisters to get to classrooms. The building even features a tower and a mysterious fourth floor.

The castle is just one of several historic buildings that comprise the campus of United World CollegeUSA, a boarding school for international baccalaureate students from across the globe, located in the village of Montezuma.

Fred Harvey dreamed up the edifice as a hotel, part of his company’s first major resort within easy access of the main railroad line via a spur

line. Fire gutted the structure just a few months after its initial construction in 1885, but the rapidly rebuilt version has stood on a hill outside of Las Vegas ever since—surviving a near-miss last year when a wildfire burned the forest and homes nearby.

The Chicago firm of Burnham and Root designed the building in the Queen Anne style, characterized by its corner turret, a round room with a pointed top, and for its wide porches.

Though backers hoped its proximity to hot springs and location in fresh mountain air would spell commercial success, the hotel closed in 1904. It served as a Baptist college between 1922 and 1929, then as a seminary for Jesuits until 1972. United World College opened at the site in 1981 when oil magnate Armand Hammer bought the property. Though administrators had planned to use the castle building, they realized it would require too much work.

It wasn’t until 1999 that UWC began restoration intended to bring back to life the 1885 feel of the building. The school got as far as the third floor, leaving the top floor off limits to students and “basically in the condition it was in during the 1920s,” explains Carl-Martin Nelson, the school’s director of communications.

The restoration created stunning effects when combined with the school’s own touches. Many of the colorful original windows in the dining hall survived, complimented now by the distinctive swirls of a set of glass chandeliers by Dale Chihuly. The original hotel lobby today serves as the main entrance, covered floor-to-ceiling in warm wood paneling and replete with the reservation desk and its backdrop of dozens of compartments for mail and keys. The “women’s room” on the ground floor of the turret features a restored fireplace, which school officials say is never used and won’t be again.

They’re touchy about fire, Nelson reveals. Students evacuated the campus in the

Montezuma Hotel after the August 8, 1885 fire.

I t’s really big. It’s a good place to study with no distractions . Everybody just kind of spreads out to do their own thing. It’s pretty quiet and isolated.

-Irfan Ayub, student

path of the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon fire last spring.

“We had sort of some very unprecedented wind days and that made the fire come much faster than anybody expected, and we thought that we would be able to still be back within a couple of days,” he tells SFR. “So, we evacuated the students to [New Mexico] Highlands [University]. And as soon as we got there and we were seeing these pictures, and we saw how close the fire was, we realized that it was going to be much longer. The students left in some cases with flip-flops and one change of clothes.”

Though the fire went on to become the largest in the state’s history and photos post-

Finding Waldo Among the Mines

Waldo Canyon Road, Cerrillos

To reach Waldo, you first have to summit Devil’s Throne.

Located some two miles west of Cerrillos along County Road 57, that hairpin path’s demonic name comes from the now-ghost town’s former life as a strategically important stop along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway—when so much traffic came through the area that the road to Waldo was lit up all night like the mouth of Hades by Model Ts carefully reversing their way up the daunting slope. Today, the only other traveler is a turkey vulture circling above the stripped village. But what’s left of Waldo boasts a beautiful, curving geometry that belies its dark present.

Waldo itself (named for territorial Supreme Court Justice Henry L. Waldo, rather than the candy-striped character) could more accurately be described as two towns. The initial settlement, dating from sometime in the early 1800s, packed up and moved

from its original location (at the base of the nearby rock formation) when the ATSF laid new tracks closer to the Waldo gorge—making Waldo the crucial connecting point between the Madrid spur and the main east-west line.

“The railroad put in, in 1879, a dam up the arroyo, and there’s a cast iron pipe that came to the railroad track,” Todd Brown, president of the Cerrillos Historical Society and owner of the Cerrillos Turquoise Mining Museum, explains. “The line went along the railroad to Waldo, and they had a water tank there and they brought the water up to Madrid.”

That water helped fuel the mining boom further south (we imagine it’s pretty hard to wield a pickaxe when dehydrated). But equally important to the town’s development was what Madrid supplied to Waldo: Anthracite.

“Anthracite is hard coal,” Brown tells SFR. “The train uses soft coal, people in their houses use soft coal, but anthracite, you have to heat it up and smother it to bring out the oil.”

That carcinogen-intensive process is responsible for the most striking remains left in Waldo—a honeycomb of interconnected coke ovens which visually form a fractal stretching out towards the horizon. Without knowing the history, this curving sandstone appears more in keeping with much

ed online showed smoke billowing behind the castle, the campus stood unscathed and reopened about four weeks later. Classes ended the third week of May this year with zero days of mandatory evacuation.

Irfan Ayub, of Afghanistan, lived in the castle this last school year. He tells SFR the castle provides a quiet place to focus on learning. “It’s really big. It’s a good place to study with no distractions,” he says. “Everybody just kind of spreads out to do their own thing. It’s pretty quiet and isolated.”

And the fourth floor? “We can’t go there,” he says with a sly grin. “The door is closed.”

(Julie Ann Grimm)

Waldo’s coke ovens may look ancient, but the stone structures are actually fewer than 200 years old.

Students live and study in the renovated hotel at United World College near Las Vegas.

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older structures at Bandelier National Monument or Chaco Canyon National Historic Park than with the gold rushera clapboard of Cerrillos. But in their prime, Waldo’s ovens fed steel mills from El Paso to Pueblo. With time and the eventual help of Works Progress Administration labor, a schoolhouse was added to the settlement—as well as a lead paint factory.

“They never cleaned it up,” Brown comments. “The Environmental Protection Agency didn’t think it was polluted enough.”

But while no actual restoration work was performed, just about everything else in Waldo was picked clean when the coal industry went bust. The train station itself was even lifted up and rolled on logs down to Cerrillos (where it’s been repurposed as a private residence)—leaving its founda-

Government Garage Groomed for Livery Service

2600 Galisteo Road

Drivers on one of the city’s main thoroughfares might easily miss the old Santa Fe County Public Works Building. Tucked away on the other side of the railroad tracks from St. Francis Drive, the 1950s era structure has a relatively low profile.

fordable housing taking center stage in Santa Fe and development pushing further away from the center of town, the land carries potential for redevelopment, but for now the county isn’t planning to do much with it.

The boxy exterior recalls a time when this part of town, just north of the current city limits, could have been considered the sticks. Built to accommodate large government vehicles for repairs and service, these days the spaces are typically filled with shuttle buses and high-end SUVs.

tion standing alone next to the outline of a single fireplace whose home returned to dust decades ago.

The ruins that remain have witnessed more than their share of disaster since—including one particularly memorable crash when a train carrying corn syrup derailed on the Devil’s Throne curve as its contents sloshed to one side. Now the site is probably seen more frequently by late night Amtrak travelers on the still-active line than by area locals. But according to Brown, those few visitors who do seek out Waldo tend to bring a certain Wild West lawlessness with them—enjoying a little illegal target practice or evading Santa Fe police.

“You don’t wanna be by yourself,” Brown cautions. “You gotta let this shit happen out in the desert.”

(Siena Sofia Bergt)

The plain-looking building dominated by vehicle maintenance garage bays sits on a triangular 6-acre plot of land, wedged between the Candlelight and Vista Hermosa neighborhoods and within walking distance of the Zia Road Rail Runner station. With a shortage of af-

Paul Thompson, who owns Santa Fe Valet, moved his business into the building in 2022 after having his fleet of cars, shuttles and full-on buses spread throughout the city at various vacant lots. Santa Fe Valet shares a wall with a Santa Fe County clerk warehouse, situated at the south end of the building. But Thompson says the section that’s currently filled with a few offices, an employee pool table and mechanical accoutrements was mostly untouched since Public Works left in 2009 for its current

The old Santa Fe County Public Works building now houses Santa Fe Valet’s fleet of buses and SUVs after the county moved its operations in 2009.

A lone brick fireplace peeks out from behind the concrete remains of Waldo’s former industrial center.

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location near the Santa Fe Regional Airport after occupying the Galisteo space since 1980.

“This side, this was all vacant,” Thompson says. “It was kind of rundown and just not being used. A bunch of stuff here went to the dump.”

Thompson and his crew decided to keep a few artifacts, however. One was the giant ceiling-mounted crane with a range of motion that spans the entire front service area and which Thompson estimates has enough power to lift a car. Another is a small mural, not much bigger than a household picture frame, above a garage doorway. Thompson says a man stopped by not long after the business moved in, claiming to be the artist of the painted image of a pair of shades and a mustache that elicits thoughts of New Mexico’s rich Chicano culture.

Thompson doesn’t know the man’s name or the age of the easy-to-miss artwork, but tells SFR it became clear the painting needed to stay.

“It was important enough to him to stop by,” Thompson says.

When they moved in, the Santa Fe Valet crew also found a cow skull among the heaps of leftover items, which is now mounted above a window in a compliance office in the back.

Thompson says when he took on the lease, the structure was basically a concrete shell before he added office walls. But the building itself only accounts for approximately 15,000 square feet, according to a county spokeswoman. Most of the land is still unused by Santa Fe Valet because it lacks adequate lighting for vehicle storage, Thompson says.

County officials have long talked about redeveloping the land—eventually. Housing Authority Director J. Jordan Barela tells SFR a recent study named the property as one of several possible locations for housing, but that no real action has been taken on any of those spots.

“Right now there are no definitive plans for the Galisteo site for affordable housing or otherwise to my knowledge,” Barela says in an email. “Various types of pre-development analysis have been completed on the site in the past.”

The County Board of Commissioners has not signaled when or if they would consider converting the land. County housing officials repeatedly denied interview requests, noting there is no long-term plan for the Galisteo property. For now it will remain the home to the fleet of 52 vehicles and their black tie-clad drivers. (Andy

Lyman)

Everything Must Go As Museum Moves In Grant Avenue

Many of the Safeway grocery stores of the mid-20th Century are monuments to modern design and Mad Men-era consumer culture. Sleek. Shiny. Lots of glass.

But when the chain built a new grocery store on Grant Avenue in the 1960s, even it couldn’t help but nod to the Santa Fe style. The store, with a stucco exterior, featured a long portal.

Aside from the parking lot and the boxy shape of the building, it looked nothing like the big, breezy stores the chain was constructing elsewhere.

Still, its opening in 1966 was an occasion. The store boasted air conditioning. There was a separate meat cutting room shoppers could see through a window to watch butchers prepare meat that would then be delivered to them on a conveyor belt.

For decades, the Safeway just a couple blocks from Santa Fe Plaza was a hub for downtown residents. And the store’s rise and fall in some ways traces downtown’s own arc as it has been shaped by urban renewal, the rise of the automobile and the growth of tourism.

Closed in 1992, the store is now slated for demolition.

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum plans to construct a new building on the site that will provide a bigger space right on Grant for the famed artist’s work. Where

the street is now fronted by a parking lot, its future facade, designed by DNCA architects, will likely call to mind O’Keeffe’s paintings of Ranchos de Taos and adobes across the Southwestern landscape.

“We’re looking to O’Keeffe and O’Keeffe’s vision for New Mexico as an inspiration,” Deputy Director Jennifer Foley told members during an open house last fall.

Few may miss what’s there now and the demolition is just the latest transformation for the site, which hasn’t been left alone for long.

Once part of Fort Marcy Military Reservation, the US Army built officers’ houses on the land in the 1870s, a historic inventory by city staff says. After the military withdrew from the fort, the federal government briefly eyed the site as a national sanatorium for tuberculosis patients before turning the land over

to the city. The officers’ quarters were put up for sale and, according to a historical review by city staff, the residents who would move in reflected the diversity of Santa Fe.

Hyman and Sarah Galanter, for example, were immigrants from Latvia who ran a dry goods store in town, and Alex and Ethel Kalanges, immigrants from Greece, ran a café downtown. Later, Yacki Raizizun would move in. A spiritualist born in India, he lectured widely and authored several books on yoga, the occult, dreams and more.

By 1941, Safeway was eying the spot for its next store in Santa Fe.

Gordon F. Street, a former principal in John Gaw Meem’s architectural firm, designed the shop to reflect one of the big changes sweeping retail at the time. Rather than stores stocking goods behind counters, the merchandise was arranged in aisles. Customers could collect their own groceries and pay at a cash register on the way out.

But by the 1960s, the store was outmoded.

Safeway wanted more space and more parking. By 1992, Safeway had spun off many of its Southwestern stores to a chain called Furr’s and the Santa Fe store shuttered, though the building remained. Over the years, the building became office space for a title company and was also occupied by an art gallery.

The O’Keeffe Museum has used at least part of the building as an annex since the late 1990s, welcoming countless field trips.

To many, though, it remains the old Safeway. (Andrew Oxford)

The Safeway Market, pictured here circa 1977, opened in 1966.

Officers’ quarters photographed in 1873. In the following century, the site would become a Safeway grocery store.

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Pelléas et Mélisande

AN EYE FOR THE LARGER THAN LIFE

Tibet has a magical quality. Even among those of us who have never been there, it wins our fancy as soon as we hear word of it. Renowned photographer Irene Kung bears witness to this magic through seven large scale photographs. Kung traveled to Tibet and Yunnan in 2017, immersing herself in the scenic and often isolated landscapes of mountains and monasteries on her quest to document the beauty of the region. “My trip to Yunnan and Tibet left me with such strong impressions that only color could clearly express,” Kung says in an artist’s statement. These photos have to be seen to be believed. (Noah Hale)

Irene Kung: Rough, Tough and Mystic Opening:

5-7 pm Friday, June 2. Free. Chiaroscuro Gallery

558 Canyon Road, (505) 992-0711

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WHILE IT’S STILL SPRING

No, it’s not summer quite yet, so you can still celebrate spring while it lasts at the 18th Annual Spring Festival at El Rancho de las Golondrinas. Featuring almost 100 vendors and combining the living history museum’s long-running fiber and lavender and herb events, this year’s festival promises to make your weekend feel fresh. On the fiber side of things, find art demonstrations and a marketplace; on the lavender and herb side, you can shop for artisanal products you just know smell amazing. You’ll also have the chance to learn about traditional ranch life, including a sheep-shearing demonstration. (NH)

Santa Fe Spring Festival:

10 am-4 pm Saturday, June 3 and Sunday, June 4

$6-10. El Rancho de las Golondrinas

334 Los Pinos Road, (505) 471-2261

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THE COLOR OF MUSIC

Synesthesia describes what happens when one sense is associated with another, such as seeing a color as a result of hearing music. An interactive, musical event will ask attendees to tap into multiple senses as they look and listen. The event features conductor and educator Oliver Prezant, along with violinist Carla Kountoupes, clarinetist Jerry Weimer and cellist Katie Harlow, who will improvise as Prezant leads an improvised musical response to photographer Grant Johnson’s ultra-high resolution images of remote mountains, riverbeds, forests and sand dunes. Johnson—who will attend the event—says his fascination with such images stems from “their abstract beauty” and “resemblance to abstract expressionist painting.” By the performance’s end, Prezant says he’s “able to conduct a piece using the artwork as a musical score.” (Julia Goldberg)

Discovering the Music of Photography:

2-3:30 pm, Saturday, June 3. $25 at Hold My Ticket (holdmyticket.com/event/414641). Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road, stratagallerysantafe.com

Face On, Face Off

Oh Noh, Noh, Noh

We—and probably you, too—have a weird subconscious block around any museums that aren’t specifically contemporary which leads us to assume all work inside was made by people who’ve long since passed. So every time we saw that gorgeous Hannya mask that serves as cover image for the Museum of International Folk Art’s Yōkai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan exhibit and accompanying monograph, we assumed it must be old enough that the artist’s name probably wouldn’t even be available. How wrong we were. Ichiyu Terai-san is alive and well, and he’s coming to Santa Fe.

Terai has mastered a complex constellation of Noh masks over the course of more than 45 years of study. Much like those of the Italian Commedia dell’arte style popular at Theater Grottesco, the masks represent emotional archetypes through codified exaggerations of human features. The Hannya, for instance (a particular specialty of Terai’s), personifies jealousy in the form of a horned female demon. The Kyoto-based artist channels each character—and the generations of mask-makers who carved before him—as he pulls features from the wood, likening the process to a form of “time trav-

el.” And the passion behind his creations comes across so clearly that couture giant Valentino even partnered with the artist on the presentation of its Pre-Fall 2019 collection.

Yet the brilliance of Terai’s masks is most stunning in motion, when the tilt of a performer’s head can transform a snarling grimace into a wail of despair. Santa Fe isn’t exactly known as a bastion of Japanese stagecraft, so short of a traveling pro troupe making a miraculous appearance, Terai’s upcoming visit might be our best chance to encounter the unique magic of these masks outside the confines of a glass display case. The artist and his translator are setting up shop in the museum atrium for four days to chat with visitors while he labors on his latest creations. And as you watch the play of light across those carved cheeks, you may just catch a glimpse of their uncanny animation. (Siena

Sofia Bergt)

JAPANESE MASK-MAKING DEMONSTRATION

1-4 pm Thursday, June 1-Sunday, June 4. Free Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204

WORKSHOP THU/1-SUN/4

IRENE KUNG

RICHARD GONZALES

GRANT JOHNSON

THE CALENDAR

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

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BOOKS/LECTURES

THE NEW ERA OF PERSONALIZED CARE

Joseph's Culinary Pub

428 Agua Fria St. (505) 982-1272

Dr. Rachel Goodman and Dr. Josiah Child discuss sex in the second half of life. Steamy!

Presented by Biscochito Home Care.

11:30 am, free

EVENTS

FREE KIDS SINGALONG

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

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

3:15-4 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Second Street Brewery (Railyard)

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278

A pub quiz incorporating audio and visual clues. Whatever you do, don’t refer to the activity as trivia, though. They really don’t like that.

8-10 pm, free

HISTORY CHAT

35 Degrees North

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

Walking tour guide Christian Saiia invites locals to gather every Wednesday to discuss local history and the effects of westward colonization.

Noon-2 pm, free

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Thrice-weekly instructor-led bike rides through the city. Free for members of the City of Santa Fe recreation centers—and you can also borrow a bike from the Recreation Division if you don't have your own.

10-11 am, $5

MONTHLY PARENTING CIRCLES

Online

tewawomenunited.org/events

Kim Talachy from Tewa Women United invites parents to come together virtually for mutual support, discussion and education.

4-6 pm, free

OPEN MIC COMEDY

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Just remember what Donald O’Connor’s dad said: “Be an actor, my son/But be a comical one! They’ll be standing in lines/ For those old honky tonk monkeyshines.”

8 pm, free

OPEN MIC WEDNESDAYS

Tumbleroot Pottery Pub

135 W. Palace Ave. (505) 982-4711

Local musical talent, plus abundant booze and clay. And our hats are off to anyone who can master drunk sculpting, since our own tendency would be to quickly end up with an accidental clay cocktail.

7-10 pm, free

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Themed children’s books and activities. Today's weekly story time topic is "fun with figures,"—the figures in this case being numerical rather than corporeal in nature.

10:30-11:30 am, free

WRITER'S DEN

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

A weekly quiet, communal space to write to the sound of others' clicking keyboards. Plus, since today is the last Wednesday of the month, there’s a speaker!

This time sci-fi writer Melinda Snodgrass will be discussing how to break a story (in the Hollywood sense, that is).

5-6:30 pm, free

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

A rare and precious opportunity to satisfy your chile cravings in what pretty much counts as the wee hours by Santa Fe standards. Plus, have you tried that Rajas cheesesteak yet? It’s bonkers.

4-10 pm, free

MUSIC

CHESSA PEAK

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Original folk and Americana.

4-6 pm, free

EILEEN & THE IN-BETWEENS

Second Street Brewery

(Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Queer anti-nuke folk? Sign us up.

6 pm, free

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Bring an instrument and join the pros’ improv.

6 pm, free

JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Storytelling folk.

8-10:30 pm, free

SIR WOMAN

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

R&B and soul.

7:30 pm, $18-$23

WORKSHOP

AERIAL FABRIC WITH LISA

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Build your core strength while mocking gravity. Take that, stupid gravity!

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

THU/1

BOOKS/LECTURES

CHANGING YOUR LEGAL NAME

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Look y'all, name changes are hard enough even if you don't have to deal with people publicly invalidating your existence on top of it. Luckily, trans and genderqueer folks can get the skinny on legal name changes in from presenter Théo Ceridwen.

6 pm, free

CHRIS RAINIER: CULTURES ON THE EDGE

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

The photographer discusses his work photographing Indigenous cultures living separately from Western globalization.

7:30 pm, $10

KATHY SCHULZ: THE UNDERGROUND

RAILROAD IN OHIO

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

The author joins Sallie Bingham to chat about her recent work chronicling freedom seekers' journeys across the Buckeye State.

6 pm, free

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

Ponder whether dream snakes still bleed with “Ballad of a Nightmare” from Caroline Liu + Nathan Budoff: Perhaps, and Nevermore, opening this week at Pie Projects.

SOCIAL DANCE AND FUNDRAISER KICKOFF

Dance Station

Solana Center

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

A monthly social dance incorporating ballroom, Latin, swing and more. All levels welcome. Proceeds support junior competitors at this year's Dance Fiesta.

7:30-9 pm, $10

EVENTS

ADULTI-VERSE: PRIDE EDITION

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Expect drag bingo, button-making with the nonprofit the Mountain Center, DJ sets from Stereodirt and more in this month's no-kids-allowed night in the Multiverse.

6 pm, $39

CHESS & JAZZ CLUB

No Name Cinema

2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org

Chess playing and jazz listening. All ages and skill levels welcome, with free herbal tea on tap.

6-8 pm, free

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery

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

Learn how whiskey is made— from grain to glass—then check out the barrel aging room before finishing with a tasting. You’ll want to nab your reservation in advance.

3 pm, 5 pm, $20

FUN WITH FIREFIGHTERS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Certain SFR staffers can personally attest that getting to tour an actual fire engine earns instant preschool cred.

1-2 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952

Don't call it trivia.

7 pm, free

JAPANESE MASK-MAKING DEMONSTRATION

Museum of International Folk Art

706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1204

Noh mask maestro Ichiyu Terai chills in the atrium through Sunday to demonstrate his process and discuss (with help from an on-site translator) the similarities between his work and time travel. (See SFR Picks, page 15)

1-4 pm, free

SEEDS & SPROUTS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Julia Elgatian Romero leads little ones in a dirt-intensive garden exploration.

10:30-11:30 am, free

FOOD

FLIGHT NIGHT

Santa Fe Spirits Downtown

Tasting Room

308 Read St. (505) 780-5906

For those who prefer their tipsiness with a little less decision-making, every Thursday night offers the opportunity to sample four different mini cocktails instead of a single large one.

3-10pm, free

SUSHI POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Brent Jung brings you seafood fresh off the plane while vinyl DJs spin.

5-8 pm, free

MUSIC

ALEX MURZYN QUINTET Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Sax-centric jazz.

6 pm, free

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Old fashioned Americana and honky-tonk.

4-6 pm, free

BLAIR AND PHIL

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Singer-songwriters share original Americana.

7 pm, free

DAVID GEIST

Osteria D'Assisi

58 S Federal Place (505) 986-5858

Cabaret renditions of Broadway, pop and original tunes for voice and piano.

7-10 pm, $5

HALF BROKE HORSES

Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge

1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817

Two-step your way to honkytonk heaven.

7-10 pm, free

JOHN CAREY

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road (505) 428-0090

Harmonica-heavy blues, Americana and funk—the latter of which seems to be comparatively rare in the local live music scene at the moment.

2-5 pm, free

PAT MALONE

TerraCotta Wine Bistro

304 Johnson St.

(505) 989-1166

Solo acoustic guitar.

6-8 pm, free

SILVER TRIPLETS OF THE RIO HONDO

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Oregonian psychedelic western melodies.

7 pm, free

THE CALENDAR

THE ILLEGAL ALIENS

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Thrash punk with support from Nightsoil, Only Fables and Self Neglect. 21+, please.

7 pm, $10

THEATER

BLACK RANGE TRILOGY

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Three locally-set one acts— Esther and Leon, Coyote Acid and Sierra Obscura—following the same Nuevomexicano family from playwright John Macker.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

SWEAT

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

Robyn Rikoon directs Lynn Nottage's 2000 through 2008set drama about the deunionization of the Olstead factory in Pennsylvania. This script won a Pulitzer Prize!

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

WORKSHOP

BEGINNER FABRIC

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Can you hang? If not, this class'll 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 introductions and a period of gentle discussion of the assumptions and patterns that affect our lives.

7-8:30 pm, free

HATHA YOGA

The Spa at 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/2

ART OPENINGS

CAROLINE LIU + NATHAN BUDOFF: PERHAPS, AND NEVERMORE (OPENING)

Pie Projects

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

Paintings and drawings exploring the fragility of human interconnections through vivid color.

5-8 pm, free

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CIRO BATTILORO: SANITÀ (OPENING)

Foto Forum Santa Fe

1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582

The winner of the 2023 Foto Forum Santa Fe Photography award shares snapshots of life in Napoli.

5-7 pm, free

FIRST FRIDAY: INTO THE WOODS, IS PERPETUAL YOUTH

Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts

1590 Pacheco St., (505) 983-6372

High school students in the center's Hands-On Curatorial Program curate an exhibit of Coe collection pieces made from organic materials.

1-4 pm, free

GRANT JOHNSON:

UNDISCLOSED LOCATIONS (RECEPTION)

Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403

Surreal photographs of unnamed fragile environments.

5-7 pm, free

IRENE KUNG:

ROUGH, TOUGH AND MYSTIC (OPENING)

Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art

558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711

Large scale photographs of Yunnan and Tibet. (See SFR Picks, page 15)

5-7 pm, free

KEIKO SADAKANE: A MIRROR BOOK (OPENING)

Gebert Contemporary

558 Canyon Road, (505) 992-1100

Geometric plexiglass paintings, reflective love letters and more.

5-7 pm, free

OPENING CELEBRATION:

BRUCE NAUMAN AND RACHEL ROSE

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

In the latest of SITE Santa Fe's popping opening night parties, two video artists launch their exhibition with live music, free noshes and stiff drinks.

5-9 pm, free

TANIA DIBBS: MOMENTUM (OPENING)

Gaia Contemporary

225 Canyon Road, #6 (505) 501-0415

Abstracted botanical imagery.

5-7 pm, free

THIS ART IS YOUR ART (RECEPTION)

State Capitol Roundhouse

490 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 986-4589

Maggie Hanley curates a selection from the New Mexico Arts Art in Public Places permanent collection.

2-4 pm, free

WESLEY ANDEREGG:

CIRCO DE LAS ESTRELLAS BORRACHAS (OPENING)

Hecho Gallery

129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882

A self described "fictionalized psuedo-autobiography inspired by enchiladas," rendered in surreal ceramic figures.

5-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

FIRST FRIDAY GALLERY TALK

New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Photography curator Katherine Ware discusses the ongoing exhibit Manuel Carrillo: Mexican Modernist

5:30-7 pm, free

WINONA FOREVER SIGNING

Big Adventure Comics

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 992-8783

Stop by to chat with local author Sean Patrick Boyd—and snag yourself a signed copy of his comic adventure.  Noon-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. Swing by early for a pre-show dinner and drinks.

7:30 pm, $25-$45

EVENTS

ALL AGES CHESS

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

OK, we remember that knights move in an L shape, but what does the bishop do, again?

3-5 pm, free

AURA PHOTOS AND SOUND

HEALING

Dragonfly Transformations

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

Human atmospheres apparently like having their picture taken, too. And while you're waiting for Annette Gates to snap that photo, check out the collection of paintings by Erin Fore and the group meditation at 6 pm.

5-7 pm, free

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 let you do anything this late?

9 pm-1 am, free

DISTILLERY TOUR

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

Whiskey watching.

3 pm, 5 pm, $20

FINE ART FRIDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Craft paper food collages with folks from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. We’re not sure whether that means collages made of food photos or ones meant to represent food, but there’s only one way to find out.

2-4 pm, free

INDIGENOUS WAYS FESTIVAL

Railyard Park

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

While the festival kicked off earlier this year with performances by Talibah Begay and Robert Mirabal in May, tonight marks the start of its proper summertime offerings. Celebrate the sacred with a Pride-themed lineup of hip-hop from G-Precious, Lyla June and more.

5-9 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

You guys, we made a dumb joke about the Queen song “Bicycle Race” last week and now it plays in our heads every time we have to write this entry. Really shot ourselves in the foot with that one there.

10-11 am, $5

MAKE AND BELIEVE TIME

Rainbow Rainbow at Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Story time and art projects with librarian-selected children’s books. It seems like it would make sense to schedule this back to back with the “Open Space-Time” free art supply sessions, no?

10-11 am, free

MINIATURES PAINTING

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Gather weekly to paint tabletop game figurines with kindred nerdy spirits.

4-6:30 pm, free

NEW MEXICO COCKTAIL WEEK

Santa Fe, nmcocktailweek.com

More than 20 local restaurants, from Palace Prime to Paper Dosa present specialty cocktail (and accompanying culinary) offerings.

All Day, free

PALACE AVENUE FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5100

Stroll through several of the museum's neighboring art institutions, then collectively check out the new exhibit Enchantorama! New Mexico Magazine Turns 100

5-7 pm, free

POTTERY THROWDOWN

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

Enjoy live pottery demos, music, refreshments and more while getting your hands dirty.

5-8 pm, $25

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

Each staff or docent tour leader pays special attention to their own floral faves, so it's worth taking the tour more than once.  10 am, free

QUEER NIGHT

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Expect art and artisan goodies, live queer bands and plenty of kinfolk.

8 pm, $10-$20

REBECCA AND AMANDA LUCARIO

Andrea Fisher Fine Pottery

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

The mother/daughter Acoma Pueblo potter duo demonstrate their methods.

Noon-4 pm, free

ROADRUNNER RUNWAY’S FIRST ANNIVERSARY PARTY & PRIDE KICKOFF!

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Join Enby Emcee Adam Bomb in kicking off Pride month right: with a full lineup of performers from the drag burlesque troupe’s first year. Plus, check out the afterparty at Tumbleroot once the stage has cleared!

7 pm, $20-$60

SANTA FE WOMAN'S CLUB

POP-UP SALE

The Santa Fe Woman's Clubhouse 1616 Old Pecos Trail

Bring cash or checks and shop for furniture, art, antiques, clothing, collectibles and more to support the club's building fund.  8 am-2 pm, free

FILM

BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (WITH CRAFTS)

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Get on, like, the underground homo railroad. Plus, craft to help the Human Rights Alliance get ready for Pride!  3 pm, free

MOVIES IN THE PARK

Swan Park

Jaguar Drive and Hwy. 599

Tonight's double feature (always expect a kids' film first, with adult fare afterwards) is The Incredibles and Top Gun: Maverick

6 pm, free

MUSIC

ANDY MASON:

MUSIC FOR FAMILIES

Reunity Farms

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

Educational bilingual concerts with free admission for kids amidst the bucolic bliss of the local organic farm. 6 pm, $10

BILL HEARNE

Ahmyo River Gallery Wine Garden 652 Canyon Road (505) 820 0969

Americana and honky-tonk.

2-5 pm, free BRYAN HUTCHINSON

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

Chopin compositions for solo piano.  5:30 pm, free CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET

Los Magueyes

Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley (505) 992-0304

King Charles and occasional guests serenade diners with vocals and piano.  6 pm, free

Moments of tenderness from the heart of Napoli in Ciro Battiloro: Sanità, opening this week at Foto Forum Santa Fe.

CIRO BATTILORO

E-TURN-IT-Y:

EXHIBIT TAKEOVER

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Team Everything, B.A.B.E.S Collective, Mixxd and Jasmin

Williams keep you grooving into the wee hours.

10 pm-1:30 am, $30

FIRST FRIDAYS

The Matador

116 W San Francisco St. 984-5050

DJ LEKURONEKO spins the harder stuff.

10 pm, free

JEREMIAH GLAUSER

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Straight up country.

5 pm, free

MAX FLINN AND BRITTNEY BLAIR

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

A husband and wife Texas country duo.

8-10 pm, free

PAT MALONE

Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592 (505) 946-5700

Solo acoustic guitar.

7-9 pm, free

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.

6 pm, free

SILVER SKY BLUES

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

True blues.

8-11 pm, free

TERRITRUE AND SWEET SISTER

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Rhythm and blues.  8 pm, free

THEATER

BLACK RANGE TRILOGY

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601

Nuevomexicano family stories require more than one installment to properly tell. Kinda like

The Godfathers.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

SWEAT

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

What better time to catch the deunionization drama than right after the arrival of WGA strike rallies in Santa Fe and Albuquerque?

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

WORKSHOP

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.

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/3

ART OPENINGS

EVA NICOLAIT: LIFELINES (OPENING)

FOMA

333 Montezuma Ave. (505) 660-0121

Large scale abstractions on canvas.

3-5 pm, free

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART

CENTENNIAL BLOCK PARTY

Harwood Museum of Art

238 Ledoux St., Taos (575) 758-9826

Celebrate 100 years of the collection with performances, food vendors and creative projects.

11 am-4 pm, free

SOLARE: LETTING IN THE LIGHT (CLOSING RECEPTION)

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery

222 Delgado St. (928) 308-0319

Celebrating the exhibit of iconographically influenced wooden sculptures, digital prints and beyond with an artist appearance and live Bossa Nova provided by Nelson Denman and Petra.

5-8 pm, free

SUZANNE VILMAIN: I'VE GOT IT WRITTEN DOWN SOMEWHERE (OPENING)

Cafe Pasqual's Gallery

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

Ceramics, mixed media paper work, self-described "punk ikebana" and beyond. And punk ikebana is such a fascinating contradiction in terms we can’t help but be curious.

1-4 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 more.

9 am-2 pm, free

TIARA ROSE: COMPLEX MINIMALISM (OPENING)

Prism Arts & Other Fine Things

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

Intricate black and white ink works on paper detail interlocking circles, spirals and waves.

4-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

MEET THE AUTHORS

Garcia Street Books

376 Garcia St., Ste. B (505) 986-0151

Chill on the portal with Leslie Stahlhut (author of The Secret of the Old Cloche) Manfred Leuthard (Broken Arrow: A Nuke Goes Missing) and Diane Hatz (Rock Gods & Messy Monsters)

10 am-1 pm, free

VICENTE TODOLÍ AND TAYLOR WALSH

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

The two art historians gather to chat about Bruce Nauman in celebration of the Galisteo-based artist’s new solo exhibit.

2 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SPRING SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

Spanish dinner, dancing and drinks. All the D’s.   7:30 pm, $25-$45

EVENTS

CELEBRATE HAPPINESS ROADSHOW

Travel Bug Coffee Shop

839 Paseo de Peralta (505) 466-6500

Sandra McKnight and Todd Lowry share storytelling and original songs in tribute to joy. Call for more information.

5 pm, free

DISCO INFERNO: A RETRO DISCO PARTY

The Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Resurrect disco with retro music and an era-appropriate outfit contest.

8 pm-1 am, $15-$20

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery

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

Learn how whiskey is made— from grain to glass—then check out the barrel aging room before finishing with a tasting. Reservations required.

3 pm, 5 pm, $20

EL MUSEO CULTURAL MERCADO

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe

555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591

Browse your way through an eclectic collection of art and antiques.

9 am-4 pm, free

GARAGE SALE AND FRITO PIE EXTRAVAGANZA

Berardinelli McGee Event Center

1320 Luisa St. (505) 984-8600

Support Scott's House—the state's only free hospice, which is kind of bananas—with Youthworks Frito pies and abundant secondhand shopping.

8 am-4 pm, $8-$70

KARAOKE WITH CAKE

Cake’s Cafe

227 Galisteo St. (505) 303-4880

Keep the previous evening's Crash Karaoke festivities going at a second location—with slightly earlier hours and a wide selection of pastries. Although obviously the cakes are the real stars here.

7-11 pm, free LA TIENDA FLEA

La Tienda at Eldorado

7 Caliente Road

Imagine if you took all the individual yard sales happening on a given weekend and combined them into a single space.

8 am-12 pm, free

LENA STREET FIRST

SATURDAYS

Lena Street Lofts

1600 Lena St. (505) 984-1921

Check out the mini-district's best offerings of pottery, aromatherapy, craft coffee, contemporary art and beyond, along with live percussion performances from Torii Taiko.

3-6 pm, free

MARGARITA RAIL

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Tequila and live tunes for your train ride.

1:30 pm, $99

PRIDE MULTICULTURAL INTERFAITH CELEBRATION

St. Bede's Episcopal Church

550 W San Mateo (828) 329-5940

A volunteer-based performance fundraiser to benefit the Mountain Center, featuring live music and local faith communities.

2:30 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

We’re in the height of bee season, so go check out the garden’s visiting pollinators. Those fat bumblebee bodies are so heartwarming.

10 am, free

ROCK TIME + ARCHAEOLOGY

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Bring rocks for identification by the geologists hanging out on the spot, or listen to archaeologists chat about some of the local samples they've brought to share.

11 am-2 pm, free

SANTA FE SPRING FESTIVAL

El Rancho de las Golondrinas

334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261

Combining two long-running festivals—the late spring/early summer fiber and herb and lavender events—the folks at the ranch promise a weekend full of sheep shearing, fiber art demonstrations, live music, Pueblo pottery and, of course, relaxing aromas. (See SFR Picks, page 15)

10 am-4 pm, $6-$10

SCIENCE SATURDAYS

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

Check out the portable planetarium with Asis Gonzalez.

2-4 pm, free

SUMMERFEST

Pajarito Mountain

397 Camp May Road, Los Alamos (505) 662-5725

Head up the slopes for live music from Animal Parade, local brews from more than 10 breweries, a Strava race (we had to look it up, too) and more.

9 am-6 pm, $25

THE MET LIVE IN HD:

DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE

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

Just hearing the name "Papageno" gets that duet stuck in our heads. Pa- pa- paPapageno!

11 am, 6 pm, $22-$28

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THE CALENDAR

TOUR OF SAN JOSÉ DE GRACIA CHURCH AND PREVIEW OF ALABADO

San José de Gracia Church

2377-2381 NM-76, Las Trampas (505) 983-2567

Join Victor Goler and the Historic Santa Fe Foundation for a tour of the historic site and a sneak peek at the upcoming documentary detailing its surrounding community.

10:30 am, $45-$50

VÁMONOS HIKE: NATIONAL TRAILS DAY

Arroyo Hondo Open Space

Old Agua Fria Road E (833) 243-6033

Celebrate the holiday—which also happens to be Take a Kid Hiking Day—with a nature-centric scavenger hunt and ice cream on tap.

9-11 am, free

FILM

BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Same camp screener, this time sans crafting. Just remember: Cheers make girls do stupid cartwheels. Orgasms make people feel good.

3 pm, free

DAVE STEVENS: DRAWN TO PERFECTION (SCREENING AND Q&A)

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Filmmakers Kelvin Mao, Robert Windom and Rob Chatlin discuss their doc about the man who created The Rocketeer— and thereby indirectly introduced the world to Bettie Page. Attendees are encouraged to wear their best Rocketeer cosplay.

7 pm, $13-$26

SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Nostalgic cartoons (think Ninja Turtles, ThunderCats etc.) and cereal all day at the local fantasy and sci-fi specialty bookstore. Pajamas highly encouraged.

11 am-7 pm, free

MUSIC

BOB MAUS

Inn & Spa at Loretto

211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-5531

Piano and voice takes on blues and soul classics.

6-9 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET

Los Magueyes

Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley (505) 992-0304

King Charles and occasional guests serenade diners with vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

DIRTY BROWN JUG BAND

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Twang-infused rock.

3 pm, free

DISCOVERING THE MUSIC OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403

Oliver Prezant and associates violinist Carla Kountoupes, clarinetist Jerry Weimer and cellist Katie Harlow improvise in response to Grant Johnson's current exhibit of landscape photography. (See SFR Picks, page 15)

2-3:30 pm, free

FELIX Y LOS GATOS

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

Self-described "green chile gumbo blues."

8-11 pm, free

FREDDIE SCHWARTZ

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road (505) 428-0090

Classic rock from a New Orleans native.

2-5 pm, free

HOSIE

GHOST

2889 Trades West Road

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Albuquerque experimental folk with support from Tarantula Hawk and The Little Tulips.

7 pm, $10-$15 suggested

PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN

La Boca (Taberna Location)

125 Lincoln Ave. (505) 988-7102

An evening of plucking for acoustic guitar and bass from two fixtures of the local scene.

7-9 pm, free

RAINBOW SITAR

SOUNDBATH

ELECTRA Gallery

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

Joseph Angelo plays sitar among the prisms in conjunction with the ongoing show Spectra: The Rainbow in Art The organizer describes the event as BYOB: bring your own blanket.

5 pm, $15

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

A combination of rehearsed and improvised jazz with occasional guest performers.

6 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

STANLIE KEE AND STEP IN Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Traditional blues.

1-3 pm, free

STEVE POSTELL AND JAMES RAYMOND

GiG Performance Space

1808 Second St. gigsantafe.com

Storytelling songs for guitar, piano and voice from the man who wrote the soundtrack to Dying to Know and David Crosby’s son, respectively.

7:30 pm, $25

SUMMER CONCERTS

SOUTHSIDE: TWIN FIDDLES

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

Karina Wilson and Jordan Wax of Lone Piñon bring the strings.

1 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

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

Let the soothing sound of the rails rock you into a post-workweek stupor.

7:15 pm, $109-$129

TOAD THE WET SPROCKET & MARCY PLAYGROUND

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

Intensely ‘90s alternative rock.

8 pm, $49-$69

TRINITY SOUL

Boxcar

530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222

Rock, reggae and funk named after Japanese anime.

8:30 pm, free

WARM AIRS WHISPERING

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

Tri-M Productions presents a classical vocal recital featuring Ruby Nightingale and Elizebeth Barnes, accompanied by Deborah Wagner on piano and Amy Huzjak on cello.

2 pm, $20

WOODWIND IMMERSION

Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel 50 Mt. Carmel Road (505) 988-1975

The New Mexico Performing Arts Society presents an evening of breath control dependent melodies.

6 pm, $36-$50

THEATER

BLACK RANGE TRILOGY

Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Think of the three one-act structure as the theatrical equivalent of binge watching a few episodes of a 30-minute episodic.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

SWEAT

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

If you too caught last year’s staging of The Effect and became immediately obsessed with the acting talents of JuanAndres Apodaca, he’s back in town starring as Oscar.

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

WORKSHOP

COMMUNITY ART

WORKSHOP

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road

(505) 992-2588

Stay as short or as long as you'd like to work on drawings, puppets banners and more for a June procession honoring Rio Chiquito—the river which flowed where Water Street now stands.

11 am-3 pm, free

INTRO TO QUILTING:

MUG RUGS

Hacer Santa Fe

311 Montezuma Ave.

(505) 467-8174

A low-stakes way to explore quilting while making a miniature blankie for your favorite cup.

1 pm, $55

POETRY WORKSHOP SERIES

Santa Fe Public Library

Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive

(505) 955-2820

Hone your word craft with Darryl Lorenzo Wellington in his final month as the city's poet laureate.

11 am, free

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

The Spa at Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592

(505) 946-5700

Elementally focused yoga designed to open (and, apparently, strengthen) chakras. Think of it as a kind of physiospiritual benchpress routine.

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

SUN/4

ART OPENINGS

RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET

Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Buy fine art and crafts directly from local creators. Picture goat milk soap, fresh lavender and the like.

10 am-3 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

GALLERY TALK

Museum of International Folk Art

706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1204

John Paul Granillo discusses his personal experiences with art in incarceration, as well as his pieces in the ongoing exhibit

Between the Lines: Prison Art and Advocacy

2-3 pm, free

NATURE POETS

HERE Gallery

213 E. Marcy St. (562) 243-6148

Local wordsmiths Kyce Bello (author of Refugia) and Mike Burwell (of Cartography of Water) read their latest lines in the gallery.

2-3 pm, free

EVENTS

EL MUSEO CULTURAL

MERCADO

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe

555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591

An eclectic collection of locally-sourced art and antiques.

10 am-4 pm, free

FAMILY ART MAKING

New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Explore the galleries with exhibit-inspired craft activities and an abundance of free snacks.

10 am-noon, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery

112 W San Francisco St. (505) 983-0134

Trivia promising to cover everything "from Hungary to The Hunger Games." We can only speculate about what other alphabetically linked concepts might come up.

7-9 pm, free

OPEN MIC

Honeymoon Brewery

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

Let the hard kombucha fuel you through any lingering stage fright. All mediums are encouraged, and you may even catch a few of the bartenders hopping up to take the stage.

6:30 pm, free

OPEN MIC JAZZ

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Join High City Jazz Quartet onstage and bring your dormant Billie Holiday or Chet Baker dreams to life.

5-7 pm, free

POETRY READING

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

This week’s free poetry offerings include musings and metaphors from Vijali Hamilton and Jane Lipman.

5 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

And while we’re on the subject of pollinators, don’t forget that uglier bugs—wasps, hornets and even some spiders—are still doing important horticultural work out there, too, even if you may not be so enthusiastic about hanging with them.

10 am, free

SANTA FE SPRING FESTIVAL

El Rancho de las Golondrinas

334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261

Have y’all been missing the ranch during its off-season, too? So many childhood memories of running around the old water mill. And the sword swallowers! (See SFR Picks, page 15) 10 am-4 pm, $6-$10

SOL SUNDAYS FESTIVAL: JAM ON IT!

Santa Fe Railyard

332 Read St., linktr.ee/solsundays

Vital Spaces, Wise Fool and many other local organizations partner for a day full of breakdance battles, group yoga and sound baths, local and national DJs and much more.

Noon-8 pm, free

SUMMER SUNDAYS

HAPPY HOUR

Tumbleroot Pottery Pub

135 W. Palace Ave. (505) 982-4711

In addition to the typical drink discounts, expect price cuts on clay and live jazz jamming from 1-3 pm.

11 am-4 pm, free

THE HORSE SHELTER

ANNUAL AUCTION & LUNCHEON

The Horse Shelter

100AB Old Cash Ranch Road (505) 471-6179

Chow down on food provided by Restaurant Martin, The Ranch House and Rustica while bidding on 700 silent auction items to benefit the horses wandering the ranch.

11 am-3 pm, $85

FILM

THE FILMS OF HARRY SMITH

No Name Cinema

2013 Pinon St., nonamecinema.org

Hand painted abstract works and animation from the avant-garde pioneer/neo-Gnostic bishop, with live musical accompaniment. Presented in partnership with the Harry Smith Archives.

7 pm, $5-$15 suggested

FOOD

COCKTAILS & CULTURE

MIXOLOGY SEMINARS

Sunset Terrace

112 W San Francisco, Ste. 310 (505) 690-0738 nmcocktailweek.com

A full day of booze education, presented as part of Cocktail Week. Check the website for the complete list of class offerings. 21+, obviously.

9 am-5 pm, $35-$45

MUSIC

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse

414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Master pianist Montgomery performs in the President's Room.

6 pm, free

GENE CORBIN

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Quintessential Americana.

1 pm, free

HIGH DESERT PLAYBOYS

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Albuquerque bluegrass and Americana.

3 pm, free

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Santa Fe Spring Festival Featuring Herb &

Lavender

June 3–4 10 am–4 pm

Celebrate Spring with Sheep Shearing, Fiber Arts, Live Entertainment, and All Things Lavender

In proud partnership with SWAIA, we will honor the legacy of the land and feature traditional pottery, dance, and food from San Ildefonso Pueblo. all tickets must be purchased online

Partially funded by the city of Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers’ Tax, County of Santa Fe Lodgers’ Tax, and New Mexico Arts.

JAZZ BRUNCH

Bishop's Lodge

Auberge Resorts Collection

1297 Bishops Lodge Road

(888) 741-0480

The Pat Malone Trio accompanies your meal.

11:30 am-2:30 pm, free

JOE WEST AND FRIENDS

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Melodic singer-songwriter.

12-3 pm, free

SILVER MOVIE AND THE ROSWELLS

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Folk rock and avant-pop.

7-9 pm, free

SPRING CONCERT

Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

131 Cathedral Place (505) 982-5619

The cathedral’s bell choir joins forces with Santa Fe Flutes.

7-9 pm, free

SUMMER SUNDAY

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Live music, food truck goodies, mezcal cocktails and local artisan shopping. Oh yeah—and that elusive, perfectly chewy Tender Fire pizza. We dream of that blue mosaic-covered portable oven.

3-7 pm, free

SUNDAY SWING

Second Street Brewery

(Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068

Jive and jam with the folks from the Basilaris Trio.

1 pm, free

THEATER

BLACK RANGE TRILOGY

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

A New Mexican family faces internal and external threats— both from the law and from their blood relatives.

2 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP CREATIVE EXPRESSION FOR TEACHERS

ELECTRA Gallery

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

Sonia Florentino offers exercises for teachers to renew their energy through visual art.

1 pm, $125

CROCHET CLASS: GRANNY SQUARES

Hacer Santa Fe 311 Montezuma Ave. (505) 467-8174

An opportunity for those who already know basic crochet stitches to expand into patch-making.  1 pm, $45

HEART MATTERS: A MOVEMENT SEMINAR WITH ZULEIKHA Online tickettailor.com/events/zuleikha/ Explore dance as a mode of healing. Admission by suggested donation. Proceeds benefit The Storydancer Project.

9-11 am, $45

KIDS' SOCIAL DANCE

Dance Station

Solana Center

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

Ballroom, latin and swing for kiddos ages 7-11.

12:45-1:30 pm, $10

SUNDAYS WITH GESHE LA

Thubten Norbu Ling

Buddhist Center

130 Rabbit Road, (505) 660-7056

Geshe Sherab discusses Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment.

10 am, free

MON/5

BOOKS/LECTURES

THE BALLAD OF PLÁCIDA ROMERO

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

Author Bob Roland discusses his new local history book. Presented by Southwest Seminars.

6 pm, $20

EVENTS

FREE KIDS SING-ALONG

Queen Bee Music Association

1596 Pacheco St. (505) 278-0012

Another opportunity to get those tiny hands clapping to basic beats. We don’t know the science, but starting music education young has to have some kind of fancy developmental benefits, right?

10:30-11:15 am, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

There goes the little Freddie Mercury in our heads again, ‘80s mustache and all...

10-11 am, $5

OPEN MIC WITH CAKE

Cake’s Cafe

227 Galisteo St. (505) 303-4880

All mediums welcome—visual artists are invited to bring pieces to share, too.

5:30-8 pm, free

FILM

VIDEO LIBRARY CLUB

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Every Monday evening Lisa from Video Library (with assistance from her devotees) picks a film from her shelves—ranging from obscure cult flicks to blockbuster classics—to share on the big screen.

6:30 pm, free

MUSIC

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse

414 Old Santa Fe Trail

(505) 955-0765

Master pianist Montgomery presides over the keys in the President's Room.

6 pm, free

OSCAR BUTLER

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Easy listening covers and gentle acoustic originals.

4-6 pm, free

QUEER NIGHT

La Reina

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road

(505) 982-1931

It's kind of tragic that we don't have a full-on queer bar in Santa Fe, but thank goodness La Reina's got our backs on Monday nights. A portion of sales from the nightly cocktail special go to the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico.

5-11 pm, free

WORKSHOP

JUGGLING AND UNICYCLING

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Learn everything from the basics of one-wheel riding to passing and advanced juggling patterns.

7:30-9 pm, $18-$22

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

The Spa at Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592 (505) 946-5700

Get those chakras of yours properly opened and saying ‘ah.’

5:30-6:30 pm, $18-$90

TEEN/TWEEN AERIALS WITH KRISTEN

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

For all those 11-15 who are curious about acrobatics, this class offers the opportunity to explore trapeze, lyra, fabric and rope.

5:15-6:15 pm, $19-$24

TUE/6

BOOKS/LECTURES

CYNTHIA SYLVESTER: THE HALF-WHITE ALBUM Collected Works

Bookstore and Coffeehouse

202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226

Poet Tina Carlson joins Sylvester to discuss her debut collection narrating the stories of 10 concerts across Dinétah and Albuquerque.

6 pm, free

EVENTS

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Boese Brothers Brewpub 145 Central Park Square, Los Alamos (505) 500-8325

A British-style pub quiz.

8-10 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Santa Fe Brewing Company

35 Fire Place (505) 424-3333

We’ll give you one more warning—keep the word “trivia” out of your mouth.

7 pm, free

OPEN MIC POETRY AND MUSIC

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Be a modern-day bard for your fellow Santa Feans.

8 pm, free

SANTA FE FARMERS’ MARKET

INSTITUTE TOURS

Santa Fe Railyard

332 Read St. bit.ly/45BSxgt

Enjoy communal breakfast in the Market Pavilion, discussions of the institute's work and a guided tour of the market. Register in advance.

9 am, free

VÁMONOS SANTA FE WALK

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Stroll the Southside's Arroyo Chamiso trail.

6 pm, free

FOOD

SANTA FE FARMERS' TUESDAY MARKET

Farmers Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

A truly radishing selection of locally grown (and made) goods.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC

RANDY MULKEY

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

Singer-songwriter.

4-6 pm, free

WORKSHOP

AERIAL FABRIC CLASS

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road

(505) 992-2588

Use silks to approach the ceiling.

10:30 am-noon, $23-$28

ARTS ALIVE!

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

Bring an old T-shirt to screen print with Jacob Meders (Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria/Maidu).

10 am-2 pm, free

BEGINNER ROPES WITH CAREY

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Make like a spider climbing back to your web.

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

DEVELOPING INNER

STRENGTH AND JOY

Santa Fe Women's Club

1616 Old Pecos Trail

Find enthusiasm for meditation with this ongoing series. Today's session focuses on overcoming discouragement.

6-7:30 pm, $10

FAMILY CRAFTERNOON

La Farge Library

1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292

Create paper flowers to brighten the days of local senior citizens. Adorable.

3:30 pm, free

HATHA YOGA

The Spa at Four Seasons Rancho Encantado 198 NM-592 (505) 946-5700

We hate being told to breathe into a stretch, but that’s kind of the name of the hatha game.

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

QUEER BURLESQUE WITH AUDREY

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Each class both teaches and critically examines an element of a burlesque act: costuming, teasing off clothes, walking the stage or presenting a persona.

7:30-9:30 pm, $18-$22

‘Oh, yeah, Matt King did that kind of thing for so many people!’ And he did. He helped so many people find their creativity and their spark. This is literally just the product of my guts. This is what I had to do in order to live. I was really fucking hanging on there wanting to give up and die—the mental health struggle, the pandemic; music was the only thing that kept me going. I was just making the things based on my heartbreak, my heartache, my life. Words and melodies. My brain is always moving. I had all this time and I spent it swimming in sound. The songs became my children and I just shepherded them. I love words, I love poetry, I try to find the North Star in the story within the song. Oftentimes, it reveals itself to me. I’m having a lot of fun doing that.

ROCK

Though Santa Fe-based musician Lyra Muse has a degree in violin from Ohio State University in her home state and an enduring thirst for the mechanics of music, the songs from her forthcoming debut solo EP, Grounded, are really more about experimentation and feel. Song elements come to her, she says, and through a combination of instrumentation and computer witchery, she brings them to a place that’s a little bit goth, a little bit dancey and a whole lot vulnerable. It’s a long story that brought Muse from Ohio to Santa Fe, but the broad strokes involve pianos and violins, schooling, travel to Japan, busking, college audio classes, relocation to New Mexico in 2019 and a sort of musical partnership with late Meow Wolf co-founder Matt King that ignited in Muse a borderline need to create. Through the pandemic, Muse honed her sound into a semi-dark and introspective melange of looped effects and tracks, numerous pedals and vocals, and she’s finally ready to release to the public on Friday, June 2 (lyramuse.bandcamp.com). We stopped by Muse’s home studio to chat. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. (Alex

De Vore)

Let’s talk about the EP. I want to say it’s a concept piece, is that close? It’s a smorgasbord. Yeah. A smorgasbord of the...styles that I’ve done, I guess. And it’s definitely a collection of all the songs [I’ve written] since I started making this music in November of 2019—since I reconnected with music. The pandemic was absolutely the thing that gave [me] the time, the space, the energy to do it, and being able to discover that with someone...everyone will say,

As a trained musician, is it at all hard for you to be more experimental rather than following the blueprint? This music is very different from what I was doing in high school, what I was doing in college, but it’s related. I was a huge anime nerd and started taking piano lessons...started printing out sheet music from opening theme music from video games and anime and learning them, but I don’t anymore because it’s too constricting. All my songs have...like, you can pick out motifs or whatever you want and I can talk about my classical training, but all that is is knowing a bunch of jargon. To answer your question, no. I know how it works, but I don’t think I know everything. The music is kind of alive and it’s not up to me sometimes. The music is natural, and there is, in a sense, how I studied, but this is about excavating. I want to say that it’s so cliche, but it’s excavating my soul. You’re connecting to something when you’re making music and I like not having sheet music. I do it a little differently every time.

You’re writing about some tough things. Is putting these songs out like releasing them emotionally in a way? I think so. I mean, in a way, yeah. I’m still playing them live and I find myself singing them to myself sometimes. I’m finding balance. Like, right now I have a song and it’s just piano and voice, I don’t even need to record anything. But then I have all these layers that keep getting added on the longer the song’s alive. In the process of finally releasing them, that is officially a documentation I’ve done that. That being said, playing live is where the song can remain alive.

With Musician Lyra Muse ALEX DE VORE

Bring on the Bake

VORE

Baked & Brew opens in June and you’re gonna want in on that

Jambo, Jambo Bobcat Bite

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Mayhap as you’ve sojourned down Cerrillos Road in recent times you’ve noticed how the former Sweet Motor Cars car lot on Cerrillos Road (right where Baca Street transforms into Monterey Drive) has seen some significant updates. The exterior of the building that once housed admin offices and a garage is now a lovely shade of deep blue with white trim; if the garage door is down, you’ve likely seen the new logo, too—a combination of coffee beans and whisks forming what looks almost like a sun encircled with bold letters. They spell it out plainly: Baked & Brew (1310 Cerrillos Road, (505) 954-1346) will soon be here, and for folks in search of sweet and savory baked goods, coffee you won’t find anyplace else and a grab ’n’ go aesthetic that encompasses a drive-thru, your day has come.

Baked & Brew is a dream come true for owners/pastry chefs/bakers/best buds Nicole Appels and Kate Holland. If you’d walked into the space last week, chances are you’d have seen Holland’s mother Margie working with power tools and helping to build furniture. As Appels and Holland lead me around the soon-to-open bakery, they proudly point out a table that will soon house Baked & Brew’s pointof-sale system; the spot where ovens and such will go into a room on one side; a small smattering of tables that will occupy the former garage; a lovely, tiny park outside where folks can enjoy their treats. As we sit in the area that will soon be the main kitchen, Margie practices cutting concentric circles in wood with power tools in the next room while Holland and Appels explain their vision. The vibe is almost electric.

By the time this issue of SFR reaches your hands, however, things will have likely phased from in-flux to almost complete. Appels and Holland say they’re aiming for a June 15 opening date, and I hope they can make it work as I straight

up want a breakfast sandwich and/or some kind of tart. Let’s get this show on the road, Baked & Brew—this is serious business.

Appels and Holland met in Napa, California, some years ago while working for Solage, a hotel from the Auberge Resorts Collection (that’s the same folks who run Bishop’s Lodge, btw). They hit it off almost immediately and today describe the friendship as something more than your average two-buddies outfit. Holland was there when Appels had her son; they’re roommates; they finish each other’s sentences. Back in their Napa days, however, all that was a far-off dream, but once each found out the other longed to open a bakery someday—once they survived the Napa fires of 2020 and relocated to Santa Fe—the plan started to click. At first, Holland worked at Bishop’s Lodge and Appels worked at The Compound. And though each can make just about any baked good you can imagine (and plenty you might not), the idea formed around Appels focusing on sweet pastries and treats and Holland leaning toward savory breads, croissants and such. Cut to today in Santa Fe, and they’re poised to offer a Midtown quick stop solution to where the heck someone gets a non-sit-down bite in the area.

“We just got our air horn today,” Holland explains of the drive-thru equipment that will notify workers. “People will drive over it outside, then someone will come out and grab their order.”

The drive-thru creates reason enough alone to celebrate, but Appels’ and Holland’s bonafides are no joke, either. Appels trained at Capetown, South Africa’s Granger Hotel School, Holland with the Art Institute of Atlanta’s culinary program. Each focused on pastry, but still has their specialties. Appels, for example, notes there’s no one item she considers her single best offering, but she might still make a South African malva pudding at some point. Holland, meanwhile, is all about bread—she might even make English muffins for breakfast sandwiches when the time comes. Both have plans to circumvent the legendarily tricky altitude when it comes to Santa Fe baking, as well, and coffee from Arizona’s Passport Coffee & Tea will add another high-quality caffeine option to the local landscape.

“And I just love being in the kitchen,” Appels explains. “I like experimenting with new ingredients and flavors and so forth.”

That’s good news, because most of us here want to try those things.

Years ago, when I was but a lad growing up at the ass-end of Nine Mile Road outside Santa Fe, special nights meant picking up burgers for the family from Bobcat Bite. If you’re from around here, you surely know the story of Bonnie and John Eckre—how they served up the best burgers in all the land but were forced out of their original location on Old Las Vegas Highway after years of being the kindest people ever. The Eckres would re-open as Santa Fe Bite, first downtown and then in Midtown Santa Fe, but something about losing that tiny little lunch counter and handful of tables out there really stung for locals. In February, the Eckres sold the business to new owners Armando Rivas and Angela Mason and are still, last I heard, on the staff. Santa Fe Bite continues to be a solid establishment with a fantastic menu and plenty of charm to boot, but for the diehards among us, there’s actually a place you can go to get nearly the exact same taste of the old days Bobcat Bite burger, and it might be the last place you’d think to look—the original location.

See, around the first of the year, chef Ahmed Obo of celebrated Midtown Afro-Caribbean joint Jambo took over the original Bobcat Bite location way out on Old Las Vegas Highway for his new-ish eatery, Jambo Bobcat Bite (418 Old Las Vegas Hwy., (505) 467-8654). Roughly a year earlier, previous owners and restauranteurs Jimmy and Jennifer Day had closed down their own take on the restaurant after fewer than six months in business. Obo, however—who reportedly approached the Eckres for their blessing in taking over the space—knew he could nail it. And so he has.

A recent visit came with new discoveries for this longtime fan. Not only has the space tripled in size following renovations from the Days, but Obo has crafted a sort of food paradise for all palates. And though myself and a dining companion tragically missed the brunch we so desperately sought (service for that stuff stops at 11 am), I finally had the chance to sample Obo’s take on the classic Bobcat green chile cheeseburger. And you know what? No notes. It tastes precisely how I remembered it in every way, from the bun to the chile/cheese ratio to the thick, grilled patty. My com panion chose the falafel burger and described it as “amaz ingly delicious.” The one downside? Real ones will miss those Eckre homefries. Of course, it’s easy to get over to Santa Fe Bite, where the homefries live on. In fact, having two places continuing the legacy of John Eckres’ undefeated burger? A huge win for all.

Kate Holland (left) and Nicole Appels are opening the drive-thru/grab ’n’ go bakery of your dreams in Midtown. Now bring on the treats!

ALEX DE

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Solid Gold

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Over the past several weeks, celebrated local chef and perennial SFR fave Hue-Chan Karels has been hosting a series of private invite-only tasting dinners in her Open Kitchen eatery/educational space at the corner of Don Gaspar Avenue and West Alameda Street. It’s been a twopronged process through which Karels and her up-and-coming executive chef Erica Tai can not only fine-tune a menu, but also iron out the kinks and see what works for different kinds of diners, how much those diners are willing to spend, etc.

Set against the more commonplace secrecy that so many not-yet-open restaurants insist upon, the tasting dinners are not only a refreshingly transparent glimpse into the Herculean efforts required to open a restaurant—they’ve managed to make everyone from notable local chefs to everyday food fans take notice and feel like they’ve had a hand in the process. When all is said and done, Karels and Tai will open a new restaurant dubbed Alkeme (227 Don Gaspar Ave., (202) 285-9840), one steeped in Open Kitchen’s longstanding mission to highlight a culture-to-table movement that encompasses elements of multiple Asian cuisines. We’ve never had anything quite like it in Santa Fe, and if a recent evening spent sampling the goods along with a slew of Japanese whiskeys that could potentially end up on the menu offers any indication, diners are ready for precisely what Karels and Tai have to offer. They have crafted some bonkers-good plates.

“I’ve been so anxious about how I can

translate the tastes [of various cultures] to somebody else,” Karels tells SFR by phone some days after the tasting. “I’m the chef, the chief architect of the menu, but I need someone to execute...and Erica has worked with me seamlessly for three-plus years. She gets it, she’s really honed her pallet.”

Having tasted the food, that feels like an understatement. Of course, Tai and Karels have worked together closely through the pandemic and know each other’s rhythms well by now. Tai came to Karels through the Santa Fe Community College’s culinary program; they’ve been inseparable since and Tai’s chops have only grown in the interim. Together, they spin stone-cold magic, according to both locals who’ve attended any of the recent tasting dinners and to our own sampling. And though there are still some small touches that need to happen before Karels and Tai open in earnest next month (they’re aiming for middle of June pending the liquor license), things are already exciting—Alkeme is fire.

We began with a spiced popcorn amuse, one that merged a subtle sweetness with a savory element that once again proves salty and sweet in the same bite just plain works. Puffed rice interspersed throughout the amuse also added a chewy counterpoint to the crisp of the popcorn. Traveling the room and explaining the thought behind it, Karels noted that the idea is simply to pique interest and to wake up the palate. It worked, and by

the time our second course arrived, we were prepared. That it happened to be a banh nam (think rice dumpling) crafted like a tamale and steamed with banana leaves in place of corn husks didn’t hurt, of course, and it showcased not only Karels’ knack for creativity, but for unexpected fusiony takes on disparate dishes. The shrimp and pork filling were executed brilliantly by Tai, too, and added just the right level of texture to the otherwise soft yet flavorful dumpling/tamale.

Each item contained something surprising that ultimately felt like the perfect choice once it hit the tongue; like when someone tells you something you should’ve known all along. The true star of the night, however, was the Korean-inspired beef short ribs served over sweet potato noodles. Emerging from the kitchen, Tai explained how sweet potato noodles don’t bear the flavor of the tasty root but are rather instrumental in creating the type of noodle that absorbs and delivers the other flavors of a dish. The meat was as tender and melty as can be, and Tai noted how beef in Korea was formerly something more for the upper class or the most special of occasions, which made it feel enjoyably sinful, splurgy in a way. Granted, one doesn’t always get an expertly cooked piece of beef conceived by not one but two chefs at the top of their games.

We capped the night with a Vietnamese coffee flan dessert that could be one of the more thoughtful treats on a local menu right now—like creme brulee, but with rich coffee flavors and milky, creamy goodness.

Further along, we sampled a shrimp mousse served on sugarcane with vermicelli that circumvented the familiar shrimp feel and flavor for something far more dense and nuanced, a Taiwanese-style braised pork belly served with apple and a bite of candied kumquat—that last element felt brilliant as the small citrus explosion drew out a breadth of flavors from the pork—as well as an appetizer of puffy yet crispy shrimp chips served with a trio of peanut, dill and spicy sauces.

And so the process continues, at least until Alkeme opens to the public in June. As a bastion for myriad dishes culled from numerous cultures, it has all the promise in the world. As an almost culinary education, it feels deeper than getting a plate of food about which one never thinks another thought. Karels and company asked tasting participants to make notes on a menu, including suggesting appropriate price, but I’d frankly pay anything for another shot at that pork belly.

“Sharing, expanding the horizons of people’s understanding for what Vietnamese and Asian foods can be is what it’s all about,” Karels adds. “Hence the concept of culture to table. We really want to bring that awareness with every bite.”

Trust us—the beef short ribs inspired by Korean-style cooking is just one of the dishes to die for at soon-to-open Alkeme.

Open Kitchen enters its mega-restaurant era with Alkeme

You Hurt My Feelings Review

Middle age and lying in filmmaker Nicole Holofcener’s newest

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

A stirring cast of relatable characters—for middle aged folks, anyway—rallies around veteran comic talent Julia Louis-Dreyfus in You Hurt My Feelings, director/writer Nicole Holofcener’s ode to aging, identity and the little white lies we tell our loved ones. Feelings is a smart yet simple tale told well, an homage to writing, really, both in how it portrays Louis-Dreyfus’ sometimes acerbic author, Beth, and in how the film itself bets big and mostly wins on its dialogue and actors.

We join our hero during the creation of her second book, her first take on fiction. Beth’s debut, a memoir built around her verbally abusive father, did OK, we’re repeatedly told. The new one, however, has fallen victim to overthought and way too many drafts. She works as a writing teacher at New York City’s New School, and between her agent’s tepid response to her new work and a classroom full of students who never bothered to read her first, Beth is fragile enough as it is, but then overhears her husband Don, a therapist who fears he’s losing his edge (Game of Thrones’ Tobias Menzies),

Full disclosure? I’ve only seen the first Fast and/or Furious movie from 2001, but I must ask—what the hell happened with this series since then? Like, what in the emmer-effing, essing, effing eff happened? I thought these movies were about a cop who got Point Break’d by a car thief/mechanic and then they stole cars and stuff while racing? That first one was fun, even, but it turns out in Fast X from director Louis Leterrier— whom you likely know from movies like Now You See Me and The Transporter—the principal characters from eight movies I didn’t see now work for some kind of clandestine agency (called, get this, The Agency) and the things they must do are so absurdly over-the-top in the least fun ways that...y’know what? We should’ve sent a fan to review this, maybe.

In Fast X, Dom Toretto (a particularly wooden Vin Diesel) and the gang (people, I assume, from previous Fast films, such as Michelle Rodriguez and Charlize Theron) run afoul of this guy Dante (Jason Momoa, whose portrayal of mental illness is disappointing and lazily based in disaffected Joker-esque erraticisms) whose father they killed in a previous movie. He’s back now and attacks Dom’s family, which is the one thing everyone knows Dom hates. So the crew jetsets around the planet hacking stuff and driving fast and firing guns and driving some more until your head spins. Then Brie Larson appears to say, “You’ll never get away with this, bad guys!” followed by John Cena (who is way too good an actor to do this crap) and Jason Statham, furrowed brow and all (he belongs here).

say he just plain doesn’t like it.

Calamity ensues as Beth reels while wondering how her husband can possibly respect her if he doesn’t respect her work. Meanwhile, her sister (the ever-solid Michaela Watkins) navigates similar waters at home as her would-be actor husband grapples with his own demons surrounding aging, career and so forth. Without ever saying it out loud, Holofcener gracefully points out that terrifying and humiliating moment that eventually comes for folks who live long enough—the world went and got all screwy when we weren’t looking, now it might leave us behind.

Holofcener (Enough Said) excels at dialogue and thematics in Feelings and crafts the sort of small yet painfully pressing interpersonal exchanges that define ourselves and our relationships. Does lying about how much we enjoy our loved ones’ work or creative endeavors express disrespect, or is it more about supporting them when they need it most? We all place

Then a car falls out of a plane. Then you nod off in the theater for about 15 minutes, but come to just in time for the cliffhanger conclusion you don’t care about but that makes you wonder if you’ll ever see the sun again. Then you’ll wish the new Spider-Man cartoon had come out this weekend like you’d thought it would. Anyway, Fast X is stupid, even by the specially-made extra low bar by which these films deserve to be evaluated; and it is loooong. Too long. It’s long and stupid and bad. It’s not even fun in an escapist way like John Wick, nor bombastic like the recent and pretty enjoyable Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Instead, it’s written badly (thanks for nothing Dan Mazeau, Justin Lin and Gary Scott Thompson), its actors act badly (all the lines are like, “I took him down and I’ll take you down!” or, like, “I did it to protect you, John Cena’s nephew!”), its music and cinematography are forgettable and even its car-fu-ballet nonsense that finds people driving up walls or out-driving explosions or turning kayaks into planes (not kidding) plays so terribly that you almost want to call up Rita Moreno and Helen Mirren (they’re both in this thing somehow!) and ask them if the producers just straight up drove dump trucks full of money to their houses.

C’mon Vin Diesel, you’re Groot, bro. Try a little, jeeze. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 141 min.

BLACKBERRY

+ BARUCHEL IS EXCELLENT

- HOWERTON IS FORGETTABLE; REMINDS US PHONES ARE PRISONS

Uh-oh, friends and cinephiles, it seems we have unwittingly wandered into the timeline wherein

little pressures on those around us every single day, but how do those things come out in the long run? Louis-Dreyfus masterfully glides through her character’s foibles and even her pettier moments, but small triumphs of motherhood, spousal life and self-reflection propel her to a greater level of understanding for the people around her even as she hides a competitor’s book beneath her own at the neighborhood book shop, even as she wrestles existentially with her 20-something son (Owen Teague). This one might not light up the box office with millions of adoring fans, but if You Hurt My Feelings is some sort of new beginning for the NYC-based warts-and-all rom-com, it’s a good start.

YOU HURT MY FEELINGS

Directed by Holofcener

With Louis-Dreyfus, Menzies, Watkins and Teague Violet Crown, R, 93 min.

filmmakers pump out business-glory prattle like the one about the Nike shoe guys and the other one about the janitor guy who invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (who, the Los Angeles Times reports, did not actually invent said Cheetos). One could easily argue such films fan the flames of today’s sick brand worship. And though BlackBerry from writer/director Matt Johnson seemingly straddles the style, another take ultimately emerges: Progress ain’t pretty and people are jerks.

BlackBerry recounts the rise of Canada’s Research in Motion, the company founded by nerds who created the first-ever smartphones in the 1990s. Of course, by today’s standards, BlackBerrys would be woefully out of date, but there once was a time when an email and instant messaging machine that could also phone was the height of amazing in the business and private sectors. Most of our phone habits were born of BlackBerry and, according to the movie, RIM controlled nearly half of the entire cellphone market at one point. Johnson’s film looks at how the company got there, how its founders were ill-suited to compete in a rapidly evolving marketplace and how the iPhone singularly crushed practically all competitors shortly after its 2007 first-gen launch.

Here the inimitable and underrated Jay Baruchel (Man Seeking Woman—maybe the funniest show ever) tackles Mike Lazaridis, the soft spoken co-CEO and co-founder of RIM who totally gets the tech but not the people. His foil, as it were, is Jim Balsillie (Always Sunny’s Glenn Howerton), a brash and success-obsessed capital-B businessman type who drops F-words while trampling anyone who doesn’t show him the respect he believes he deserves.

Baruchel has an undeniable vulnerability throughout the film, even when the chips are way down. Howerton, however—who has proven he’s got chops on shows like AP Bio—takes the cartoonish route. Some of this comes down to the writing, but in contrast to the legendary Michael Ironside as a bullish exec meant to keep the phone nerds in line...well, let’s just say quiet, threatening rage feels scarier than nonstop shouting any day. If the goal was to prove how real-life Balsillie was all bite and no substance, then mission accomplished. Still, Howerton delivers an irksome and dimensionless performance

There are enjoyable yet briefer turns from vets like Cary Elwes as the PalmPilot sonofabitch who thwarts Balsillie whenever possible, or Saul Rubinek (Frasier) as the Verizon guy who helped BlackBerry conquer the world. Johnson himself takes on a role as Lazaridis’ partner and friend, Doug Fregin, though his constant reminders that nerds enjoy Ninja Turtles and Spielberg movies and Doom feel less like sly nods and more like Balsillie’s nuclear tirades—awkward.

And so it goes up until the mid-aughts, when the SEC took a look at the company; and the disastrous BlackBerry Storm release. That phone was meant to be the iPhone killer, but did you have one? Did anyone? The film posits that something like 93% were returned or forgotten. And though there’s no question that RIM and BlackBerry changed how we live, do business and interact with our phones and tech—not to mention how data is packaged and sold—Johnson and company don’t quite broach the question we should really be asking: Was it actually for the better? (ADV)

Violet Crown, R, 120 min.

by Matt Jones

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Rob Brezsny Week of May 31st

ARIES (March 21-April 19): History tells us that Albert Einstein was a brilliant genius. After his death, the brain of the pioneer physicist was saved and studied for years in the hope of analyzing the secrets of why it produced so many great ideas. Science writer Stephen Jay Gould provided a different perspective. He said, “I am less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” I bring this to your attention, Aries, in the hope it will inspire you to pay closer attention to the unsung and underappreciated elements of your own life—both in yourself and the people around you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Human life sometimes features sudden reversals of fortune that may seem almost miraculous. A twist in my own destiny is an example. As an adult, I was indigent for 18 years—the most starving artist of all the starving artists I have ever known. Then, in the course of a few months, all the years I had devoted to improving my craft as a writer paid off spectacularly. My horoscope column got widely syndicated, and I began to earn a decent wage. I predict a comparable turn of events for you in the coming months, Taurus—not necessarily in your finances, but in a pivotal area of your life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I am weary of gurus who tell us the ego is bad and must be shamed. In my view, we need a strong and healthy ego to fuel our quest for meaning. In that spirit and in accordance with astrological omens, I designate June as Celebrate Your Ego Month for you Geminis. You have a mandate to unabashedly embrace the beauty of your unique self. I hope you will celebrate and flaunt your special gifts. I hope you will honor your distinctive desires as the treasures they are. You are authorized to brag more than usual!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): One study reveals that British people own a significant amount of clothing they never wear. Other research suggests that the average American woman has over a hundred items of clothing but considers just 10 percent of them to be “wearable.” If your relationship to your wardrobe is similar, Cancerian, it’s a favorable time to cull unused, unliked, and unsuitable stuff. You would also benefit from a comparable approach to other areas of your life. Get rid of possessions, influences, and ideas that take up space but serve no important purpose and are no longer aligned with who you really are.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In July 1969, Leo astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first human to walk on the moon. But he almost missed his chance. Years earlier, his original application to become part of NASA’s space exploration team arrived a week past the deadline. But Armstrong’s buddy, Dick Day, who worked at NASA, sneaked it into the pile of applications that had come in time. I foresee the possibility of you receiving comparable assistance, Leo. Tell your friends and allies to be alert for ways they might be able to help you with either straightforward or surreptitious moves.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Great shearwaters are birds that travel a lot, covering 13,000 miles every year. From January to March, they breed in the South Atlantic Ocean, about halfway between Africa and South America. Around May, they fly west for a while and then head north, many of them as far as Canada and Greenland. When August comes, they head east to Europe, and later they migrate south along the coast of Africa to return to their breeding grounds. I am tempted to make this globetrotting bird your spirit creature for the next 12 months. You may be more inclined than ever before to go on journeys, and I expect you will be well rewarded for your journeys. At the very least, I hope you will enjoy mind-opening voyages in your imagination.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): One of the central myths of Western culture is the Holy Grail. For over 800 years, storytellers have spun legends about the search for a

precious chalice with magical qualities, including the power to heal and offer eternal youth. Sober scholars are more likely to say that the Holy Grail isn’t an actual physical object hidden away in a cave or catacomb, but a symbol of a spiritual awakening or an enlightening epiphany. For the purposes of your horoscope, I’m going to focus on the latter interpretation. I suspect you are gearing up for an encounter with a Holy Grail. Be alert! The revelations and insights and breakthroughs could come when you least expect them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): June is Dare to Diminish Your Pain Month for you Scorpios. I hope you will aggressively pursue measures to alleviate discomfort and suffering. To address the physical variety, how about acupuncture or massage? Or supplements like boswellia, turmeric, devil’s claw root, white willow bark, and omega3 fatty acids? Other ideas: sunshine, heating pad, warm baths with Epsom salts, restorative sleep, and exercise that simulates natural endorphins. Please be equally dynamic in treating your emotional and spiritual pain, dear Scorpio. Spend as much money as you can afford on skillful healers. Solicit the help of empathetic friends. Pray and meditate. Seek out in activities that make you laugh.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A hungry humpback whale can hold more than 15,000 gallons of water in its mouth at once—enough to fill 400 bathtubs. In a funny way, their ability reminds me of you right now. You, too, have a huge capacity for whatever you feel like absorbing and engaging with. But I suggest you choose carefully what you want to absorb and engage with. Be open and receptive to only the most high-quality stuff that will enrich your life and provide a lot of fun. Don’t get filled up with trivia and nonsense and dross.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Funny story: A renowned Hollywood movie mogul was overheard at a dinner party regaling an aspiring actor with a long monologue about his achievements. The actor couldn’t get in a word edgewise. Finally, the mogul paused and said, “Well, enough about me. What do you think of me?” If I had been in the actor’s place, I might have said, “You, sir, are an insufferable, grandiose, and boring narcissist who pathologically overestimates your own importance and has zero emotional intelligence.” The only downside to speaking my mind like that would be that the mogul might ruin my hopes of having a career in the movie business. In the coming weeks, Capricorn, I hope you will consistently find a middle ground between telling the brazen truth to those who need to hear it and protecting your precious goals and well-being.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When faced with important decisions, most of us benefit from calling on all forms of intelligence. Simply consulting our analytical mind is not sufficient. Nor is checking in with only our deep feelings. Even drawing from our spunky intuition alone is not adequate. We are most likely to get practical clarity if we access the guidance of our analytical mind, gut feelings, and sparkly intuition. This is always true, but it’s extra relevant now. You need to get the full blessing of the synergistic blend. PS: Ask your body to give you a few hints, too!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Has your intuition been nudging you to revise and refine your sense of home? Have you been reorganizing the domestic vibes and bolstering your stability? I hope so. That’s what the cosmic rhythms are inviting you to do. If you have indeed responded to the call, congratulations. Buy yourself a nice homecoming present. But if you have resisted the flow of life’s guidance, please take corrective measures. Maybe start by reorganizing the décor and furniture. Clean up festering messes. Say sweet things to your housemates and family members. Manage issues that may be restricting your love of home.

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TAI CHI Chih & Qigong

Beginners Course starts June

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3: (Please note: if you can’t start on the 3rd, you can start the following Saturday 6-10 or the very last start time will be 6-17) This weekly course will be taught outside at the Galisteo Rose Park. Saturday mornings: 9:00 - 10:15am

It takes about 8 - 9 sessions to learn the 20 postures. OK to miss a class. Cost: $10 / session, pay as you go.

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STATE

OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT CASE NO: D-101-PB-2023-00109

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Elke Ottilie Bannwart, also known as Shanti E. Bannwart, and Shanti Elke Bannwart-Roesnner, Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE

IS HEREBY GIVEN that Claude R. Phipps, Jr., whose address is The Wirth Law Firm, P.C., 708 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, has been appointed as Personal Representative of the Estate of Elke Ottilie Bannwart, also known as Shanti E. Bannwart, and Shanti Elke Bannwart-Roesnner, Deceased. Creditors of the estate must present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or within sixty (60) days after mailing or other delivery, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever banned. Claims must be presented to the Personal Representative, Claude R. Phipps, Jr., in care of The Wirth Law Firm, P.C., 708 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, or filed with the First Judicial District Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Dated May 11, 2023

Respectfully submitted, The Wirth Law Firm, P.C. Attorneys for the Estate of Elke Ottilie Bannwart, also known as Shanti E. Bannwart, and Shanti Elke BannwartRoesnner, Deceased.

708 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 (505) 988-1668 ext. 103

By: Peter Wirth

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk

By: Bernadette Hernandez Deputy Court Clerk

STATE OF NEW MEXICO

COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

Case No.

D-101-DM-2023-00163

Petitioner, Benito Loya Miramontes VS. Respondent, Gloria Olivas Sinaloa.

pleading in said cause within thirty (30) days after the last publication of this Notice, a default judgment against you may be entered.

Benito Loya Miramontes, Petitioner’s name.

3845 Riverside Dr Santa Fe, NM 87507 5053958572

Witness the Honorable, SHANNON BRODERICK

BULMAN, District Court Judge of the First Judicial District Court of the State of New Mexico, and the seal of the District Court of Santa Fe County, this 18 day of May, 2023.

Kathleen Vigil Clerk of the District Court

Esmeralda Miramontes Deputy Clerk

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE. Case No. D-101-DM-2023-00155

Petitioner, Alexis Nieto De Giron VS. Respondent, Roy Nieto. NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF SUIT. STATE OF NEW MEXICO to Roy Nieto. GREETINGS: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that Alexis Nieto De Giron, the above-named Petitioner/Plaintiff has filed a civil action against you in the above-entitled Court and cause number, the general object thereof being: To Dissolve the marriage between the Petitioner and yourself. Unless you enter your appearance in this cause within thirty (30) days of the date of the last publication of this Notice, judgment by default may be entered against you.

Alexis Nieto De Giron, Petitioner/Plaintiff.

706 Felipe Place Santa Fe, NM 87505

Witness this Honorable, SHANNON BRODERICK

BULMAN, District Court Judge of the First Judicial District Court of the State of New Mexico, and the seal of the District Court of Santa Fe/Rio Arriba/Los Alamos County, this 19th day of May, 2023.

Kathleen Vigil

Clerk of the District Court

Bernadette Hernandez

Deputy Clerk

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO No. D-101-PB-2021-00280

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LUCY DIPONZIO, DECEASED. NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR

ORDER OF COMPLETE SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE BY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE TO:FRANCINE ANNE LAROSA

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the following:

1.LUCY DIPONZIO, Deceased, died on November 09, 2021;

2.Gregg Gleba filed a Petition for Order of Complete Settlement of Estate by Personal Representative in the above-styled and numbered matter on May 2, 2023; and, 3.A hearing on the above-referenced Petition has been set for July 14, 2023, at 10 a.m. at the Judge Steve Herrera Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, before the Honorable Matthew J. Wilson. All parties are to appear remotely for this hearing. Parties may appear either by video at meet.google. com/bbu-aujx-qfx or by calling 1-336-949-8079 and entering pin number 862702640#. Pursuant to Section 45-1-401 (A) (3), N.M.S.A., 1978, notice of the time and place of hearing on the above-referenced Petition is hereby given to you by publication, once each week, for three consecutive weeks.

DATED this 15th day of May, 2023. Gregg Gleba, Petitioner THE CULLEN LAW FIRM, P.C. Attorneys for Petitioner 2006 Botulph Road P.O. Box 1575 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504 (505) 988-7114 (office) (505) 995-8694 (facsimile) lawfirm@cullen.cc

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT CASE NO: D-101-CV-2023-01079

IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF MARIA PILAR OLIVIA SISNEROS. NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME. TAKE

NOTICE that in accordance with the Provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner, Maria Pilar Olivia Sisneros, will apply to the Honorable KATHLEEN MCGARRY

ELLENWOOD, District Court

Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 11:50a.m. on the 7th day of July, 2023. For an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Maria Pilar Olivia Sisneros to Olivia Pilar Sisneros

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk

By: Gloria Landin Deputy Court Clerk

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Case No. D-101-PB-2023-00134

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CONRAD CHURCHILL SKINNER, DECEASED. NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF CONRAD CHURCHILL SKINNER, DECEASED, AND ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO HAVE OR CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF CONRAD CHURCHILL SKINNER, DECEASED, OR IN THE MATTER BEING LITIGATED IN THE HEREINAFTER MENTIONED HEARING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the following: 1. CONRAD CHURCHILL SKINNER, Deceased, died on March 2, 2023; 2. ELLEN BERKOVITCH filed a Petition for Adjudication of Intestacy, Determination of Heirship, and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative in the above-styled and numbered matter on May 16, 2023, and a hearing on the above-referenced Petition has been set for June 28, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. at the First Judicial District Courthouse before the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid to be held remotely by Google Meet. The Court prefers counsel and parties to participate by video at https://meet.google.com/hdcwqjx- wes. If it is not possible to participate by video, you may call 1 (954)-507-7909 and enter PIN: 916 854 445#

3. Pursuant to Section 45-1-401 (A) (3), N.M.S.A., 1978, notice of the time and place of hearing on the above-referenced Petition is hereby given to you by publication, once each week, for three consecutive weeks. DATED this 25th day of May, 2023.

/s/ Kristi A. Wareham, Esq. KRISTI A. WAREHAM, P.C. Attorney for Petitioner 300 Paseo de Peralta, Ste. 103 Santa Fe, NM 87501 Telephone: (505) 820-0698

Fax: (505) 629-1298

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