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OCTOBER 25-31, 2023 | Volume 50, Issue 43

NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

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CHITTUM TO STEP IN 8 The city’s next municipal judge talks track record, plans for court’s future VIGILANCE FOR VACANCIES 9 SFPS looks to close teacher vacancy gap, aided by alternative teacher licensure programs COVER STORY 12 MIDTOWN IN MOTION Campus redevelopment gears up as the city prepares for affordable housing, film, arts and more

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“ACCUSATIONS MOUNT IN CITY ELECTION”

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COVER, OCT. 18: “HANGING IN THE BALANCE”

STATE OF DISREPAIR Schools are also voting precincts, and can also function as heating or cooling stations in preparation for climate change. Why are the schools in such a state of disrepair? Some residents might remember when Turquoise Trail Elementary was built supposedly for the growing population south of Santa Fe? It’s been a charter school for years. Neighborhood schools are important.

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HERE WE GO AGAIN We’ve already saved it once, just keep it in the education system. Stop trying to shut down schools and diminish the education system. Don’t you think we’ve done enough damage to our education system over the last 40 years?

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I observe that as we approach the end of campaigns, efforts are made to take jabs at the other parties. So, candidate [Phil] Lucero stating that incumbent [Michael Garcia] abstained from 23 votes while [Garcia] came back with Lucero just does not get the the process. Other comments about Garcia and the 3% excise tax show opinions for discussion. What is important to me is that people go and vote and then hold whoever is elected to doing something about the 24/7 illegal and unenforced loud vehicle muffler noise and “boom boxes.” This pollution adversely affects the lives of most citizens and visitors. Studies have shown that there are direct links between noise and health. Problems related to noise include stress related illnesses, high blood pressure, speech interference, hearing loss, sleep disruption, and lost productivity.

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SHIRLEY MACLAINE LISTS SANTA FE HOME FOR $4.3 MILLION Sister Sara could buy a buncha mules if that sales goes through.

FEDS SOLVE THEFT OF 2 MILLION DIMES FROM US MINT TRUCK Considering inflation, maybe they shoulda gone for quarters instead.

EARLY RESPONSE TO LAW MAKING SCHOOL YEAR LONGER HAS BEEN MIXED Oh, no way, furreal?!

HOUSE CLOSES IN ON THREE WEEKS WITHOUT A SPEAKER

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PEOPLE BEHIND SIPAPU AND PAJARITO TAKE OVER SANDIA PEAK SKI AREA

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LOCAL COMPANY H&A EMBROIDERY MAKES “MARTY THE MOOSE SHIRTS” Perhaps the greatest sartorial achievement in the history of local clothes.

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Chittum Steps In B Y E VA N C H A N D L E R e v a n @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

anta Feans will welcome a new Municipal Court judge this election season: Chad Chittum is the sole candidate for the job on Nov. 7 ballots. Judge Virginia Vigil, who has held the position since 2016, isn’t seeking re-election Vigil did not return requests for comment for this story. Chittum, 47, hails from Abilene, Texas, but he’s been a familiar face in the courthouse on Camino Entrada since 2016, when he began work as the city prosecutor. In 2019, he moved into his current job, staff attorney for the court. Chittum runs day-to-day operations as the court administrator, managing staff and other duties. In addition, he serves as pro-tem judge to relieve Vigil. He tells SFR stepping up to run for judge was his way to follow “a clear career path.” “It’s just a natural progression,” he says. “I come into the court, right from being a prosecutor, and I have the experience of also knowing criminal procedure, all the case law and trial work experience that I have, but also now I’ve got the behind-the-door experience, so I think it will be a seamless transition.” Responsibilities of a municipal judge, required to be a lawyer, include: hearing

ent’s next hearing is, and that really helps,” Chittum says. The court recently implemented a language access specialist program as well, offering bilingual staffers a 12-week course with the Administrative Office of the Courts whereby they can earn certificases; managing trials and arraignments; cates and obtain higher hourly pay. and crafting and following a budget. Chittum says his proudest achieveCurrently, the judge oversees 16 employments are the relationships he’s created ees and earns a salary of $146,806. While along the way. Jose Gonzales, a former the number of cases can fluctuate, statisSanta Fe Police Department lieutenant tics show the court averaged 322 traffic who retired last June, says Chittum was citations monthly since April an effective prosecutor first. 2023 and approximately 18 “He’s just so very thorough DWIs per month. and really knowledgeable when Chittum calls current it comes to prosecution, and staff’s initiative the court’s he was fair but firm at the same biggest strength. As the muni time,” Gonzales tells SFR, addjudge, he says he wants to ing Chittum kept in close contact keep that momentum going. with officers. “To be honest with “We don’t want to get you, in the time I had been with complacent,” Chittum says. the police department, there “We should be constantly trywere other city prosecutors that ing to improve.” just didn’t take that time or make Chittum tells SFR the that effort to communicate with court is currently working the officers on their cases. It was to get its DWI drug proreally refreshing with Chad.” gram certified through the Before he retired, Gonzales Administrative Office of the also had the chance to see Courts, which requires eduChittum in action as pro tem cation for all partners of the judge when he presented traffic program, including the public violations. defender, the prosecutor, the “He just truly takes the facts judge and the program coorof the case and bases his decidinator; and ensures it meets sions off of that. He’s just very best practice standards. The fair and very firm, very respectprogram aims to help offul, and I think that most peofenders achieve alcohol/drug ple would agree that he is just sobriety in order to prevent so professional,” the former them being involved with the officer said. “We haven’t had a system again. person like him sitting either in Chittum also plans to esthe prosecutor’s chair or on the tablish a specialty court for judge’s chair in the 17 years that Chat Chittum, the only candidate on the ballot for municipal judge, individuals aged 18 to 25 I was with the Santa Fe Police earned his law degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law in 2012. years old, “to make sure that Department.”

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we’re keeping them out of the system and if they get into the system, make sure they don’t come back,” he says. Most recently, the court expanded public access by creating an online version of the court docket—a step Chittum says was important because the majority of Municipal Court cases do not appear on the statewide website. “We’ve gotten that on board to where someone can go online and find out when their next court hearing is. An attorney can go online and find out when their cli-

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Vigilance for Vacancies SFPS looks to close teacher vacancy gap, aided by alternative teacher licensure programs BY M O C H A R N OT m o @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

s coursework for the second quarter of the school year for Santa Fe Public Schools kicks off, the district reports it has made progress on filling full-time teacher vacancies in the past year. In August 2022, officials were hiring for 66 positions; now, SFPS has cut the number by more than half. Superintendent Hilario “Larry” Chavez says the district’s workforce investments are paying off. “One thing we’ve done to be competitive is leverage [federal funds] into initiatives to fill vacancies,” he tells SFR. “Roughly, we have about 850 teaching positions, and when we’re at 28 vacancies, it calculates to just over 3%.” Chavez says the reasons for reduced vacancies include SFPS’ new, low-cost child care center available to district employees and mental health wellness rooms for students—both projects that came thanks to federal money dolled out during the COVID-19 pandemic, which the district has also been using to cover program costs for teachers in an alternative teacher licensure program. Approximately five of the remaining full-time openings are for special education teacher positions, with the majority of other teaching positions open at the elementary level. For example, César Chávez needs four teachers for grades 1 through 5; EJ Martinez

needs a kindergarten teacher; Ramirez needs a 3rd grade teacher and Sweeney needs a 2nd and 3rd grade “combo” class teacher. Chavez notes staffing special education positions is “a work in progress” for the district, despite SFPS recently offering generous stipends to special education employees that led to more new hires. “That is an area of need, not only for SFPS,” Chavez says. “When you really look at individuals going into a profession, especially if they’re in a college or university, they tend not to go into special education. It’s a high priority—it’s going to continue to be an issue.” A 2023 report by the New Mexico State University’s Southwest Outreach Academic Research Evaluation and Policy Center found 751 vacant teacher positions in the state as of Sept. 8, with 268 in special education. However, district spokesman Cody Dynarksi notes the numbers in the report may be inflated. Over the same time period, it counted more than 80 vacant teaching jobs at SFPS, when the district said it had far fewer. The report’s methodology states researchers used school districts’ online job postings to calculate teacher vacancies, and many special education positions tend to be “split between school sites,” and could have been counted as separate positions, leading to the number of vacant positions to look higher, Dynarski explains. “The district is in a better position than it has been in the last couple of years,” he says. Janette Fonseca, the district’s direc-

tor of human resources, tells SFR her strategy for filling the remaining slots includes continued recruiting such as hosting job fairs at the Santa Fe Community College where she can tap into students who might participate in the college’s alternative licensure program. Chavez says further attempts to address vacancies also depend on “whether or not we can help universities create a pipeline into education.” Graduate numbers from education programs at New Mexico colleges and universities have been declining in recent years. At the University of New Mexico, graduates from the College of Education and Human Sciences decreased from 174 to 138 between the 2018-19 and 2021-22 school years. Similarly, education degrees awarded per year from New Mexico State University decreased from 204 to 74 between 2012 and 2021. However, the majority of new teachers in the state haven’t been receiving

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their teaching licenses from traditional programs: according to a 2021 brief from the NM Legislative Finance Committee, more than 60% of new teachers in public education come from alternative licensure programs, such as the program offered at SFCC. Upon acceptance into a state alternative licensure program, students become eligible for an internship license that allows them to apply to be a teacher for two years at a public school district as they complete their coursework. Dawn Wink, Santa Fe Community College’s director of teacher education, tells SFR the majority of participants in the college’s program are working full-time within Santa Fe Public Schools while studying for their licenses, about 150 students. “Nationwide, fewer people are entering traditional programs in the field of education,” Wink says. “What alternative licensure programs and institutions of higher education allow people to do is, if they have a degree in another field, and decide if they want to teach, this is the path to get there.” Wink says students engage in core classes to learn theories of teaching and learning, classroom management and curriculum development and assessment. After completing core classes, students can choose an area to specialize in teaching, such as elementary, secondary and special education. Dynarski tells SFR some district employees who used the alternative licensure program have even moved up to district-level positions, including Deputy Superintendent Vanessa Romero.

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he largely empty buildings in the Midtown Campus give the impression of something like a ghost town. In some buildings, chairs and tables are still arranged in classrooms last occupied by the teachers and students in 2018. On the lower floor of the Fogelson Library, books stand neatly in their proper order, spines aligned on the shelves. Lights flicker, struggling to come on in the former gym. Outside, overgrown weeds cut through the fences of former sports courts. But change is coming for the 64 acres in the city’s geographic center. After years with the land under the city’s control, redevelopment appears to be gaining momentum. City officials say they will seek the first proposals for housing projects in the new year. Recently, they struck two key deals: one for the expansion and redevelopment of film studios on the southern third of the campus, and another for a future Visual Arts Center that would use existing buildings and create new spaces for education and creativity. The path to this point has been slow going and indirect. The city bought the former College of Santa Fe campus in 2009 after the school closed, then leased it to Laureate Education, a for-profit business which relaunched the school as Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Laureate briefly consid12

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ered a plan to partner with a Singaporebased corporation called Raffles Education but dropped that proposal and formally announced SFUAD’s impending closure in 2017. The city next turned its attention to a large-scale redevelopment of the property as a way to pay off the purchase debt and create community benefits. It sought bids for “master developers” and entered an exclusive negotiation agreement with KDC/ Cienda in May 2020. That idea fell through when the partners said it was no longer financially feasible. That’s when the city took the reins. More than three years later, a government-led redevelopment effort has finally taken shape. A community development plan approved last November after a series of public meetings laid the foundation. “We were able to get valuable input from our community, both the adjacent neighborhoods and folks who live in the city, to understand how the vision of the Midtown area would look once we start to dig into the ground and start to build different types of buildings for use,” Community Development Department Director Rich Brown tells SFR. The plan, he says, “addresses the values of how all that development of infrastructure would be done. It’s been great because it’s going to focus on sustainability. It’s going to focus on equity. It’s going to focus on the culture, [and] it’s going to focus on the environment.” And, the top priority out of the gate will be housing While the Midtown Campus can’t solve all of Santa Fe’s well-documented housing shortage, the development plan calls for 1,100 new residential units that would be ex-

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ecuted by private firms who bid on parcels, then build and sell or rent housing. Some of the housing on the campus will be sold at market rate, but the city has identified four tracts for developments that must be 100% affordable housing. An economic land use analysis prepared by Strategic Economics identified the potential on those tracts for 135 townhouse units varying from rental, to land trust to ownership, as well as 60 multi-family rental units. Bid packets for the request for proposals phase should be ready on the first parcel in January, Brown says. After the RFP is issued, the city will review the proposals, choose a winning bid, then enter an agreement with a developer, all of which will take about four months, he says. From there, the builder will find financing, with the possibility of shovels in the ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

Campus redevelopment gears up as the city prepares for affordable housing, film, arts and more

ground as early as next fall. This all comes in conjunction, Brown says, with planning for sidewalks, roads, power and plumbing so infrastructure work can hopefully start around the same time. “From about August or September of next year for the next probably two to three years, there will be a lot of work being done at Midtown to get it ready for buildings that need to be built,” he says. On top of the all-affordable projects, other residential parcels must include 30% of units priced as affordable to low and middle income earners. Mayor Alan Webber says he’s hoping for even more, noting that requirement is “the floor, not the ceiling.” “The first RFPs going out for affordable housing parcels are really quite exciting,” Webber tells SFR, “and it’s really making good on the commitment to put affordable housing at the front of how the property redevelops.” Office of Affordable Housing Director Alexandra Ladd tells SFR the city targeted the first two parcels dedicated to 100% affordable housing near the St. Michael’s Drive entrance to the campus. “The reason [that area has] been chosen is because they have the access from St. Mike’s, they’re served by water and sewer, so they can be developed before anything else happens,” Ladd says. “We really wanted to send that message to the community like:

The Fogelson Library building still contains its full complement of reading materials, though it’s been inaccessible to the public for years. The city now plans to renovate and reopen the library in 2025.

A growing demand for working sound stages and film production in the state has kept the Greer Garson studios active over the years, but now a developer promises even greater opportunities. PE Real Estate Holdings, a New York City-based real estate development company, received a green light in July from the City Council and the mayor to create a mixed-use film campus called Aspect Studios on a combined 20 acres near the campus entrance on Siringo Road with a total of eight sound studios and other production facilities. Aspect already had a foothold in the area. Nearly a year before the city’s approval of the studio expansion offer, company Principal Phillip Gesue purchased the privately-owned Shellaberger Tennis Center adjacent to the campus in November 2022 and converted two of its indoor stadiums into what he says are already two of the largest sound stages in New Mexico. “Sound stages are what drive the film business. That’s where they do all their shooting [and] where they build their sets, and the sound stages are big enough to do even the very biggest series or feature films,” Gesue tells SFR. “When we acquired that property and turned it into a studio, it made the prospect of adding Garson to it and turning that into really a world class production studio, instead of something that is more of a local or regional type of studio, a reality.” Now, it will lease the former Garson Film School complex along with the former site of The Screen movie theater, Benildus Hall and the Driscoll Fitness Center for its operations. Additional plans for the film campus include electric vehicle charging stations, an all-day café and more. Gesue says Aspect Studios has a commitment to hire its operations staff locally. Just with the acquisition of the tennis center, the urban planner and real estate developer hired six locals. But there’s more to come, he assures. “That’s just one building. When Garson is added, and when we have more businesses coming in, there will be a multiple of that as full-time staff, and that’s for just me as the real estate owner,” Gesue says. “The businesses that come in and actually do their productions in the space hire hundreds of people…All those people are local between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. And when we have a big show that comes in, those 200 staff positions—a vast majority of them are filled locally.”

Campus vision

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‘We heard you loud and clear. You do not want this to be a playground for rich tourists. You want this to be an asset for you, a community and a place where everyone can find opportunity.’”

The 64-acre development plan includes reuse of key campus buildings and new construction in other areas. Officials will issue requests for proposals for housing next.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING ASPECT STUDIOS FILM CAMPUS OPEN SPACE

BY THE NUMBERS Campus purchase: $29.6 million Consultant contracts for planning and community engagement: $1.7 million Estimated infrastructure (streets, electricity, sewer and water lines, etc.): $30-32 million Expected revenue from land sales: $28 million Years to completion: 7 to 12 Anticipated number of new housing units: 1,100

Meanwhile, on the other corner of the campus, an anchor arts organization is planning its next chapter. The Santa Fe Arts Institute once thrived on the energy of the Midtown Campus. Its building, co-located alongside both colleges that operated there since the 1980s, enabled an important connection to the wider community. The organization supports 50 to 70 artists annually, providing them with lodging and studio space, a communal kitchen and laundry facilities. But with college students no longer around, the atmosphere shifted and the group “has been lonely in that little corner of campus,” says Executive Director Jamie Blosser. Restoring vitality, therefore, became one of the institute’s primary interests. “I think that my board and staff and I felt as though we needed to really consider how we could be a bit more in charge of our own destiny, and thinking about from the very beginning, from 2018, how we might try to have a hand in shaping the redevelopment of the campus,” Blosser tells SFR. The institute partnered with several arts, design and educational organizations to form the Midtown Arts and Design Alliance, which in August entered into an exclusive

negotiating agreement to lease the Visual Arts Center. The institute serves as developer and operator for the center, a project that envisions art and design programming; education and workforce training development; and an investment in renewable energy. It will incorporate the instructional, office and gallery spaces in the Marion Center for Photographic Arts, the Thaw Art History Center, Tishman Hall and the Tipton Lecture Hall. The alliance worked with the University of New Mexico Design and Planning Assistance Center to develop “a pretty robust public engagement process,” Blosser says. “We really see arts and culture and design in Santa Fe is more community driven… So how can we support one another in ways that you don’t always see nonprofits coming together to do? We’re starting to talk about shared resources,” Blosser says. “It’s all very much in the beginning stages, but I think that we know we’re in the process of building that team and starting to think about how we can really reach out to the entire community.” A grant from the National Endowment for the Arts focused on creative place keeping paid for the Midtown Block Party in October 2021. More than 1,000 visitors attended, with many filling out surveys about CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Driscoll Fitness Center is part of an area slated to become Aspect Studios, a film campus that encompasses the Greer Garson Studios building and others.

what they’d like to see happen on the site. “That was a great partnership with everyone involved including the city,” Blosser says of the event. “We really are focusing our project on the work we’re all doing but also what we heard that day.” Feedback called for an arts and culture hub that connects youth and families and also offers education, enterprise and service. For the next year, the Visual Arts Center project will remain in the “feasibility phase.” This means the nonprofit will work with MASS Design Group to look at space planning, check the condition of buildings and obtain cost estimates, Blosser says. Such assessments will need to happen campuswide. Before potential developers can get serious about their projects, the city has its own work to do. The next order of business is building streets and parks space. According to Brown, the city estimates

the project’s infrastructure will cost $30 million over a 10 to 15 year period for “all the things that happen on the ground.” “We are incrementally putting some of that money into play,” Brown says. “We are working with our Finance Department and the city manager to make sure that the work that needs to be done now is getting funded.” While late city audits have prevented the state from releasing about $3.2 million the Legislature allocated for the first infrastructure on the project, Webber says the city’s isn’t stuck. “In the meantime,” he says, “we’re using other resources to move forward on Midtown with the utilization of dollars from different parts of our general fund budget and our operations budget.” In the long-term, the city expects to see a return on its investment. Officials project more than $74 million in revenue, including $28 million from land sales and $38

Even with all of the public objectives that people wanted to see, there was still the opportunity for the city to come out in a positive number. -Daniel Hernandez, project manager

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million in projected future tax revenues. Considering nearly $48 million of estimated costs including infrastructure, outstanding bond debt and pre-development costs, the city says it will end up with $26 million in potential returns. “Our goal was to demonstrate that it wasn’t in the red,” project manager Daniel Hernandez says. “Even with all of the public objectives that people wanted to see, there was still the opportunity for the city to come out in a positive number and not a negative number.” Brown tells SFR the redevelopment investment has the potential to yield 2,000 jobs over six to 10 years, starting with construction and engineering jobs for the infrastructure and the film industry economic sector with jobs for productions. Webber adds “it’s not just the immediate jobs, it’s the pipeline of jobs” as well as the “social capital” that need to be considered. “We’ll be investing in future artists of Santa Fe. We’ve got a great history and deep roots in arts and culture, but if you don’t reinvest with every generation, you run the risk of becoming a less attractive, less vibrant community,” the mayor says. “So if that goes forward, and we have a new center for young people to take up the arts and become skilled at all kinds of artistic expression, it may not create a ‘job,’ but it may create an artist, and that’s an incredibly valuable part of Santa Fe as an attractive community.” The city also plans to refurbish and reopen the Fogelson Library by July 2025. Brown says the city’s Public Works Department is working with an architectural firm to create “a 21st-century” design plan as the next step and there’s no estimated cost at present. “It’ll be a mix of arts and music and services and digital services and interactive programming and possibly childcare,” Brown says. “Because libraries now are not just the books. There are many, many things.”

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City Midtown Property Development Manager Tim Farrell overlooks the Greer Garson Studios and The Screen from the fitness center roof. The campus could look entirely different 12 years from now, city officials say.

Chainbreaker has also zeroed in on sustainability, which Communications Organizer Cathy Garcia says encompasses more than just LED lighting, solar panels and recycling. “Those things are critical, but we are also talking about if there’s a safe space for teens to hang out where they’re not going to get harassed, are all of the sidewalks safe for elders with mobility issues? Are they wide enough for strollers?” Garcia says. “When you talk about all of that stuff being related to health and like quality of life, simply focusing on are there enough solar panels is still not getting to the heart of the matter.” The redevelopment plan calls for new

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As development moves ahead, the surrounding area and neighborhoods are bracing for impact. City officials tell SFR they have been working with residents of the nearby Hopewell Mann neighborhood on an anti-displacement strategy. Organizations like the Chainbreaker Collective previously expressed concerns about gentrification as a result of the Midtown project. Chainbreaker Executive Director Tomás Rivera tells SFR the nonprofit has been vocal in the planning process because the neighborhood is “greatly vulnerable to displacement after generations of disinvestment.” “We always say there’s not a silver bullet, there’s a silver buckshot. What it fundamentally boils down to and what we’ve heard very clearly after years of organizing is that community control is the absolute most important fundamental cornerstone for preventing gentrification,” Rivera says. “That allows the people who are directly impacted in the neighborhood to actually decide how it gets developed, as opposed to external market forces.” Rivera says the city deserves a lot of credit for the efforts it has taken to get “deep community engagement” prior to developing design plans. “Dealing with gentrification and displacement is not an easy thing to address,” Rivera says. “It is an imperfect process. It is Santa Fe trying to build a plane as it’s been midair for decades…Of course, nothing has been built yet, but we have really seen the input from the community development plan being taken seriously by elected officials, by city staff, and it is our job as Chainbreaker to make sure that continues to happen.”

City officials say a bidder has proposed to use the 500-seat performing arts venue.

connecting pathways, bike routes and green/ open spaces, plus two plazas—one in the middle of the former campus and another to the northeast. Hernandez also points to water topics as major aspects of the development plan: not just that it calls for low water-usage requirements, but it also minimizes water flowing away from new structures. “We wanted to make sure that we could retain and or detain during storms so that water wasn’t rushing off the site into the public stormwater system and/or to adjacent neighborhoods,” Hernandez says. While the pieces of the project continue to come together little by little, Hernandez esti-

mates the city is still seven to 12 years from full completion, and “probably closer to 12 at that.” In a typical development process, he notes, it can take two to three years alone for design work, planning and financing prior to construction. “We want to get those RFPs out as early as possible so that we can get those projects moving forward,” he says. Next month, officials say, the city plans to announce a director who will oversee the new “Metropolitan Redevelopment Area” in and around the campus. That employee will take on the full leadership role of the Midtown project as well as future efforts to improve nearby property. Both Hernandez, who works on contract, and Midtown Asset Development Manager Lee Logston will directly report to the MRA director. Also on the horizon, a bidder who wants to use the 500-seat Greer Garson Theatre Center for a performing arts venue has made a proposal that staff expect to present to the governing body next month. Rivera says tangible progress is happening at the right pace. “Real authentic community change takes a long time…We’re used to having sort of soundbite news flashes and soundbite policy being made, but really doing it with the intention—we think that is an investment that we want to see continue, because this is going to last us for generations,” Rivera says. “Fifty years from now, they won’t say, ‘Oh my god, they didn’t build this quick enough.’ They’ll say, ‘Thank goodness they put enough time into this.’” Learn more about the Midtown campus project at midtowndistrictsantafe.org.

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FUSED IN CLAY For those following the local ceramics game, names like Heidi Loewen and Matthew Rowe really mean something. Taken singularly, each brings a mastery to the clay world that has played out across numerous years and projects; together, LOMA (as we’ve just decided to call them) contain multitudes. At the upcoming show The Gold That Binds Us, Loewen and Rowe capitalize upon decades of their friendly/ professional relationship at the intersection of traditional and contemporary methods including clay marbleization, blowtorching, gold leafing and, notably, kintsugi—the Japanese-developed means of repairing broken ceramic pieces with gold and lacquer. There’s probably some kind of allusion to be made about coming together for golden newness, but we’ll just leave it at how the show’s a must for the clay-lovers among us. (Alex De Vore) Heidi Loewen and Matthew Rowe: The Gold That Binds Us: 5-8 pm Friday, Oct. 27 and noon-5 pm, Saturday, Oct. 28 Heidi Loewen Fine Art, 315 Johnson St., (505) 9888-2225

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DRAG SAT/28 WHAT A DRAG Know what rules? Cast a glance around here and you’re bound to lay eyes on an awesome drag performer. Even better? The kings have come out to play big time in recent years thanks to promotions outfit New Mexico Drag Kings, and we just plain love to see it. In this instance, we refer to Rusty Galore Nutz, a dedicated drag daddy who will sadly move on from New Mexico for greener pastures following this week’s Haunted Cinema Drag Show at the Jean Cocteau Cinema— itself a benefit for transitionary healthcare costs for local performer Vilette Stratton. What spurred this move just as the scene begins to hit new heights? “I need to step away for just a little bit of some spiritual and artistic motivation outside the city,” Nutz tells SFR, adding that drag kings in Santa Fe are finally paid as much as the queens, “but there’s a chance I’ll be back in February.” Catch ‘em while you can this week, including Nutz, queen Mona Chromatic and other performers too numerous to list here. (ADV) Haunted Cinema Drag Show: 7 pm Saturday, Oct. 28. $30-$70 Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 466-5528

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EVENT SUN/29 BRING OUT YOUR DEAD At a certain point, pet ownership for the unhoused becomes harm reduction. Yeah, yeah...you have feelings—save ‘em, because local nonprofit Street Homeless Animal Project’s 2nd Annual Zombie Run is here, and it’s all about helping rather than deriding. “Our mission is to alleviate suffering and keep animal-human families together,” says founder and director Karen Cain. “Our tagline has always been ‘sometimes love has no address.’” In short, the 2nd Annual Zombie Run is like a walk-a-thon kind of thing, only participants are encouraged to come as zombies, which includes completing the run in a zombie shuffle should they choose. The registration fee goes toward helping SHAP provide vet services, food, water and other resources to the pets of our local unhoused, and the event also includes music from the Torii Taiki Japanese drumming ensemble, food trucks, face painters and more. “There’s more need than ever,” Cain adds, “and we simply couldn’t do it without the community supporting and caring.” (ADV) SHAP 2nd Annual Zombie Run: 8 am-noon Sunday, Oct. 29. $35-$40. Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road, (505) 316-3596; nmshap.org

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Normal People, Big Problems Opera West’s annual production showcases Italian opera

The “verismo”—or realistic—tradition of Italian opera involves “characters at street level,” composer and educator Oliver Prezant notes. And Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, circa 1890—adapted from the short story by Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga—is considered one of the first operas in that tradition. “This is a lyric, one-act super-intense very Italian opera,” Prezant, who provided a pre-opera lecture earlier this month, tells SFR. “Ordinary people in a Sicilian village dealing with love, infidelity and revenge.” The style suits Opera West Founder and Director Janice Pantazelos, who will mount the company’s annual production this weekend at the St. Francis Auditorium, providing a close-up experience for both opera and chamber orchestra lovers alike. “My mission is two hours or less,” Pantazelos says. “Because I think people who have never seen an opera, to have them go see something that’s four hours long is not going to make them fall in love with opera right away.” Helping people fall in love with opera is one of Pantazelos’ goals, so she keeps the shows short and the ticket prices attainable. As a former opera singer herself (mezzo soprano), she says she also wants to “give back” and provide more opportunities for the singers and the musicians, the latter under the direction of returning conductor Chicago Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra Director Russell Vinick. While Pantazelos picks shorter operas,

she also picks ones, she says, governed by emotion. “I love verismo opera,” she says. “I love opera that’s real emotion…they’re real people with real stories.” The story in this case—in a nutshell: When Turiddu returned home from the army, he found his love Lola married to Alfio; he turns to Santuzza, whom he then abandons to rekindle his relationship with Lola. Opera West’s production has two separate casts dividing the duties for its four shows. Soprano Kathleen Echols, a Santa Fe resident returning for her fourth season as a singer and children’s chorus director, depicts Lola during a recent rehearsal in the photo above (right), with Dominican tenor José Heredia, first prize winner of the Verismo Opera International competition, performing Turiddu, back for his third season. “I think the singers are amazing,” Pantazelos says. “They are really high-level singers; they all have studied for years, many of them have more than 10 roles under their belts. And many of them are back again and keep auditioning every year. And keep winning roles.” (Julia Goldberg)

OPERA WEST PRESENTS CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA BY PIETRO MASCAGNI 6 pm Friday, Oct. 27; 1 pm and 7 pm Saturday, Oct. 28; 5 pm Sunday, Oct. 29 $15-$150. St. Francis Auditorium 107 West Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072; operawest.org

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QUEER COFFEE GET TOGETHER Ohori's Coffee Roasters 505 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-9692 Coffee with your local queer community every Wednesday. Get to know your fellow queer Santa Feans. 9:30 am, free LEISURELY BIKE RIDE Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2501 Thrice-weekly instructor-led bike rides through the city. Take advantage of Santa Fe’s beautiful trail system. 10 am, $5

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WORKSHOP PAINT-SIP-CHILL: BEGINNER PORTRAIT PAINTING II CHOMP Food Hall 505 Cerrillos Road, Ste. B101 Paint the Wicked Witch of the West and learn how to successfully draw facial proportions and paint skin color while understanding light and shadow. 6 pm-9 pm, $33 WEDNESDAY MORNING WHEEL Paseo Pottery 1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687 A two-hour pottery class for all levels of clay throwers. This is a seven-week course but you can drop in anytime. 10 am, $65-$430

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WED/25 BOOKS/LECTURES BRITTANY MEANS: HELL IF WE DON’T CHANGE OUR WAYS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 The Albuquerque author brings us a tale of self-preservation in this modern day feminist coming of age novel. 6 pm, free DRESSAGE CLINICS AND CAJA ENDURANCE RIDE HIGHLIGHTS Pecos Trail Cafe 2239 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-9444 A discussion about horseback riding and how dressage clinics sponsorship contributed to the success of this event. All three speakers are well-known in the equine community and solid champions of various horse events. 7 pm, free

EVENTS 2023 CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE MEET AND GREET La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E. San Francisco St. (505) 983-5220 An informal conversation with your district City Council candidates. Learn about their platforms, ask questions and connect prior to the November election. 8 am-10 am, free

SKI STOKE NIGHT HOSTED BY ALPINE SPORTS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Get pumped for ski season with Abstract, a film about freestyle snow skiing. We love these cheap shows. 7 pm, $5

MUSIC BLONDE REDHEAD Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Brooklynites Blonde Redhead make their way through the desert and we are pumped to hear their melodic angelic sound. 7 pm, free CHESSA PEAK Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Folk, blues and American rock ‘n’ roll for happy hour from this New Mexican singer-songwriter. 4 pm-6 pm, free PAUL CATALDO El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 The Tampa Bay based Folk/ Americana duo performs songs from their latest disc "Wild & Free" as well some originals and cover tunes. 8 pm-10 pm, free SLOW MAGIC AND BEACON BLOOM Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 393-5135 Modern electronic pop and melodic house music. 7:30 pm, $29

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OPERA CAMILLA TILLING AND EMANUEL AX-JENNY LIND: LOVE AND LIEDER Cristo Rey Parish 1120 Canyon Road (505) 983-8528 Soprano Tilling with pianist Emmanuel Ax revisit the career of Jenny Lind, the reigning soprano of her day. Expect works by Chopin, R. Schumann, and Mendelssohn. 7:30 pm, $35-$95

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Robin Jones paints compassionate lifelike images of Indigenous girls and women in their natural environments. See these stunning works at Blue Rain Gallery through Nov. 11.

FRED HARVEY HISTORY WEEKEND 2023 New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200 Learn about all things Harvey in this lecture-filled weekend along with dinner and an auction. Visit musuemfoundation.org for full schedule of events. 11 am-5 pm, $25-$150 WILLIAM FREJ AND POLLY SCHAAFSMA: BLURRED BOUNDARIES: PERSPECTIVES ON ROCK ART IN THE GREATER SOUTHWEST Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 Frej’s powerful black and white photographs of rock art in the American Southwest and Baja California explore enigmatic region and the meaning behind it. In conversation with Anne Frej. 6 pm, free

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2 MILLION MEALS CELEBRATION Kitchen Angels 1222 Siler Road., (505) 471-7780 Check out the food stations, tour the facility and shop Kitchenality. 5 pm-7 pm, free ALL FIERCE COMEDY SHOW Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 A night filled with margs and laughs osted by Graviel De La Plaga. 7 pm, $10 GEEKS WHO DRINK Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 A team of experts have written some challenging trivia questions. 7 pm-9 pm, free PAINT-SIP-CHILL MADRID: BEGINNER PORTRAIT PAINTING III Mad Contemporary 3 Firehouse Lane, Madrid (505) 603-5225 cherylcasden@gmail.com Draw facial proportions and paint skin color while understanding light and shadow Register by email. 6 pm-9 pm, $36

ON CLOVER ROAD Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 A psychological thriller about a distraught mother who waits to be reunited with her runaway daughter. 7:30 pm, $15-$75 THE NETHER New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533 A sci-fi crime drama in a world that delves into ethics and virtual reality as they relate to human relationships. 7:30 pm, $15-$35

MUSIC BILL HEARNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Pickin' and strummin' with Hearne for happy hour. Hearne has been at it since the ‘60's. 4 pm-6 pm, free FOLK JAM El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Open to all levels and all instruments,. 7 pm-8:30 pm, free LIVE MUSIC THURSDAYS: GEOFFREY CASTLE As Above So Below Distillery 545 Camino de la Familia (505) 916-8596 Rock out to some raging electric six-string violin. 8 pm, free OPEN DECKS NIGHT Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474 Become the DJ of your dreams. First come first served for nine 20-minute slots. 7 pm-10 pm, free OPEN MIC WITH STEPHEN The Mineshaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, (505) 473-0743 Bring your acoustic down to Madrid and show off that little ditty you've been working on. 7 pm, free THE ITALS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135 Reggae and soul music for your Thursday night. 7:30 pm, $22

WORKSHOP POTTERY EXPERIENCES Paseo Pottery 1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687 A one-time, two-hour session guided by local Santa Fe artists and geared toward travelers and newbies. Did we mention that they serve drinks? 3 pm-5 pm, $125 REWILDING THE HUMANITIES: TEACHING LITERATURE AT ST. JOHN’S AND DEEP SPRINGS COLLEGE Drury Plaza Hotel 828 Paseo de Peralta (505) 424-2175 St. John’s College tutors Marsaura Shukla and Sara Stickney speak as part of Wildness and Wilderness, where they discuss how literature can give victims of over-domestication a chance to explore the wilderness through words. 2:30 pm-3:45 pm, $175 ROXANNE ROSSI: HANDMADE PAPER DEMONSTRATION Paper Clouds Studio 1964 Hopi Road, (303) 246-7387 Artist and paper-maker Rossi teaches you how to make your own paper from cotton pulp. 1 pm-3 pm, free

FRI/27 ART OPENINGS AUTUMN GLOW GROUP EXHIBITION (OPENING) Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902 Celebrate fall with vivid landscape paintings and sculptures in warm tones. ILEANA ALARCÓN’: CASA PAPEL (OPENING) Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie (505) 820-1888 The Colombian American sculptor/designer presents an immersive dreamscape consisting of 21 pieces that push the boundaries of medium and sustainability. 5 pm-7 pm, free

JERRY WELLMAN: UNEXPLAINED GIFTS (OPENING) Hecho a Mano 830 Canyon Road (505) 916-1341 The series of monoprints Wellman created for the show playfully reveal diaphanous figures and suggested narratives—but only with the lightest touch. 5 pm-7 pm, free OPENING RECEPTION: PAPER TRAILS form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256 A mixed media exhibition that draws compelling links between printmaking icons and contemporary sculptors. 5 pm-7 pm, free RAILYARD ARTS DISTRICT LAST FRIDAY ART WALK Santa Fe Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa St. Stroll around the Railyard and visit the seven contemporary art galleries in the district. 5 pm-7 pm, free ROBIN JONES: ARKTEIA (OPENING) Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902 Figurative paintings of the natural world and human influence upon the world. Jones’ subject of young people as they are strong voices in environmental activism. 5 pm-7 pm, free RON KINGSWOOD: ARRANGEMENTS LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250 Abstract expressionism meets wildlife art in these oil on canvas paintings. 10 am-5 pm, free TAMAR KANDER AND MARY SILVERWOOD (OPENING) Ventana Fine Art 400 Canyon Road (505) 983-8815 Mixed media paintings with topographically rich designs by Kander and New Mexico landscape paintings by Silverwood. 4 pm-6 pm, free TINY CREATURES: ART OPENING Jude Hunt Studio 821 Canyon Road, Ste. 4 Small works by mixed media artist Hunt where the artist has created tiny figures to celebrate the upcoming winter season. 3 pm-5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES ANN MURDY: ON THE PATH OF MARIGOLDS Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 A discussion on the traditions of Día de los Muertos. 4 pm, free

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MIKE KATKO: BIG MEDICINE PRETTY WATER Purple Fern Bookstore 7 Avenida Vista Grande, Ste. D5 (505) 382-8711 Author Katko talks abut Big Medicine Pretty Water a novel that takes place in 1920s Jemez Pueblo as the protagonist fights for their life. 6 pm, free HERE, NOW AND ALWAYS: NATIVE NARRATIVES SPEAKERS SERIES Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269 Attend a lecture from a family of potters and hear about inspirations for their works. Speakers include Jody Naranjo, Dusty Naranjo and Rose B. Simpson. 1 pm-3 pm, $12

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EVENTS ABOUT LAST NIGHT: CABARET PARADISO Paradiso 903 Early St., (505) 577-5248 Belly dance, burlesque, drag, comedy, spoken word, flow arts, live music and more. Costumes are encouraged. 7 pm, $20 DAVID CROSS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 The Emmy Award-winning writer, comedian and actor lights up the Lensic with his stand-up comedy and wit. 8 pm, $50 DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS ON THE PLAZA Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Hit up food trucks and vendors and live in a world of marigolds and mariachi music. 4 pm-10 pm, free LALA LAND BACK: LADY SHUG AND LANDA LAKES SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Indigiqueer drag form Lady Shug and Landa Lakes as well as New Mexican Indigiqueer drag stars. If you're a SITE member you can attend the cocktail party prior to the show. 7 pm-9 pm, free LUJÁN AWARDS Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200 Four active, never-say-no Democrats have been selected to receive Ben and Carmen Luján Award and Sen. Ben Ray Luján will hand out the awards himself. Recipients include Gary King, George Rivera, Julie Rodriguez and Jonnalyn Grover. 5:30 pm-7 pm, $75 NIGHTMARE ON RUFINA STREET Second Street Brewery (Rufina) 2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068 Local bands tackle covers from the likes of Garbage, Velvet Underground and the Beastie Boys paired with one hell of a costume contest. 8 pm, free

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DAY OF THE DEAD LOVED ONE & ANCESTOR LETTER WRITING Janna Lopez Writing Studio 2088 Paseo Primero (505) 230-0683 Miss a loved one or an ancestor? Who doesn’t. Let Janna Lopez guide you through the process of communicating with the dead through the written word. Give Grandma a hello. Register 24 hours in advance. 3 pm-5 pm, $57 REWILDING THE HUMANITIES: TEACHING LITERATURE AT ST. JOHN’S AND DEEP SPRINGS COLLEGE Drury Plaza Hotel 828 Paseo de Peralta (505) 424-2175 St. John’s College tutors Marsaura Shukla and Sara Stickney speak as part of Wildness and Wilderness, where they discuss how literature can give victims of over-domestication a chance to explore the wilderness through words. 2:30 pm-3:45 pm, $175

FRED HARVEY HISTORY WEEKEND 2023 New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave (505) 476-5200 Learn about all things Harvey in this lecture-filled weekend along with dinner and an auction. Noon-7 pm, $25-$150 REBEL READERS BOOK CLUB Online Read any book that fits this month’s fiction theme, then share your thoughts. Register for the Zoom meeting at tinyurl. com/RebelReaders10. 10:30 am, free

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Printmaking and mixed-media show Paper Trails at form & concept explores inkscapess from a large handful of emerging and established artists like Judy Chicago.

FILM DINNER AND A MOVIE Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Get bougie and attend a mobthemed dinner paired with a screening of Goodfellas. 7 pm, $45

MUSIC PAUL CATALDO: GUITAR Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio 652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090 Lush vocals and singer-songwriter folk music. 2 pm-5 pm, free BAND OF HEATHENS AND THE WATSON TWINS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135 Austin based rootsy guitar-rock with guests The Watson Twins. 7:30 pm, $25 CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304 King Charles serenades diners with vocals and piano. 6 pm, free CONNOR'S HEART BENEFIT The Bridge at SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place, (505) 557-6182 A rock and country show benefitting the nonprofit Inside Out Recovery. 7 pm, $25

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JOHNNY LLOYD Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 982-0000 Yummy ‘za and a side of country from town favorite Lloyd. 6:30 pm-8 pm, free LE YOUTH Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 DJ sets featuring Le Youth and Nils Hoffman along with a cosmic howl costume contest where you can dress in full beast. 9 pm-midnight, $30 MURZYN MALONE QUARTET Paradiso 903 Early St., (505) 577-5248 Jazz all evening featuring guests Donald Bailey Jr. on drums and Jon Gagan on bass. 8 pm-9:30 pm, free OPERATION REWIND The Mineshaft Tavern and Cantina 2846 Hwy. 14, Cerrillos (505) 473-0743 Hear your favorite songs with this cross-decade cover band. 8 pm, free RUDY BOY EXPERIMENT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Dirty blues boy band self-described as "true rock-n-roll". 7 pm-10 pm, free SOUREN BARONIAN

AND TAKSIM GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St., gigsantafe.com See a 93-year-old reed master and his band perform Middle Eastern jazz. 7 pm, $25 WHITE ROSE MOTOR OIL The Mineshaft Tavern and Cantina 2846 Hwy. 14, Cerrillos (505) 473-0743 Cow-punk country. 5 pm, free

THEATER CAT'S PAJAMAS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601 Cat's Pajamas examines the life of two very different people when their lives intersect. 7:30 pm, $25 OPERA WEST PRESENTS: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave, (505) 476-5072 A dramatic opera with love, cheating and revenge. (See SFR Picks page 17) 6 pm-7:30 pm, $25-$80 THE NETHER New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533 A sci-fi crime drama that delves into ethics and virtual reality. 7:30 pm, $15-$35

MATTHEW ROWE AND HEIDI LOEWEN: THE GOLD THAT BINDS US (OPENING) Heidi Loewen Fine Art 315 Johnson St. (505) 988-2225 A collaborative art show of porcelain platters that focuses on clay marbleization, gold leafin, blowtorching and the Japanese art of kintsugi—the celebration of repairing broken pottery with laquer and gold. (See SFR Picks page 17) 5 pm-8 pm, free PATRICK KIKUT: BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME (OPENING) 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 Landscape paintings with a strong focus on unprotected lands, particularly spaces between national parks. Kikut explores the reflection of human encroachment on these lands. Noon-5 pm, free SANTA FE STUDIO TOUR Various locations Santa Fe, sfestudioart.com More than 100 local artist open their homes and studios citywide. This studio tour even has an app to guide you which is super convenient. 11 am-5 pm, free THE SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market and Alcaldesa streets (505) 982-3373 An outdoor juried art market featuring pottery, jewelry, painting, photography, furniture, textiles and more. The holidays are upon us—shop local. 9 am-2 pm, free

EVENTS DARKSIDE OF THE MYSTIC: TONE RANGER, ANIMA AND WISE FOOL The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road (505) 471-7663 Great food options, DJs and dance sets and tricks from Wise Fool until 2 am. 6 pm-2 am, $20 DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS ON THE PLAZA Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Hit up food trucks and vendors during the day a glow in the dark candlelight parade at night led by traditional mojigangas. Noon-10 pm, free HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL AT CARLOS GILBERT ELEMENTARY Carlos Gilbert Elementary 300 Griffin St., (505) 467-4700 Games, bounce houses and a haunted house that'll give you goosebumps for days. Of course there’s a costume contest! Noon-5 pm, free HAUNTED GARDEN WALK Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103 Hear spooky tales in the garden complete with hot cocoa and apple cider. 7 pm-8:30 pm, $6-$10 LA TIENDA FLEA La Tienda at Eldorado 7 Caliente Road, (505) 930-4821 The best recurring flea in the Santa Fe area. You never know what you’ll find here. 8 am, free NEW MEXICO ALE TRAIL Sky Railway 410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759 Sample New Mexican crafted beers on a train soaring through the desert landscape. 1:30 pm, $109 NM DRAG KINGS PRESENT: THE HAUNTED JEAN COCTEAU CINEMA DRAG KING SHOW! Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Celebrate Halloween and NM Drag Kings final drag show at the historic Jean Cocteau Cinema. Prizes and giveaways throughout the entire show. (See SFR picks page 17) 7 pm-10 pm, $30-$70

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PARTY IN THE PARKING LOT Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Education Annex 123 Grant Ave., (505) 946-1039 Celebrate a new chapter of the O’Keefe Museum as they kick off a new chapter with community partners. Free admission from 10 am-5 pm and ceremony at 1 pm. 9 am-2 pm, free ROCKY TUCKER'S BIRD WATCHING TOURS Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve 27283 W Frontage Road La Cienega, (505) 471-9103 Bring binoculars and a snack to check out the wetlands' avian inhabitants. Register in advance. 7:30 am, $5 or by donation THIRD ANNUAL AUTUMN MAKER YARD SALE Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502 A big sale of tools, equipment, machines, parts, materials, electronics, furniture, art supplies, vintage ephemera and loads of miscellaneous odds and ends for your creative projects. 9 am-2 pm, free UNITED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING EDUCATION TALK Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 A voter education event that shares details on the high-end excise tax measure and answers to community questions. The campaign will provide Spanish interpretation services and childcare to give more people and families an opportunity to learn and ask questions. This week's speaker is state Rep. Andrea Romero 10:30 am-11:30 am, free VAMP MOTEL: HRA’S 2ND ANNUAL HALLOWEEN FUNDRAISER Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135 A spooktacular night with a costume contest and the chance to win exciting cash prizes with proceeds benefiting the Human Rights Alliance. 21+ 8 pm-1 am, $25-$35 QUICK DRAW Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882 Nika Feldman has curated a group of artists that will be offering works that clock in at under $100, plus you get to meet the artists. 6 pm-8 pm, free QUIVER & TEMPT SOCIETY: IT CAME FROM WITHIN Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588 A Halloween queerlesque show serving M. Night Shyamalan level twists on your favorite horror movie monsters. 7 pm, $30 ZIRCUS EROTIQUE BURLESQUE & VARIETY SHOW Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, (505) 424-3333 A sexy and spooky burlesque and variety show. 7:30 pm-9:15 pm, $25-$30

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FOOD COFFEE BREWING DISCOVERY EVENT Ohori’s Home 1098 1/2 S. St. Francis Dr., Ste. A (505) 982-9692 Taste samples and learn how different brewing methods have an affect on the final product in your coffee cup. Attendees also get 25% to buy brewing products at either Ohori’s locations. 9 am-1 pm, free SANTA FE FARMERS' SATURDAY MARKET Farmers' Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Get your fresh food fix at one of the oldest and largest farmers’ markets in the country. 8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC ALLISON RUSSELL Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Poet, activist and singer-songwriter Russell performs her new album The Returner, an album of Black liberation. 7:30 pm, $25-$45 BILL HEARNE La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511 Our favorite resident country artist plays La Fiesta Lounge. 6:30 pm-9 pm, free BOB MAUS Inn & Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-5531 Piano and voice takes on blues and soul classics. 6 pm-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 HALLOWEEN PARTY WITH FELIX Y LOS GATOS The Mineshaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Cerrillos (505) 473-0743 Dress up in your best costume and jam out to some New Orleans swing. The Mineshaft does it up for Halloween. 8 pm, $10 HELLO DARLIN' Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Washboard strummin' and foot stompin' blues. 1 pm-3 pm, free JOHNNY LLOYD Cafe Catron 420 Catron St., (505) 982-8900 Singer-songwriter and big beard vibes. 11 am-1 pm, free JOHNNY LLOYD Nuckolls Brewing Co. 1611 Alcaldesa St. nuckollsbrewing.com Our favorite local country singer Lloyd performs on the patio. 6 pm-8 pm, free

JULIE STEWART AND ANIMAL PARADE The Mineshaft 2846 Hwy. 14, Cerrillos (505) 473-0743 Daytime blues on the patio. 8 pm, free LONE PIÑON: CUATRO VIDAS ALBUM RELEASE San Miguel Mission 401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974 An intimate acoustic concert of traditional New Mexican string music. 7 pm, $25 MYRRHINE AND THE BIG SUITCASE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Soulful blues and heartfelt rock. 7 pm-10 pm, free THE JAKES The Mineshaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Cerrillos (505) 473-0743 Southern rock’n’roll all afternoon. 3 pm, free WALKER LUKENS CINEMA Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 Experience 1974 slasher film The Texas Chainsaw Massarce like never before as Walker Lukens & Co. create a live improvised soundtrack while the film is projected overhead. 8 pm-12 am, $20

OPERA OPERA WEST PRESENTS: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave (505) 476-5072 A dramatic opera with love, cheating and revenge. (See SFR Picks page 17) 6 pm-7:30 pm, $25-$80

THEATER CAT'S PAJAMAS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 Directed by Talia Pura and written by Albuquerque playwright Vicki Meagher, Cat's Pajamas takes place in Taos and examines the lives of two very different people when their lives intersect. 7:30 pm, $25 ON CLOVER ROAD Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 A psychological thriller about distraught mother who waits to be reunited with her runaway daughter at an abandoned motel on a desolate road near a questionable community. 2 pm, $15-$75 THE NETHER New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533 A sci-fi crime drama in a world that delves into ethics and virtual reality as it relates to human relationships. 7:30 pm, $15-$35

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THE CALENDAR WORKSHOP DAY OF THE DEAD LOVED ONE & ANCESTOR LETTER WRITING Janna Lopez Writing Studio 2088 Paseo Primero (505) 230-0683 Miss a loved one or an ancestor? Who doesn’t. Let Janna Lopez guide you through the process of communicating with the dead through written word. 10 am-noon, $57 HALLOWEEN STAINED GLASS ART EXPERIENCE TLC Stained Glass 1730 Camino Carlos Rey, Ste. 100 (505) 372-6259 Learn Tiffany-pioneered soldering tricks while creating a holiday-appropriate memento. 1 pm-3:30 pm, $150

SUN/29 ART OPENINGS RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers' Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Buy fine art and crafts directly from local creators. 10 am-3 pm, free SANTA FE STUDIO TOUR Various locations Santa Fe, sfestudioart.com More than 100 local artists open their homes and studios city-wide. 11 am-5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES HISTORY AND GROWTH IN THE CITY DIFFERENT Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place (505) 424-3333 A public conversation about the past, present and future of Santa Fe. Topics include affordable housing and making millenial connections. 3 pm, free WAYNE LEE AND DAVID MEISCHEN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 Local poets Lee and Meischen will read their poetry. 5 pm, by donation

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RAPTOR CENTER VISIT Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103 Meet live raptors and learn about their characteristics. 11 am-noon, $12 STREET HOMELESS ANIMAL PROJECT: ZOMBIE RUN Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road, (505) 316-3596 Run or walk like a zombie and participate in tarot, facepainting, a horror lounge and more. Dress up Fido too, all are welcome. Register at nmshap.org. (See SFR Picks page 17) 8 am-noon, $35-$40 SUNDAY GET DOWN DRAG SHOW Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 DJ Matthew Sato brings the tunes for local divas who perform to a new theme every month. Bring your $1 bills! Noon, $20-$50 UNITED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING EDUCATION TALK Boys & Girls Club (Zona del Sol) 6600 Valentine Way (505) 474-0385 A voter education event that with details on the high-end excise tax measure and answers community questions. This week's speaker is state Rep. Andrea Romero. 3 pm-4 pm, free QUIVER & TEMPT SOCIETY: IT CAME FROM WITHIN Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588 A Halloween queerlesque show serving M. Night Shyamalanlevel twists on your favorite horror movie monsters. Horror and queerness collide in this monster mash striptease. 7 pm, $30

FILM GOLDA'S WAR DIARIES CCA Santa Fe 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 A film touching on the many myths of Prime Minister Golda Meir's shortcomings and a clearer picture of her contributions during the Yom Kippur War. 3 pm, $12

MUSIC EVENTS DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS CELEBRATION Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204 Decorate calaveras de azucar, sample traditional pan de muerto and view the ofrenda installation by local artist Stephanie Riggs. 1 pm-4 pm, free HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARADE Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103 Show off your best nature themed costume at the garden's Halloween parade. Yes, there will be prizes! 1 pm-1:30 pm, free 22

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DEVON GILFILLIAN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 Gilfillian is a genre-blasting game-changer spanning soul, hip-hop, R&B and rock. 8 pm-midnight, $15-$22 DOUG MONTGOMERY Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765 Montgomery tickles the ivories. 6 pm-9 pm, free FELIX Y LOS GATOS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Local Latin blues and Tejano swing. Noon, free

JOHNNY LLOYD: LORE OF THE LAND Sky Railway 410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759 Lloyd sings country tunes for this daytime train tour. 1:30 pm-4 pm, $115 MAGICAL SUNDAYS: THE CHI CENTER The Center for Wisdom Healing Qigong/Chi Center 40 Camino Vista Clara 800-959-2892 The last Magical Sunday of the year. Brunch included. 10 am, $20 PAT MALONE TRIO JAZZ BRUNCH Bishop's Lodge 1297 Bishops Lodge Road (888) 741-0480 The Pat Malone Trio serenades you and your mimosa. 11:30 am-2:30 pm, free THE BOHEMIACS Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio 652 Canyon Road (505) 428-0090 Bohemian casual cabaret. 2 pm-5 pm, free THE SANTA FE SYMPHONY CHORUS: CHORAL MASTERWORKS Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi 131 Cathedral Place (505) 982-5619 Choral favorites sung by The Santa Fe Symphony Chorus. 3 pm, by donation

THEATER CAT'S PAJAMAS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie,(505) 424-1601 Cat's Pajamas examines the life of two very different people when their lives intersect. 2 pm, $25 SPACEMOB AND THE QUEST FOR THE NEVERENDING NUG Paradiso 903 Early St. (505) 577-5248 A multimedia hip-hop stoner musical created by local collective SpaceMob SpaceCadets. 2 pm-4:30 pm, $10-$20

THE NETHER New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533 A sci-fi crime drama in a world that delves into ethics and virtual reality as it relates to human relationships. Directed by Zoe Lesser. 2 pm, $15-$35

WORKSHOP ART CHURCH Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503 A monthly gathering place for artists, musicians, writers and the like. Meet your new bestie. 10 am-12:30 pm, $35-$45 DAY OF THE DEAD LOVED ONE & ANCESTOR LETTER WRITING Janna Lopez Writing Studio 2088 Paseo Primero (505) 230-0683 Miss a loved one or an ancestor? Who doesn’t. Let Janna Lopez guide you through the process of communicating with the dead through the written word. Give Grandma a hello, she would love to hear from you. Register 24 hours in advance. 4 pm-6 pm, $57 HALLOWEEN STAINED GLASS ART EXPERIENCE TLC Stained Glass 1730 Camino Carlos Rey, Ste. 100 (505) 372-6259 Learn techniques dating to 600 AD and Tiffany-pioneered soldering tricks while creating a holiday-appropriate memento. Best for adults—and don’t forget to bring close-toed shoes. 1 pm-3:30 pm, $150 PSYCHIC TOOLS REVEALED Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Samuel Enka from Tree of Life Studio explores the esoteric and introduces interactive activities that cultivate higher levels of awareness and increase one’s ability to access psychic tools and other dimensions. Talk about an out-of-this-world kind of workshop. 2 pm-4 pm, $25

MON/30 EVENTS COVID AND FLU VACCINATION CLINIC Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000 Bring your insurance card and get vaccinated. No pre-registration required and no one will be turned away. Located in the Jemez room. 9 am-1 pm, free I A N (INDUSTRY APPRECIATION NIGHT) As Above So Below Distillery 545 Camino de la Familia (505) 916-8596 Bring your server card for deep drink discounts. 7 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 133 W Water St. (505) 988-7222 Speed trivia with seven rounds of quizzes. Think fast. 7:30 pm-9:30 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 to share on the big screen. 6:30 pm, free

MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765 Listen to the sweet sound of Montgomery tickling the ivories as you have a steak dinner. 6 pm-9 pm, free ZAY SANTOS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Santos serenades your happy hour with blues tunes to soothe your Monday. 4 pm-6 pm, free

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ALISON HIXON: AND THE WORLD IS MINE Susan Eddings Pérez Galley 717 Canyon Road (505) 477-4ART Cubism, surrealism and selfportaiture merge together and Hixon’s cool as heck. 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat Noon-5pm Sun, free AN INNOCENT LOVE: ANIMAL SCULPTURE ARTISTS OF NEW MEXICO Canyon Road Contemporary Art 622 Canyon Road (505) 983-0433 The cutest little animal sculptures you ever did see portraying true love for little furries by artists Kari Rives and Fran Nicholson. 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm, Sat 10 am-4 pm, Sunday, free ANDREW ALBA: LIFTED LABOR form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256 Alba creates abstract works with scrap construction pieces left over from his day job 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free BEVERLY TODD: ALLOWING GOODNESS ITS OWN SPEECH Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403 Large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in earthtones, created by using broken sticks, rags and hands to move the paint around on canvas. 11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free CHRISTINE SULLIVAN: FELT: UNRAVELING SOCIAL NORMS Aurelia Gallery 414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915 Sullivan’s three-dimensional artworks employ fringe and tassles combined with felt, often in holy or royal colors, to embody symbols of religion and politics. 11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free CONSTANCE DEJONG: SEQUENCE (OPENING) Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688 Large and small metal minimalist wall sculptures. Think black, white and gray tones on metal. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

DANIEL D. STINE AND KATHLEEN M. JACKSON New Concept Gallery 610 Canyon Road (505) 795-7570 Stine’s highly stylized interpretations of New Mexico’s desert landscapes stimulate the senses, while Jackson’s watercolor and ink sketches and larger pastels capture the nostalgia of the region’s history. Noon-5 pm, free DEBORAH ROBERTS: COME WALK IN MY SHOES SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Figurative collages and paintings exploring Black boyhood in the United States. 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Mon, Thurs 10 am-7 pm, free DON KENNELL: THINKING WILD PORTALS Pop Gallery 125 E Lincoln Ave. (505) 820-0788 You’ve probably seen Kennell and team’s large scale works around town. Now check out some cool interior hanging wall pieces. 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat, free DOREEN WITTENBOLS: HAPPENING FOMA 333 Montezuma Ave. (505) 660-0121 Paintings, sculptures and photographs displayed in a kitchen vignette. 11 am-5 pm, free EILEEN DAVID: IN PLACE LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250 Paintings of cityscapes and house-scapes with vivid lines and deep blues and greens, capturing urban geometry. 10 am-5 pm, free EMMA BAGLEY: A WOMAN CRAWLS FORWARD smoke the moon 616 1/2 Canyon Road Find new paintings and a sprawling 45-piece mask installation collectively known as “Invasion.” Honestly, this is one of our favorite ongoing shows at the moment. 11 am-4 pm, Wed-Sun, free

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HALLOWEEN STAINED GLASS ART EXPERIENCE TLC Stained Glass 1730 Camino Carlos Rey, Ste. 100 (505) 372-6259 Learn Tiffany-pioneered soldering tricks while creating a holiday-appropriate memento. 1 pm-3:30 pm, free

GREMLINS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 A free Halloween screening of the 1984 classic—costumes encouraged. Free movies? We’re down. 7 pm, free

TUE/31 DANCE HALLOWEEN WITH BEAR AND OMI LOÜ El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931 Spooky lighting, dancing all night and a costume contest with prizes. 7 pm, free

EVENTS CITY OF SANTA FE HALLOWEEN PARTY Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 W Rodeo Road (505) 955-4000 Decorate pumpkins, trick-ortreat, get down to a dance party and more. 4 pm-7 pm, free FRIGHT TRAIN Sky Railway 410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759 See the true horrors of the desert after dark. This nighttime adventures features a costume contest, DJ, Halloween-themed libations and more. 7 pm, $129 THE SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET 1612 Alcaldesa St. Be a good gift-giver and shop this carefully curated art market. 9 am, free WEIRD SCIENCE HALLOWEEN BASH Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359 Dress up and let the kiddos trick-or-treat, participate in pumpkin painting and exploring the museum. 3 pm-7 pm, $25-$35

MUSIC BLUEGRASS JAM Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Bust out the banjo and join the bluegrass jam every Tuesday. 6 pm-8 pm, free JUSTIN HOWL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Chicago-based blues and roots guitarist and singer-songwriter with a warm vocal presence and a very nicely groomed beard. 4 pm-6 pm, free THE DOWNTOWN BLUES JAM Evangelo's 200 W San Francisco St. (505) 982-9014 Loveless Johnson III plays with his band Brotha Love & The Blueristocrats. 8:30 pm-11:30 pm, free

ONGOING GEOFFREY GORMAN AND MARY ALAYNE THOMAS Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art 702 Canyon Road (505) 986-1156 Lifelike watercolor and wax images of animals from Thomas and sculpture by Gorman. 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat Noon-5pm, Sun, free JOSÉ MANUEL FORS, ABEL BARROSO AND DESBEL ALVAREZ Artes de Cuba 1700 A Lena St. (505) 303-3138 Participating artists from various parts of Cuba reflect their individuality and character through their works. 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free

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With Musician Lisa Loeb

Whether you know her from her ’90s jams, her satellite radio program or her E! reality show, the name Lisa Loeb likely conjures up certain feelings of love lost, alterna-rock crossover tunes, love found or a bevy of other emotions. It doesn’t seem wrong to describe Loeb as legendary—or at least enduring. Time moves ever-forward, however, so we caught up with Loeb to talk solo work, pandemic-spurred collaborative projects, inter-generational fandom and more. Find her in Santa Fe this week (7:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 4. $50. Scottish Rite Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 9824414). This interview has been edited for length and clarity. (Alex De Vore)

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I’m always curious if a musician’s most current work is the product of a plan, or if it’s just the direction in which it went? It’s the organic direction. It’s always where I feel like going next, and what I feel like I want to say and who I want to work with. Sometimes a project will be offered to me, or someone will have something they want to do that I’ll incorporate into what’s next. And there’s a lot of interpretation along the way, too, in trying to figure out what I think should come next. I should keep a journal, and at times I do; and at times I get too busy to do that. But I’m a big fan of writing and rewriting and creative writing. I learned from [writing guru] Natalie Goldberg, I don’t know how many years ago…I always go back to that as a basic way to find ideas. Sometimes it turns out to be very personal, sometimes functional, sometimes specific, sometimes abstract. It’s kind of like when people don’t want to work out, they say to just do it? I go take a walk, and that’s literally just one foot in front of the other, but it always leads to something. It helps take the overthinking and fear out of writing.

I read somewhere that at some point your lyrics phased from what we traditionally think of as ‘love songs’ to become broader or perhaps more universal. Was that intentional? I think naturally some of the songs that come out when you’re younger are a little more about love and broken hearts, but ever since I was younger, I did try to write about a variety of things and different perspectives. Since I started writing family-friendly music and collaborating more, both of those things create a situation where whoever is involved in the process has to know what the song is about. Sometimes in early collaboration, I want to write things I decided to say rather than an abstract thought I can mask through poetry and music. Instead, I’m trying to tell a specific story. Collaborating was hard because I like doing everything myself and I have specific ideas of what I like and don’t like, how I see things. But the pros outweigh the cons. The work gets done and I’m able to organize myself better. I learn from the people I work with and get so much from collaborating. I would like to spend more time at some point writing by myself and making more things alone, but I’ve enjoyed what I’ve made. But also, as a listener, I don’t really pay that much attention to the behindthe-scenes. As a musician-listener, I do want to know who’s playing the drums, who’s singing the harmonies. But I think I’m in a place where I understand the whole is what people are focused on. Even Elton John, who I love, I realize he didn’t write the lyrics—but I think of him being invested in the meanings of those lyrics. It’s from his heart. As I get older, there are a lot more things that I experience. [Having kids] didn’t change what I like...and it’s not that [parenthood] changes what you’re writing, but it reminds you that if you’re taking time away from your family, you continue to try to do things as highquality as possible. If you’re going to be doing something that’s not for your family, it better be something good. Do you see a lot of multi-generational fans at shows these days? Oh definitely. It really spans so many generations. I’ve been doing this for so long that there are parents and grandparents and kids and also people have connected with me and I with them through...I had a show on The Food Network; on my life as a single woman for a dating show on E!….my music from the ’90s—from today—from appearing on TV shows like Fuller House. It’s so many different things.

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MCCREERY JORDAN: MESSENGERS BETWEEN WORLDS Gaia Contemporary 225 Canyon Road, Ste. 6 (505) 501-0415 A multi-media artist perhaps known for sculpture, Jordan will actually show abstract acrylic works this time out. 10 am-5 pm, free MIREL FRAGA: INNER COSMOS Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882 Oaxaca-based artist Fraga shares her spiritual journey through a collection of recent works on paper that showcase color harmonies, eclectic symbolisms, organic shapes, abstractionism and otherworldly visions. That sounds like a lot, but it’s really cool. 10 am-5 pm, free N. DASH: AND WATER SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Find yourself somewhere between painting and sculpture, water and land with these ecologically driven paintings. Hey, SITE? We see you killing it lately. 10 am-5 pm, Fri-Mon 10 am-5 pm, Thurs, free PAINTERLY EXPRESSIONISTS Pie Projects 924 Shoofly St., Ste. B (505) 372-7681 Work from some of Santa Fe’s original contemporary artists such as Eugene Newmann, John Connell, Sam Scott, Richard Hogan and Zachariah Rieke. These five artists helped kickstart Santa Fe’s artistic renaissance of the ‘70s and ‘80s. 11 am-5 pm, free PATRICK DEAN HUBBELL: YOU EMBRACE US Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Hubble (Diné) uses curio blankets to bring attention to current day colonialism as well as destroying and rebuilding what is sacred. Hubbell’s intentional destruction transforms mass made colonial blankets into stunning Indigenous works of art. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free PAUL BERLIN: TRANSFORMATION OF SPIRIT TO PIGMENT, HARMONY IN CHAOS Peyton Wright Gallery 237 E Palace Ave., (505) 989-9888 The late Berlin is often credited with bringing aspects of modern art to the US. His work grew into social-realism and early modernism. 9 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free PETER BUREGA: WEST OF THE MOON LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250 Meditative abstract acrylic paintings that portray nature in all its majesty through light, shadow, color and temperature. 10 am-5 pm, free

PIÑON COUNTRY Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103 A photographic installation by Christina M. Selby documenting piñon-juniper habitats, and another great excuse to stroll through the gardens. 9 am-5 pm, free REID RICHARDSON: VIBRANT VISTAS The Signature Gallery 102 E Water St. (505) 983-1050 This show will transport viewers into a world of vivid colors, breathtaking compositions, and artistic innovation 10 am-5 pm, free RENATE ALLER: COMMENSALISM Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711 Known for their large scale photography, Aller brings together expansive large scale imagery with smaller scale intimate figurative diptychs. 10 am-5 pm, free RICHARD GUZMAN art is gallery santa fe 419 Canyon Road (505) 629-2332 Guzman presents a series of energetic and robust Plein Air paintings. 10 am-5 pm daily, free RICHARD OLSON SOLO EXHIBIT Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 222 Delgado St. (928) 308-0319 Artist Richard Olson is doing remakes of some of his older works of art. He has re-painted the “Alice at the Bar hanging out with the White Rabbit” and re-titled the piece “Happy Hour at the Rabbit Hole (After Wonderland).” among more. 11 am-6 pm, Fri-Mon, free RICK PHELPS: THE LUNACY OF PUMPKIN SPICE Calliope 2876 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 660-9169 Santa Fe paper artist has paper creations of pumpkin spice Barbies, nostalgic pumpkins, skeletons and more. The possibilites of paper are endless. 11 am-4 pm, Fri-Mon, free STEVEN J YAZZIE: THROWING STARS OVER MONSTERS Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Various multimedia works by Yazzie (Diné/Laguna Pueblo) exploring the intersection of nature, culture and technology. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free THE TOPOGRAPHY OF MEMORY Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 A group of artists test the boundaries of your idea of typical landscape art. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

THEODORE WADDELL Gerald Peters Gallery 1005 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Layers of brushstrokes creating paintings of the landscape of the contemporary West. 10 am-5 pm, free PAUL CAPONIGRO AND JOHN PAUL CAPONIGRO Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo de Peralta (505) 577-6708 This duo highlights the similarities and differences of two generations of artists. We’re talking father and son artists in a show, which could go a lot of ways, but it seems to have gone well. 11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free WERNER DREWES: GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION Addison Rowe Gallery 229 E Marcy St., (505) 982-1533 Paintings by Drewes from his early career alongside stylistically similar artists. 10:30 am-5:30 am, free

WILLIAM LUMPKINS: 1909-2000 Addison Rowe Gallery 229 E Marcy St. (505) 982-1533 Abstract watercolors, pastels and graphite on paper from the late Lumpkins who was popular in Santa Fe in the 1930s. Expect abstract landscapes of Abiquiú and studies of Mescalero dance. 10:30 am-5:30 pm, Tues-Fri Noon-4pm Sat, free ZOE CHRESSANTHIS: VISIONS OF VORTEX ELECTR∆ Gallery 825 Early St, Ste. D (505) 231-0354 Otherworldly creatures emerge from seas, lagoons and shallow ponds in Chressanthis’ vibrant watercolor and gouache paintings, animations, and stop-motion films that have been Chressanthis’ work for the past decade. Don’t forget to check out her ceramic lifeforms.. 1 pm-5 pm Wed-Sun, free

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FERNANDO ANDRADE, TOM BIRKNER, GIL ROCHA: IN PURSUIT OF THE DREAM Gerald Peters Gallery 1005 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Sculptures, displays and paintings that explore the complexity of everyday life reflecting on loss, violence and love. 10 am-5 pm, free FOUND IN NATURE: THREE PERSON EXHIBITION Owen Contemporary 225 Canyon Road (505) 820-0807 A landscape show featuring the works of artists Martha Mans, Kurt Meer, and Cynthia Young. The exhibition will present a collection of landscape artworks showcasing the artists’ unique perspectives. 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat 11 am-4 pm, Sun, free GUILLAUME SEFF AND WILLIAM T CARSON: MATTER IN MOTION Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road, (505) 988-3888 Contemporary abstract works using geological elements and light to expand expressive possibility in abstract art. 10 am-5 pm daily, free INSPIRED BY ART AND LAND Sage Creek Gallery 421 Canyon Road, (505) 988-3444 A collection of representational and traditional fine art that encapsulates the enchantment and raw beauty of the West. Paintings and drawings of animals, adobes and other likeness of the Southwest. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm, Sun, free JENNY IRENE MILLER: HOW TO SKIP A ROCK Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 Photographic portraits that depict the magic and tenderness found within queer people and communities. Be sure to catch this one by the end of the month. Noon-5 pm, Tues-Fri, free JOAN MAUREEN COLLINS: ENTANGLED BEAUTY ARTIST RESIDENCY Jen Tough Gallery / AIR Studios 4 N Chamisa Drive (505) 372-7650 Joan Maureen Collins’ observations of the natural world have been a driving force behind her creativity. Her powerful and soulful abstract interpretations of her impressions of the land remind us of the fragility of our natural world. 10 am-6 pm, Fri-Sun, free MATT KING: BECOMING LIGHT CONTAINER 1226 Flagman Way (505)995-0012 Works by the late Meow Wolf co-founder and artist King. Neon light and paint portray hyperabstract expressionism. Using black as a contrasting color, these works truly stand alone in the world of abstract art. 11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, free

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Pursuit of Native Voting Rights. EnchantOrama! New Mexico Magazine Celebrates 100. 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am-7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226 What Lies Behind the Vision of Chimayo Weavers. 1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $10, children free NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5063 Selections from the 20th Century Collection. The Nature of Glass. Manuel Carrillo: Mexican Modernist. To Make, Unmake, and Make Again. 95-year-old paintings by Bert Geer Phillips that depict New 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am-7 Mexican life during that time are currently on display at the pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free New Mexico Museum of Art. 5-7 pm every Fri May-October POEH CULTURAL CENTER 78 Cities of Gold Road GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM OF INDIAN (505) 455-5041 MUSEUM ARTS AND CULTURE Di Wae Powa. Seeing Red: an 217 Johnson St. 710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269 Indigenous Film Exhibit. (505) 946-1000 Down Home. Here, Now and 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, $7-$10 Making a Life. Radical Always. Horizons: Weaving Between VLADEM CONTEMPORARY Abstraction. Selections from the the Lines with Diné Textiles. 404 Montezuma Ave. Collection. 10 am-5 pm, $7-$12, NM residents (505) 476-5602 10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, $20 free first Sun of the month Shadow and Light (under 18 free) 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs MUSEUM OF IAIA MUSEUM OF 10 am-7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART CONTEMPORARY residents free 5-7 pm every Fri 706 Camino Lejo NATIVE ARTS May-October (505) 476-1204 108 Cathedral Place Between the Lines. Yokai: WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF (505) 983-8900 Ghosts & Demons of Japan. THE AMERICAN INDIAN The Stories We Carry. The Art of Ghhúunayúkata / To Keep Them 704 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-4636 Jean LaMarr. Warm: The Alaska Native Parka. Always in Relation. California 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon La Cartonería Mexicana / The Stars. From Converse to Native 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 Mexican Art of Paper and Paste Canvas. Medicinal Healer, an 10 am-5 pm, $3-$12, NM resiMUSEUM OF Artist to Remember. Native dents free first Sun of the month ENCAUSTIC ART Artists Make Toys. ‘All Together. 18 County Road 55A Making our Way. Every Day. NEW MEXICO HISTORY (505) 424-6487 Medicine.’ by Eliza Naranjo MUSEUM Permanent collection. Global 113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200 Morse. Rooted: Samples of Warming is REAL. Southwest baskets. The Santos of New Mexico. 11 am-5 pm, Fri-Sun, $10 Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People’s 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $10, free to (18 and under free) Campaign. Miguel Trujillo and the all first Sun of the month

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Restaurateurs Face Embezzlement, Conspiracy Charges Former employer alleges theft, copyright infringement by Santa Fe Bees owners BY ALEX DE VORE a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

agoberto Melara told SFR earlier this month he named his new Guadalupe Street restaurant Santa Fe Bees in homage to his late former employer. But according to a lawyer for Bob “Bumble Bee” Weil’s widow, not only does Melara’s new restaurant infringe on the Weil family’s Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill branding, Melara and his wife also allegedly stole thousands from Bumble Bee’s. Melara, identified in Magistrate Court documents as Dagoberto Melara Leon, and his wife Karen Garcia Reveles, each face numerous fourth degree felony charges of embezzlement, as well as tax fraud, unauthorized withdrawal and conspiracy to commit embezzlement, according to criminal complaints filed this month. In filings from Oct. 2, Santa Fe Police Department Det. Daniel Lopez outlines myriad instances of financial misdeeds allegedly linked to Melara, who at the time was the grill’s manager, and Garcia Reveles in 2021 and 2022, including personal Amazon purchases on the Bumbebee’s account delivered to their Southside home,

along with groceries from Sam’s Club and Market Street. Additionally, according to the complaints, more than a dozen direct deposits from the grill were made to Garcia Reveles’ bank account between April and November last year totaling more than $13,000, and though Garcia Reveles had previously worked for Bumble Bee’s, police say it had been roughly five years since that time. The complaints also allege Melara and Garcia Reveles committed tax fraud and conspiracy by knowingly failing to report the very income they’d embezzled. Santa Fe Bees co-owner and Dagoberto’s brother, Jorge—who also worked for Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill—is not named in the criminal filings. Weil died in July 2021 and shortly thereafter his wife Barbara Joanne Weil also fell ill. It wasn’t until late last year that she became aware of alleged impropriety from the Melaras, her lawyer John Day tells SFR. “These were trusted employees for years,” Day says. “It turns out they were robbing them blind. Bob’s widow was in the hospital after he died, and that’s when they made their move.” That move, according to the complaint, came to Weil’s attention last November when she discovered a $1,200 “personal

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loan” made to Melara, whom, the complaint says, told Weil he’d borrowed the money to cover his daughter’s tuition at Santo Nino Regional Catholic School and intended to pay her back. Weil tells the police she didn’t approve this loan, though Melara told her business’s bookkeeper that she had; another employee also came forward around that time to tell Weil he’d noticed payroll stub envelopes for non-employees. Day also sent a cease and desist letter to Melara and Garcia Revela’s lawyer, Dan Cron, arguing the new restaurant has infringed upon the trademark Weil’s restaurant has been using since 2001. “Because your clients are using the same or similar mark on the same or simi-

Bumblebee Baja Grill’s lawyer tells SFR that Santa Fe Bees’ branding hits too close to home.

lar products and services, we believe your clients’ use of the mark has caused confusion among our customers and is likely to continue to cause customer confusion,” the letter says. Melara likened the late Bob Weil to a father figure earlier this month in a phone interview with SFR that was included in an overwhelmingly positive review for Santa Fe Bees. He also claimed that he and his brother had been “dismissed” from Bumble Bee’s. “He was like my American dad,” Melara said of Weil at the time. “He was my mentor, and he always treated Jorge and me as his kids. That was a big hit for us, especially since our own dad passed away in El Salvador a few months before, and we couldn’t go down to see him.” Day says it’s all an act. “It’s pretty stunning they’d open what is basically the same restaurant, basically stealing the recipes, the model, the logo—and how far is it [from Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill]? 1/16th of a mile?” Day notes. “The point the family wants to make is that Bumble Bee’s has been there for 21-plus years, and they want to make sure there’s no positive connection to the embezzlers. Barbara Joanne is heartbroken and angered and determined to recover the money that was stolen by these former employees.” Garcia Reveles first appeared in court on the charges against her on Oct. 17; Melara appeared on Oct. 19. Melara did not return messages seeking comment. Cron also did not return a call. “They’re a small family business,” Day says of Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill, “so this loss is significant. They’re not some chain— they’re local.”

2023 Writing Contest

Fiction Theme: For the Family

What fictional families do writers imagine? How can one draw on the senses to take readers inside all of a family’s complexities? Short story entries must include the words: exuberance, pickle and boulder.

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Families form the foundations of people’s lives, whether that word defines a genetic group or connections discovered later in life—or both. Author Kirstin Valdez Quade, the judge for this year’s SFR fiction contest, says the stories exploring families interest her most: from shared history and experiences, to togetherness in the face of uncertain outcomes, and through trauma and drama. Her books The Five Wounds and Night at the Fiestas center around such tales.

Kirstin Valdez Quade

Essay Theme: Multispecies Entanglements BRAD TRONE 2022

In her essay “The Meaning of Life,” Santa Fe author Jenn Shapland writes about how human relationships with other species give richness to life. “We communicate with plants and animals, we care for them, find love and mutual understanding with them,” she writes. The idea of personhood for nonhuman beings, even bodies of water, is a growing field of law—and, Shapland writes, “one of the oldest ideas in the world.” This year’s SFR nonfiction contest, for which Shapland serves as guest judge, seeks essays on the theme “Multispecies Entanglements.” How are humans entangled with other species? How do we fit? What relationships have other writers found with non-human beings? How do human concepts of consciousness, emotion and connection appear in other species—or do they not apply?

Jenn Shapland

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• Enter until midnight Oct. 31, 2023 • $5 fee per entry supports SFR’s journalism mission.

• Three winners in each category win prizes from our partners. • Grand prize winners also each receive a $200 cash prize. • Entries should not exceed 1,800 words.

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RATINGS BEST MOVIE EVER

Killers of the Flower Moon Review

BY ALEX DE VORE a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

Earlier this year, lauded director Martin Scorsese revealed to Time that he’d chosen to rewrite an earlier draft of a screenplay he’d begun for Killers of the Flower Moon, which is based on the 2017 nonfiction book of the same name by David Grann. “After a certain point, I realized I was making a movie about all the white guys,” Scorsese told the magazine, doubling down on the idea that he’d listened to feedback from the Osage people on whose land the film was made and around whom much of the story revolves. If that’s the case, however, one wonders how much whiter his original script was, as Scorsese’s newest film with longtime collaborators Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro still feels pretty dang white. From a bird’s eye view, Killers tells the tale of the 1920s Oklahoma oil boom on Native land that led to a series of heinous murders and, in turn, the formation of the FBI. Here, DiCaprio plays World War I vet Ernest Burkhart, a sort of dimwitted would-be proto-gangster who heads to Oklahoma to live and work with his uncle William (De Niro), a rancher kingpin who tips the scales of commerce in his favor through any means necessary. DiCaprio turns in one of the more nuanced performances of his career as

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In a filmed interview following the Center for Contemporary Arts’ dual screening of shorts Strange Way of Life (2023) and The Human Voice (2020) with director Pedro Almodóvar, the legendary Spanish auteur describes a conversation with his fellow filmmakers during which several thought him mad for tackling shorts and trying to get them into cinemas worldwide. Thankfully, Almodóvar stuck to his guns, because not only is his newest film starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke a concise and enjoyable riff on and hybrid of American and Spaghetti Westerns, it might represent a turning point for our expectations of film in general. He says much in its 31 minutes. Strange Way of Life finds one-time gunslingers/ lovers Silva (Pascal) and Jake (Hawke) reuniting after decades apart and now on separate sides of the law. Jake has become a sheriff for a small town (the set was originally built for Sergio Leone movies!), and Silva has ostensibly arrived to reignite their former romance—only it might be more complicated due to a recent murder for which his son is a suspect. At the risk of citing that post-screening interview again, Almodóvar smartly points out during the conversation how Hollywood directors glamorized the cowboy era in its Western canon, all while sidestepping the possibility of things like colorful clothing, multi-dimensional characters and even queer romance while they were at 28

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the unscrupulous Ernest, and De Niro’s inwardly cold, outwardly loving demeanor feels terrifying. As was the order of the day, Ernest weds a local Osage woman named Mollie Kyle (a brilliant yet underused Lily Gladstone, Siksikaitsitapi and NiMíiPuu) as part of his uncle’s bid to access the oil money heading to her and her people. Whether Ernest truly loves Mollie or not becomes irrelevant, however, the longer he remains accessory to the murders befalling her family and people. But when Mollie heads to Washington, DC, to beg the president for aid, so begins the earliest days of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which comes knocking at Ernest’s door in the form of Breaking Bad alum Jesse Plemons. The rest is pretty typical Scorsese fare, from the anachronistic music that flares in the background of some scenes to the authentic yet not gratuitous violence. Mollie Kyle’s attempts to get answers for her peoples’ murders are central to the Killers’ plot. Pity, then, that Gladstone’s role is so relegated to reactionary or plot device beats. She’s a natural, from her mournful wail in the face of tragedy to her sly expressions that say so much. She more than keeps up with the titanic

it. Oh, sure, we had Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, but cowboy hats do not a Western make, and...oh wait, is Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog a better example? Either way, Strange Way of Life is in rarified air, and a period flick all the way. Being a period thing makes the romantic tension smolder even hotter, leaving Silva and Jake to cast glances so emotionally charged that one wonders if they might consume one another if it weren’t for stupid society. Still, viewers won’t find a leering look at brazen sexuality (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but rather a love-gone-awry story with the heavy spectre of queerness in the 1800s hanging over every exchange. Pascal is in his element here as the fearlessly in-love Silva, while Hawke’s more reserved portrayal of a man navigating emotions as the literal embodiment of the status quo stings deep. Produced by Saint Laurent (yes, that Saint Laurent), Strange Way of Life continues Almodóvar’s exploration of elder masculinity and love (2019’s Pain and Glory with Antonio Banderas was brilliant and sailed in similar if more fleshed-out waters) set in a time we might as well call the Toxic Masculinity Era. Love knows no bounds, however, even when Silva is forced to make the terrible choice between kin and chosen family. Are there higher stakes? Author’s note: Stick around after Strange Way of Life for the screening of Almodóvar’s The Human Voice with Tilda Swinton. Based on Jean Cocteau’s 1928 monodrama of the same name, the 30-minute piece is Swinton solo and at the top of her game in a deceptively simple and modernized take on sense-of-self post-breakup. (Alex De Vore) Center for Contemporary Arts, R, 31 min.

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De Niro and DiCaprio, even if they have about a zillion more lines than her. It’s still nice to see a legend like Tantoo Cardinal playing even a small role; the Indigenous actors who permeate the film are all fine actors across the board—particularly Yancey Red Corn, whose gravitas is palpable. Killers sort of fizzles out toward the end. Some sturdy but anemic performances from the likes of John Lithgow and Brendan Fraser work out OK, but not a one rates as much attention as the core cast. Leo will likely win an Oscar for this one, and Gladstone will surely at least be nominated. If nothing else, though, this is another one of those “representation matters” moments in recent film and TV history that proves Native folks more than deserve their place at the table, just...maybe they should be the ones doing the storytelling if only the old guard would get out of their way long enough to let them soar. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON With Gladstone, DiCaprio, De Niro, Red Corn, Cardinal, Plemons, Fraser and Lithgow Violet Crown, Regal, R, 206 min.

DUMB MONEY

+ FUN AND FUNNY; FASCINATING, BOTH

SOCIALLY AND FINANCIALLY SPEAKING

- PETE DAVIDSON IS TEDIOUS

Orange is the New Black writers Laura Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo team with The Social Network co-scribe Ben Mezrich and I, Tonya director Craig Gillespie for Dumb Money, an almost spiritual successor to Adam McKay’s 2015 finance flick The Big Short, only with more recent touchstones and a far more satisfying conclusion. Viewers should probably brush up on concepts like short selling and short squeezes to fully appreciate what this one’s laying down—or at least know that billionaires, at one point in time, referred to amateur traders as “dumb money,”—but even those not well-versed in market politics will find an enjoyable small-beats-big parable that just plain feels good. Dumb Money tells the real-life story of Keith Gill, aka Roaring Kitty, a one-time financial analyst and social media personality who, in 2021, single-handedly drove up furor surrounding stocks for video game retailer GameStop, which resulted in a massive uptick that ruined at least one hedge fund, exposed investment app Robinhood for scummy business practices and terrified the rest of Wall Street. And though some might balk at the idea of a film dedicated to GameStop and money, it’s honestly fascinating to better understand how things shook out, even if the movie takes artistic liberties (of course it does). Still, the real impacts of Gill’s oncein-a-lifetime machinations will, at least according to

the film, forever impact how people think about the market. The illustriously weird Paul Dano plays Gill with a kind face and gentle delivery that belie his character’s internet persona, but weirdly sell his performance as trustworthy and true. Dano makes Gill lovable, even as his onscreen brother (Pete Davidson) sucks all the air out of the room with ball-busting pseudo humor and brotherly ribbing that takes up valuable time. Shailene Woodley appears as Gill’s wife, though, sadly, she has little to do outside of a brief moment of spousal tension that gets diffused before it even really begins. Elsewhere, a series of interconnected vignettes focused on real-world billionaires like Gabe Plotkin (Seth Rogen), Ken Griffin (Nick Offerman) and Steve Cohen (Vincent D’Onofrio) intermesh with those of new GameStop investors—including an RN (America Ferrera), a collegiate couple (Myha’la Herrold and Talia Ryder) and a GameStop employee (Anthony Ramos of Hamilton fame)—plus the founder-CEOs of Robinhood (Sebastian Stan and Rushi Kota). These sections might be the most fun, particularly when we see the folks from Robinhood stumble in interviews or hem and haw their way through what happened the day they wouldn’t let anyone buy GameStop stocks (not super legal; nothing came of it, sadly). The whole GameStop debacle went before a Congressional committee in the end. And though nobody went to jail and the billionaires mainly just re-structured, the film tells us in a text scroll that the big bad finance bros and babes on Wall Street finally had to take amateur traders seriously. (ADV) Violet Crown, R, 105 min.

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Rob Brezsny

Week of October 25th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Shadow work is a psychological practice that has been deeply healing for me. It involves exploring the dark places in my soul and being in intimate contact with my unripe and wounded aspects. Engaging in this hard labor ensures that my less beautiful qualities never take control of me and never spill out into toxic interactions with people. I bring this up, Aries, because the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to do shadow work. Halloween costume suggestion: Be your shadow, demon, or unripe self.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The earliest known human settlement is Göbekli Tepe, in what’s now the country of Turkey. When archaeologists first excavated it in 1994, they realized it was built over 11,000 years ago. This was shocking news, since it dramatically contradicted previous estimates of how long people have lived in villages. I’m predicting a comparable shift in your understanding of your own past, Libra. The full effect may not be apparent for months, but there will be interesting jolts soon. Halloween costume suggestion: archaeologist, time traveler, or yourself in a past life.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The country where I live, the US, has banned over 2,500 books in recent years. I’m appalled by the ignorance that fuels this idiotic despotism. But there has been an amusing consequence, which I am pleased to report: Banning the books has sometimes hiked their sales. Gender Queer by Maia Kolbabe had a 130 percent increase. Art Spiegelman’s Maus I and Maus II jumped 50 percent. Let this scenario serve as an inspirational metaphor for you in the coming weeks. If any person or institution tries to repress, deny, or resist you, do what you’re doing even bigger and better. Use their opposition as a power boost. Halloween costume suggestion: rebel, dissident, or protestor.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio author Ófeigur Sigurðsson writes, “You should never do what’s expected of you; there’s always another path through life than the one before you.” I wouldn’t recommend his approach to any other zodiac sign but Scorpio. And I would only advocate it for maybe 40 percent of Scorpios 10 percent of the time. The coming weeks will be one of those 10-percent times. So if you are among the 40 percent who would thrive on this demanding but potentially exhilarating counsel, get ready to be as original and imaginative in living your life as you have ever been. Halloween costume suggestion: unicorn, dragon, or phoenix.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Only two items appear more often in the world’s landfills than disposable diapers. They seem to be among the least ecologically sound products. Or maybe not. Japanese researchers at the University of Kitakyushu have made building materials out of them in combination with gravel, sand, and cement. (Read more: tinyurl.com/BetterWaste). In the spirit of this potentially glorious alchemical transmutation, and in accordance with astrological omens, I encourage you to ruminate on how you might convert wasted stuff into usable valuables in your own sphere. Halloween costume CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian comedian Dave suggestion: A janitor or maid wearing a gold crown Barry says that as he grows older, he looks forward to and pearls. “continued immaturity.” That sentiment is probably based CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Of all the ideas propounded on the fact that his humor is often juvenile and silly. (I like it, by major religions, the saddest is the Christian assertion though!) I’m guessing it’s also because he aspires to remain that all of us are born sinful—that we come into this world youthful and innocent and surprisable as he ages. I mention with a corruption that renders us fundamentally flawed: this, fellow Cancerian, because the coming weeks will be an tainted, soiled, guilty, foul. I reject this stupid nonsense. In excellent time to celebrate and honor the parts of you that my spiritual philosophy, we are all born gorgeous, loving are still blooming but not yet in full blossom. Be grateful you geniuses. Tough experiences may diminish our radiance have not become a jaded know-it-all. Would you consider and make it a challenge to be our best, but we never lose revisiting joys you loved as a child and teenager? Halloween the gorgeous, loving genius at our core. In accordance with costume suggestion: your younger self. astrological mandates, your task in the coming weeks is to get into close touch with this pure source. Halloween LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Horseshoes have symbolized good costume suggestion: your gorgeous, loving genius. luck in many cultures. A common usage is to hang them over front doors. But there’s disagreement about the best AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my meticulous way to generate the good fortune. Some people say the analysis of the astrological omens, you now have a sacred open end of the horseshoe should point upward, since that right to expand your ego at least one full size. Even two collects the luck. Others insist it’s best for the horseshoe to sizes will probably be fine. Your guardian angel is lobbying point down, as that showers luck on those who enter and for you to strut and swagger, and so are your muses, your leave the house. If you experiment with this fun myth, I ancestors, and God Herself. I hope you will overcome any advise you to point the open end up. It’s time for you to shyness you feel about expressing your talents, your gather blessings, help, and fortuity. Halloween costume intelligence, and your unique understanding of the world. accessories: good luck charms like a four-leaf clover, acorn, Halloween costume suggestion: a charming braggart, cat’s eye gemstone, ankh, dragon, laughing Buddha, Ganesh charismatic egomaniac, or beautiful narcissist. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do you ever feel you are treated unfairly at your job? Is your workplace sometimes detrimental to your health? Is it possible that a few small changes could add up to a big improvement in how you feel while you’re earning a living? There’s rarely a perfect moment to address these concerns, but the coming weeks will be a more favorable time than usual. If you decide to seek shifts, devise a strategy that’s as foolproof as possible. Resolve to be calm, poised, and unflusterable. Halloween costume suggestion: a worker doing your ideal job

statue, and horseshoe. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There would be no life on earth if it weren’t for the sun. Our home star’s energy is the central force at work in the creation and sustenance of all humans, animals, and plants. Yet we must be sure not to get extravagant amounts of our good thing. An overabundance of solar heat and radiance can cause failed crops, dehydration, droughts, skin cancer, and wildfires. Are other factors at work in your sphere that are also nourishing in moderate amounts but unhealthy in excess? And do you know when just right becomes too much? Now is a favorable time to ruminate on these matters. Halloween costume suggestion: Goldilocks, Lady Justice with her scales, or a body suit adorned with a giant yin and yang symbol.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “The secret for harvesting the greatest fruitfulness and enjoyment is to live dangerously!” Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said that. “Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!” he added. “Send your ships into uncharted seas!” As for you in the coming weeks, Pisces, I don’t recommend you live dangerously, but I do suggest you live adventurously. Surpass your limits, if you dare! Transcend your expectations and explore the frontiers. Those activities will be a good use of your life energy and are likely to be rewarded. Halloween costume suggestions: daredevil, swashbuckler, gambler, fortune-hunter, or knight-errant. Homework: Scare yourself with how beautiful you are. Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com

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