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I am calling the ambience of Opuntia, a “down right magical place to be,” with “gorgeous views of the mountains,” into question, in one par ticularly irritating aspect. Several friends and I are “morning people” and enjoy meeting at a couple favorites for breakfast or early brunch, as a way to launch into our day. So much about breakfast at Opuntia is right for us, except one thing:Loud, intrusive music that’s often (usually) at odds with the food and the space. I actually would enjoy much of what they play, at a dif ferent time of day or in a club, but loud power guitar or wailing Delta blues can really grate on morning customers.
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someone else boosts it up again) to the point that we didn’t have to speak loudly (or, in one instance, should) across the table to each other, the management should give some attention to this. A couple newbies I’ve taken to Opuntia— potential customers—have mulled over wheth er or not to return.
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Is anyone interested in remodeling the Main Library Downtown that is crumbling around us? How can a public building so important to a community be neglected where everyone who visits Santa Fe is bound to walk by? Santa Feans should be Thanksconcerned.foryourreporting. It is very valuable to Santa Fe.
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The move has some parallels to Mark Ronchetti’s choice to ice out a journalist he doesn’t like. But who gets to decide?
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“It made a lot of headlines, and we just looked at each other and said, ‘well, we should have done this 10 years ago, or at the beginning of our lives, but at least we’ve done it now,’” she says.
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Merlino says “the environment and conser vation has always been close to me. And it’s becoming more and more important.”
generation, people are “waking up to the fact that…if we want to leave a better legacy, we need to start doing something more pos itive to our planet.”
Bee Wild Outside (launching soon) placed first in one of benefit corporation Santa Fe Innovates’ idea pitch competi tions last year. Santa Fe Innovates founder Jon Mertz says he’s seen an increasing fo cus on sustainability from startups over the last several years— one likely to grow under the newly formed Center for Responsible Entrepreneurship, a collaboration between Santa Fe Innovates, University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management and the City of Santa Fe.
Economic & Community Development Director Rich Brown says he anticipates “Santa Fe in the near future will be a leader in the focus around sustainability and how it ties into economic development,” large ly “because we understand that we’re an outdoor city, we understand that water is of importance to us, and we un derstand that we have a social responsibility.”Thatconnection between the outdoors and the environment also drives much of the work of the state’s Outdoor Recreation Division, which next month will host its Adventure Pitch competition at the Outdoor Economics Conference in Taos for startups whose “core offering” includes outdoor recreation, environment and/or health and wellness (Merlino was a finalist in last year’s pitch). In a statement provided to SFR, ORD Deputy Director Alyssa Renwick described conservation as one of the department’s “core values,” noting that “building the outdoor recreation economy of New Mexico requires first protecting the very places and spaces the industry relies upon…We see businesses responding to climate change and working to protect the environment in the state in a variety of ways” from “changing business practices towards furthering sustainability to advocating for protections and conservation policies within the state.”
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An accomplished cook, Levbarg immedi ately saw a gap in the Santa Fe vegan restau rant sector and began hatching the idea for her business Liberty Gourmand (liberty gourmand.com), participating in the 2019 BizMIX cohort, while continuing to work full time in real estate. She launched in ear nest six months ago, and now offers pop-up vegan breakfasts, pre-fixe gourmet suppers and a standing pantry where people can order vegan cheeses, burgers, desserts and more.
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eating red meat and chicken when I was 13 solely because I wanted to sit at the vegetarian table at the hip pie summer camp I attended. I never picked up the meat-eating habit again, and gradu ally became glad I had not as the benefits of a vegetarian diet on our imperiled climate became increasingly known.
“I never would have wanted to start a restaurant or food business before this, much as I love cooking,” Levbarg says, “but the pressing nature of what we’re facing re ally kind of…forced my hand with regard to feeling that I don’t have any ethical option but to try to throw everything I personally can at getting as many animals off as many plates as Personalpossible.”andglobal concerns also spurred Ron Edwards, whose business, Focus Advertising Specialties, recently launched the product EMERGENCY-P, a unisex por table urinal, from its Environmentally Sane Solutions division (environmentallysanes olutions.com). A Marine veter an, Edwards also was diagnosed with MS, in 2006 and, by 2017 was having a difficult time with mobility and sometimes reach ing a bathroom in time. The product, Edwards says, is made from both biodegradable and recyclable materials. Initially, Edwards says he was thinking of his peers—other veterans with mobility issues who might need a bathroom alternative—but the product’s broader appeal soon became evident. The en vironment was never far from his mind, particularly water, he says. As far back as 1992, when he was living in Tucson, Arizona, Edwards was thinking about how much water could be saved if people flushed toilets less frequently.BeeWild
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While not fully vegan, I’ve become in creasingly so in the last few years, largely thanks to a close friend who launched a vegan food business (I’d always suspected I’d have an easier time eating vegan if some one else would shoulder the cooking). That friend, Hannah Levbarg, went vegan (as did her husband) after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and learned about the benefits of a whole-food plant-based diet. Shortly thereafter, in 2018, a study from Oxford University researchers provided extensive data showing the positive envi ronmental impact people could have by es chewing meat and dairy.
As executive director of the nonprof it Partnership for Responsible Business, Merlino also works to “identify business es that are interested in being stewards and vocal advocates,” she says. “The busi ness voice is so important in conservation
Alexandra Merlino merged her environmental and entrepreneurial concerns to launch Bee Wild Outside, an eco-friendly mineral sunscreen with zero waste packaging.
Outside founder Alexandra Merlino also brought longstanding environmental concerns coupled with her own skin cancer diagnosis to her quest to create an eco-friend ly mineral sunscreen with zero-waste packaging (beewild outside.com). A self-described “solutions-based entrepreneur,”
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Glenn Schiffbauer, executive direc tor for the Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce, says that rising awareness is reflected across a gamut of businesses initiatives, from uptake of the chamber’s water conservation program, to the rising interest in companies adopting benefit corporation status to what he anticipates as an increase in renewable energy com panies as the state transitions away from reliance on oil and gas.
“Generationally, there’s definitely more desire to see businesses start up and oth erwise be a force for good, whether that’s in some social issues or environmental is sues,” Mertz says. Sometimes, those busi ness ideas grow out of personal experiences by the entrepreneurs, he notes, but “then I think there’s…awareness of what’s happen ing to our climate” and regardless of which
A decade ago, he says, “there was much louder climate denier voice. They kind of went away quietly, because now you see the wildfires…and the flooding, and the in tensity of storms and the rivers drying up.” That’s changed the conversation, he adds, from people “talking about how we’re go ing to see climate change,” to “people re alizing the climate has already changed.”
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menu screens inside the Red Barn Growers cannabis company du tifully display a series of strains and prices, much like at most dispensaries around New Mexico. Up Town Funk and Grim Glue go for $10 per gram at the well-known shop a few miles from the Santa Fe Farmers Market, as do other varieties.
Red Barn seems to be an exception. The company has been stockpiling whole sale cannabis to shore up supply, in antic ipation of a run on product this year, says Executive Director Ellie Besançon, who over sees Red Barn Growers’ operations as well as Green Goods in Albuquerque for Vireo Health, a national cannabis company. But Red Barn hasn’t made a wholesale purchase in about five “Comparedweeks.tosome of the other biggies, we’re kind of a smaller group,” Besançon tells SFR. “And so to keep up with the demands for [recreation al-use cannabis], one of the things that I did was to start stockpiling wholesale, just to ensure that we weren’t going to run out and to ensure that we had that 25% cache for the medical patients.”
“All of this feels normal to me,” Lewinger says. “This feels very normal for a new industry that is trying to get its footing in New Mexico and nationally.”
ers without an independent supply or even a license to grow that buy wholesale.
Red Barn store manager Charlie Sandoval holds about 2 pounds of Motor Mouth, a strain the company recently bought wholesale.
He says in other markets around the country where wholesale prices range from $2 to $4 per gram, retailers can bring in triple profits. But with higher per-gram wholesale prices in New Mexico, Rodriguez estimates retailers are only able to double the price.
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Then, there’s Motor Mouth, which runs $12 per gram.
According to figures compiled by the New Mexico Cannabis Chamber of Commerce, the average wholesale cost of cannabis in New Mexico has dropped by nearly half since mid-summer. But that’s not likely to mean lower retail prices, according to producers who spoke with SFR. What it likely signals, they say, is a more competitive market that is less likely to lead to a long-feared cannabis shortage.Several legacy producers—those com panies that were in operation in the state’s medical program prior to adult-use legaliza tion—tell SFR it’s mostly new cannabis retail
Red Barn and Green Goods were already eating the extra costs of buying wholesale, she says, in order to keep re tail prices around $10 to $12 a gram—a pretty standard rate in New Mexico’s urbanBenareas.Lewinger, executive director of the New Mexico Cannabis Chamber of Commerce, says his figures, which come from members and other busi nesses, show that the price of whole sale cannabis flower dropped from about $10 per gram to about $5.
“When we bring in what we call a guest strain, we don’t price it above our market rate of $8.99,” Rodriguez says. “So it’s unlikely we’re going to buy it at $5 a gram and then price it at $8.99.”
“So, there’s no shortage right now, will there be a glut? Don’t know yet…For the most part, the legacy producers did not need to buyDukewholesale.”Rodriguez, president and CEO of the prominent cannabis company Ultra Health, says he doesn’t expect retail prices to go down, even with wholesale prices dropping. Rodriguez points out that the average wholesale price is just that and costs can fluctuate depending on the quantity in any given wholesale transaction. He says Ultra Health buys manicured buds to add variety and trim to make extracts and edibles, but not much volume compared to what the company grows itself.
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Lewinger prefers the term “fluctu ation” when referring to the decrease and says he agrees the change “does not necessarily mean the price will go down for consumers.” However, he
Lewinger says wholesale price changes are a necessary part of an industry still in its infancy.
The new industry saw more than $40 million in cannabis sales in August, the highest since adult-use sales began in April.
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The difference lies not just in THC con tent and flavor profiles, but in where the buds were grown. Red Barn’s grow facility in Gallup handles much of the lifting, but anoth er licensed cultivator grows Motor Mouth; Red Barn buys it wholesale.
adds, consumers will start to see more variety at the“Wholesalecounter. prices could go back up and go back down,” Lewinger says. “I think part of the challenge is new cultivators and new retailers don’t necessarily have all the con nections they need to get exactly the product theyLenwant.”Goodman, who runs Best Daze, tells SFR that the major decrease in whole sale prices actually shows “we’re not in a shortage.”“There’s some amount of competitiveness going on” in New Mexico’s market, he adds. But Goodman warns that outdoor crops are a few weeks from harvest, which creates some uncertainty.“Whatwe don’t know is how extensive the fall crop is going to be,” Goodman says.
“There is a wholesale market, but I wouldn’t say it’s a very active market,” Rodriguez tells SFR.
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As such, the dangers of one of the largest uranium mines in American history didn’t abate when the dust clouds dissipated.
Across the Navajo Nation—an area larger than 10 US states that touches Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico—nearly 30 million tons of uranium were pulled out of more than 500 mines between 1944 and 1986. That min ing changed the course of history, tilting mil
During his childhood, they’d echo with hoots and hollers: Begay and his 11 siblings rel ished tending to sheep and cattle that roamed bucolic pastures. Other days, they’d shout and cheer: A transplanted Yankees devotee, Begay prowled the batter’s box like DiMaggio at a time when Joltin’ Joe was giving pitchers fits back
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Bob Begay, 85, a former uranium miner who suffers from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, displays two keepsake chunks of radioactive ore in his home on the Navajo Nation in Rough Rock, Arizona.
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As a junior miner for the Vanadium Corporation of America, he spent his days once again roaming the nearby hills: only this time, with the intent of placing dynamite into the belly of those hills known in Navajo as hal ghai yah nal kiid.
“I pray it doesn’t get any worse,” she said. “But what do I do… when it gets full-blown?”
Deep in northern Arizona’s sun-scorched slopes, Bob Begay has been sitting, breathless ly, forDay-to-dayyears.
As a result, when COVID struck in 2020, the Laguna—already afflicted by diseases that made it hard to walk, speak or breathe— were set up for severe COVID, said Loretta Anderson, a home health aide who is Laguna. So many of her people succumbed during the pandemic that the tribe enlarged its graveyard.
Soon enough, Begay had a family of his own. He was committed to making sure they never struggled like he had. “I didn’t want the kids to have a need for anything,” he said.
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life is a struggle. The tight cor ners surrounding his family’s turquoise-paint ed hooghan, the traditional eight-sided dwellings of the Navajo people, don’t lend
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When the alarms sounded, Juanico would hustle to grab the clean garments off the clothesline before she was enveloped by dust clouds. But Juanico’s little legs usually couldn’t get her back to shelter in time.
Today, hundreds of mines lie abandoned across New Mexico’s Indigenous lands. So do scores of eroding radioactive landfills meant to bury uranium mine waste.
themselves to navigation by wheelchair. And the family’s homesite doesn’t have electricity, which has turned his oxygen machine into a glorified paperweight.
As malignant as Begay’s work was for him, his circumstances aren’t exceptional.
Two decades after he first set foot in a mine, Begay started “huffing and puffing” at work. He was in his mid-30s. Crippled by exhaustion just hours into the day, he’d need to take break after break, or bow out of certain jobs at the mine altogether.
It wasn’t until nearly half a century later that he got a full medical work-up, and an ex planation: end-stage lung disease, likely due to uranium exposure. Until then, he explained, he’d never been told of the well-documented dangers, and his employers never gave him a shred of protective gear.
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For all his struggles, Begay knows he’s not alone. The 85-year-old has watched friends and neighbors die one after another following years of similar symptoms. So, Begay’s afraid of what lies ahead.
Buteast.their single mother struggled to make ends meet amid the fallout of the Great Depression, and the children often went hun gry. By age 10, Begay was working full time dyeing, stretching and tying wool for the fam ily’s rug-weaving enterprise. And by 14, he was coming home covered in dust containing the radioactive ingredients for the most powerful weapon known to mankind.
That’s when the yellow-flecked dust— emerging from detonations in the sacred mesa the Laguna tribe knows as Squirrel Mountain—would catch up to her. That’s when it would enter Juanico’s throat, burrowing deep into her lungs.
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Federal guidance and state data suggest the same is true for thousands of Navajo and Acoma who were exposed to uranium before suffering life-threatening cases of COVID.
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s a young girl, Arlene Juanico would rush to gather the laundry before the explosions started.
It’s the same dust she would confront when, as an adult, she worked for the Anaconda Copper Co.
And it’s the dust that would persist in her lungs, kidneys and bones. There, hidden in the dark recesses of her chest, the particles lay un til one day decades later a CT scan would show Juanico and people like her why they hadn’t been able to take a full breath in decades. They’d get a similar diagnosis—idiopathic pul monary fibrosis—one mangled lung at a time.
“Many of those we lost through COVID had underlying conditions,” Anderson said. “This is the reason many of them have died.”
Things in these glimmering white hills weren’t always so bleak.
Now, these communities fear what the future holds for their wellbeing, health and culture.That leaves Juanico, who is 66 years old and can barely crest the slope at her ances tral home overlooking bluffs where explo sions once raged without becoming short of breath—concerned for her own health.
These days—no longer able to bathe or dress himself, and speaking with frequent pauses between sentences to sneak in a breath— Begay laments his decision to work in the“Itmines.follows me every day of my life,” he said.
A sign with a skull and crossbones that translates as ‘No uranium’ in the Diné language warns visitors near the Church Rock mining site in Navajo Nation.
These cases are what Christensen calls “secondary exposures,” in reference to the diseases locals developed despite having nev er worked at the mines themselves. Cases such as these often go undiagnosed and un treated, Christensen added.
“There’s kids that are still being exposed,”
Since that study, doctors have further nailed down the association between the flu orescence-smeared, corn-colored rock and life-threatening disease.
That’s partly because there was no univer sal screening program for uranium workers such as miners, millers and transporters until 2002, nearly six decades after the first mine opened.Even with that program, which is avail able at only two sites in New Mexico, people’s ability to access care depends on their ability to travel, said Loretta Christensen, the chief medical officer of IHS. That’s a considerable obstacle for a community where one in three people live in poverty—and often have limit ed transportation access while facing tight gas budgets. It is also an environment where ferocious weather routinely makes the pot hole-ridden, oft-flooded roads impassable.
Arlene Juanico, 66, gestures toward Squirrel Mountain, the location of the Jackpile Mine, from the hill behind her childhood home in the village of Paguate, 60 miles west of Albuquerque.
Moreover, Christensen said, even when people can get to these sites, the facilities are frequently ill-equipped to diagnose and treat diseases caused by uranium, and often lack the equipment they’d need to make such a diagnosis.And,beyond the program, according to Christensen, doctors don’t routinely bring up mining or uranium exposure.
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itary dominance westward one atomic bomb at aButtime.that pursuit of nuclear supremacy came at the expense of many Indigenous peo ple like Begay. Calculating just how many is a daunting task.
Nonetheless, given the lack of compre hensive screening, the absence of data on pri mary, secondary and tertiary victims means the actual burden of uranium-related illness, while vast, is unknown. It means that when people like Begay’s friends and colleagues died—or when his children and grandchil dren do—nobody can definitively prove whether uranium played a role.
“We actually tell our providers, you need to ask if…they lived near a mine or a dispos al site,” Christensen said. “We need to have a higher level of suspicion.”
The Indian Health Service estimates that approximately 4,000 Navajo worked in the mines. But advocates say that statistic leaves out the vast majority of people who have suf fered—or will suffer—from diseases linked to uranium exposure. It doesn’t count the many who inhaled the toxic dust when it blew off their loved ones’ clothes or stained their laun dry or emanated from the clay foundations of theirThehomes.IHS stat also doesn’t include urani um mining’s impact on other tribes such as Laguna, Acoma and Hopi whose loved ones worked in mines like Jackpile at Squirrel Mountain, which contributed 25 million tons of uranium over some 30 years.
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to exposed mothers, suggesting that urani um may be passed through placental blood, breast milk or other sources.
Garrett Vallo, an Acoma member of an intertribal coalition advocating for uranium victims, said that the gaps in medical data and health systems for people who worked in the mines mean that they are often going years without the care they need.
or hugging a miner dad just home from work.
After watching miner after miner in the Viennese Alps cough up blood while working day and night in the pits, the two Austrian doctors sent a manuscript back from snowy Schwartzenberg to metropolitan Berlin. Their study of the mines of Schneeberg found that 75% of lung cancer cases were “at the ex pense” of the uranium mines.
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All told, across New Mexico, the number of secondary survivors filing for health care claims due to uranium exposure is 53% high er than the number of uranium workers who haveFinally,filed. there are the tertiary survivors, Christensen said: those who continue to live on the toxic land, inhaling the dust and drink ing the water 40 years after the last block of uranium ore came out of the ground.
“I know a lot of people who were miners who died,” he said, “and who we never knew anything else about.”
By the late 1870s, Friedrich Harting and Walther Hesse had seen enough.
said Begay. “When is it going to end?”
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There are also “intergenerational” conse quences, Christensen said: IHS studies have found elevated uranium levels in infants born
That is, Vallo explained, if they ever get the care at all.
Without that data, people tend to simply attribute those deaths to old age or natural causes, Vallo said. “They don’t think twice.”
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By 1959—decades before universal work place protections were enforced for uranium workers—the United States Public Health Service had established its own connection between the nuclear ore and lung cancer. Years of study since have further confirmed how the toxic metal and the radioactive fire balls it releases—alpha particles and gamma rays—can cause everything from widespread lung scarring to kidney failure to DNA muta tions producing Fast-forwardcancer.toMarch 2020.
The dangers don’t stop with those who worked in the mine.
They include people like Begay’s daugh ter, Rita, who lived near the mines. People who inhaled the dust while playing outdoors,
The same appears to be true elsewhere. In Laguna Pueblo, the agency has conducted soil removals, foundation renovations, radio active waste abatements and demolitions at dozens of homes that were contaminated by uranium. Sean Hogan, a manager for the EPA who oversees these territories, described the ongoing contamination as “widespread and significant.”Inaddition to the locations awaiting cleanup, there’s concern that even sites pur portedly secured through tailings piles—in which radioactive ore is collected and buried, coffin-like, below mounds of dirt—are no lon gerForsafe.example, there’s the tailings pile that sits yards away from the cluster of lodges nes tled in a valley between two red rock ridges where Perry and Henry Tso grew up in Tse Tah,ThoughArizona.the
Vallo, in Acoma, witnessed a similar phe nomenon. “These people had health condi tions that, when the COVID hit them, it took them so quickly,” he said.
Yet when COVID tore through the Navajo Nation and other Indigenous lands in the spring of 2020, the decades-long legacy of uranium poisoning didn’t figure into public healthDataconversations.thatCapital & Main obtained from the New Mexico Department of Health re veals just how deadly this legacy may have been for Indigenous peoples across the state.
“They didn’t have a fighting chance.”
ploitation by Anglos that followed.
When the Tso brothers walk up and down the pile with a Geiger counter—over half a century after uranium was last mined in the area—it detects levels of radiation far above the EPA’s safety thresholds. Whether that’s due to years of dust storms and flash floods, or to faulty construction in the first place, the brothers say the result is the same: They’re exposed, their loved ones are exposed, and their land is poisonous.
waterways that left one family member after another debilitated with uranium-associat ed disease, or dead from it. A mess that’s left the cottonwood-shaded dale of his childhood uninhabitable.“Thefactthat I go out there, and I don’t have family to greet me… it hurts,” Yazzie said.
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Anderson, in Laguna, knew dozens of former miners who died of the virus. At one point, she said, so many were dying of COVID that the pueblo had to expand the cemetery.
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When Dariel Yazzie peers across the butte-studded vistas of Monument Valley, he sees two things: the magisterial home of his shinálí, or paternal grandfather, that reaches back as far as his people’s stories can tell, and the enduring shadow of uranium.
As of March 2022, Indigenous peoples were hospitalized for COVID up to six times more often than any other demographic group, and up to five times more likely to have underlying kidney and lung disease. They were also up to nine times more likely to end up on a ventilator—and up to seven times more likely to die—than any other group.
Early in the COVID pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a list of conditions that make people especially vulnerable to hospitalization and death from the virus. On that list? Lung scar ring. Kidney failure. Cancer.
His paternal grandfather, Luke Yazzie, contracted out his lands for mining, which is why he is widely credited with introducing uranium mining to the region—the first dom ino to fall in the decades of extraction and ex
EPA does not routinely re view the integrity of tailings piles these days, Hogan said that erosion continues to uncover highly radioactive material.
“There were so many Band-Aid jobs,” Henry said. “We’re still suffering over here.”
ABOVE: Kyle Swimmer, a member of Laguna Pueblo’s Superfund Research Program, samples water in the Rio Puerco, a tributary of the Rio Grande located on the tribe’s land, for uranium runoff. BELOW: Two Navajo children brandish a protest placard while staffing a snack station at a gathering of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Navajo Nation and the EPA in Church Rock.
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Yazzie has a long history with the stuff.
& Main from the federal EPA illustrates just how ubiquitous uranium contamination is across Navajo lands. Screening data found that hundreds of structures were located near mines, and that the majority of mines leached into nearby surface water and groundwater wells that locals drink from. Nearly 40% of the mines were located by homes.
Federal officials also acknowledge the ongoing public health impact of uranium
Yazzie spent his adult life working for the Navajo Environmental Protection Agency, trying to understand uranium’s toll on his shinálí’s—and tribe’s—land. And, trying to clean up the mess that the white men, or bi lagáana, left in their wake. A mess of aban doned mines, toxic runoff and contaminated
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For example, Jackpile—the mother lode in Paguate near Juanico’s home —has been mired in EPA bureaucracy for over a decade while it is considered for comprehensive “su perfund” cleanup.
“There is literally no time to waste.”
Meanwhile, with her people getting sicker each day, Anderson is concerned for the heri tage they’ve fought so hard to protect.
Under the benefits programs, “Congress gives you a recipe: This is how you prove ill ness,” Martinez said, “[but] I think the rules are more about how the legislation was passed than about medicine or science.”
Both the Department of Justice and the Department of Labor—in a tacit admission that the government-fueled uranium boom led to these casualties of the Cold War—offer compensation programs for people who have been poisoned by uranium.
Among them are people like Juanico and Anderson—who worked in the same mines doing the same jobs and developing the same diseases as the others—but after the benefits programs’ 1971 cutoff date.
They also exclude people like Edison Bia, who lugged the same uranium ore without protective equipment during cleanup efforts that have continued in the decades since the mines
Fresh flowers mark the graves of recently buried members of the tribe, many of whom succumbed to COVID-19, at the Laguna Pueblo cemetery. The tribe expanded the cemetery in response to the COVID-19 death toll.
The situation is similar for the Northeast Church Rock mine—the subject of a recent NRC visit—that has been awaiting thor ough cleanup since the 2000s. At a hearing at Church Rock in April, the NRC’s Hanson highlighted “the tremendous sacrifice the Navajo Nation has made for the security and prosperity of the US” in a call to action.
“Literally No Time to Waste”
Dariel Yazzie, left, listens to testimonials of former uranium mine workers and residents near the Church Rock mine site at a gathering of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Navajo Nation and the EPA in April.
In total, the Labor Department has reject ed nearly half of claims filed in New Mexico, and the DOJ has rejected over one-third of claims filed by mine workers across the coun try. (State data is not publicly available.)
Andclosed.theyexclude people like Rita Begay, who never worked in the mines but was ex posed just by living where, and when, she did.
But these programs are often inaccessi ble, said attorney Kevin Martinez, since the bar for proving employment at a mine and proving the health consequences of uranium exposure half a century later is frequently set extremelyMartinez,high.who has filed hundreds of legal
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claims on behalf of uranium victims, says that for decades “the levels of exposure required to prove a claim was [practically] impossible.”
New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján, a Democrat who has pushed for expansion of the benefits programs, said in a statement after the June extension that, “The federal government must…deliver long-overdue jus tice for families in New Mexico and across the nation who know the pain and sorrow caused by radiation exposure.”
“If you put your hand over a flame,” she added, “your hand will continue to burn un less you remove your hand, or you turn off the flame.”
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gotten them in the first place, if they were paid informally in cash by one of the many now-untraceable mining companies. Missing other documents—like birth, death, marriage or divorce certificates, which are not typical in Indigenous oral traditions—also can ex clude victims or survivors from the programs.
Today’s Laguna, whose roots trace back to 6500 BC, proudly carry the torch for genera tions of expert farmers, exquisite ceramists and fierce warriors. But since 1952—since Jackpile began polluting their water, poison ing their land and sickening their young and old alike—the Laguna legacy has been fading.
This investigation was supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s Impact Fund for Reporting on Health Equity and Health Systems. The story was produced by Capital & Main in collaboration with USA Today.
U nless we’ve mitigated every single mine and cleaned up every tailings pile, [exposure] is going to go on .
Moreover, the programs, which were re cently renewed for two more years, continue to exclude large numbers of people who were exposed to uranium.
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Despite the past and present risks of the urani um exposure for victims and survivors, many feel that there’s nowhere to turn for help.
“Unless we’ve mitigated every single mine and cleaned up every tailings pile, [exposure] is going to go on,” Christensen said.
But until those cleanups happen, families like the Yazzies will face continued displacement from their ancestral lands.
Often, Martinez said, “There might be a challenge proving somebody’s employment,” since they may not have hung onto the neces sary contracts or pay stubs decades after leav ing the job. Or because they may never have
exposure. Contamination is “definitely a problem of the present,” said Christopher Hanson, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the federal oversight body tasked with protecting public health related to radioactive materials. “You can’t escape thatRadiationhistory.” levels register over 2 millirems per hour on a Geiger counter at a uranium tailings pile located in Henry and Perry Tso’s childhood backyard on the Navajo reserva tion. The EPA says that’s over 100 times the expected background radiation level for the region.The cumulative exposure suggests future generations could be saddled with crippling health conditions that could make them sim ilarly vulnerable to the ongoing COVID pan demic. Or, to the next pandemic.
At the same time, advocates continue to stress the urgency of environmental cleanups that have been stuck in the administrative process for many years.
“We’re losing our people,” Anderson said.
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In the meantime, they cannot herd their once prolific flocks, nor cultivate their corn fields, nor harvest the corn pollen for prayer. It means a loss of culture, tradition and identity.“Ihear my grandparents saying… Grandson, your umbilical cord is buried here at the horse corral, this is where you’re from, this is where you’re bound to,’” Yazzie said. “We want to come home.”
Loretta Christensen, chief medical officer of IHS
is a best-selling author and award-winning science and math communicator. A professor at Cornell University, he is an applied mathematician working in nonlinear dynamics and complex systems.
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Something about New Mexico’s blood-soaked history seems to make our state an incubator for sick-ass metal bands, and something about the deserty goodness seems to call to the other metal acts from faraway lands. That is to say, we’ve got a rich metal history around here, and the upcoming return of the Mono lith on the Mesa festival oughta show you what we’re talking about. Across three soul-shattering days, find performances from some of the biggest names in all of metal-dom, including Stöner and Eyehategod—plus New Mexico acts like Heretical Sect and Blue Heron sweeten the deal. It all takes place in Taos and it all rocks so hard we can almost feel it reverberating through time from the future. Woah. Metal rules. (ADV)
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It’s not every day we get a chance to attend a concert from a bonafide international phenomenon, so allow us to raise awareness for Guinea’s Prince Diabaté. The legend goes something like this: Diabaté came up learning the music of the Malinke from his father, Djéli Sori, but a chance encounter with Jimi Hendrix jams at age 16 changed everything. Diabaté would enter an international kora competition (the kora, of course, being a traditional Malinke instrument not unlike a hybrid harp/ guitar), win the thing, and forever become known as an absolute master. Cut to today, and he travels the world blowing minds, pulling from traditional and contemporary influences and changing how we think about and hear world music. Diabaté comes to Santa Fe this week—aren’t you dying to know more already? (ADV)
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Rossen has appeared in Santa Fe before for the cause with his full band, but his solo work marks a sonic change for the sing er-songwriter. On his solo debut, You Belong There from earlier this year, the complex compositions folks know from Grizzly Bear remain intact, only he’s spread out into other forms of instrumentation beyond guitar and vocals, like woodwinds, upright bass and cel lo. Had the pandemic not happened, he tells SFR, he might have been in the studio in Los Angeles in March of 2020. As it stands, what he created feels more singular and unique to a time and place. As for his contributions to the Noise For Now cause, Rossen says, he’s mainly in awe of his wife.
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Still, with Reunity Resources quietly be coming one of the more exciting concert venues in town and Rossen’s evolving mag ic, you’d be hard-fought to find a more en joyable way to support people who can get pregnant. And it won’t end there.
If you’ve been keeping track of Santa Fean Amelia Bauer’s excellent work with her Noise For Now nonprofit, which seeks to raise funds for reproductive rights through various artis tic outings—mainly kickass concerts—you’ll know that since its inception in 2017, Bauer and company have raised over $730,000 for 46 organizations. If you didn’t know that but still caught TV on the Radio, Bon Iver, TuneYards or others in recent years, you’ve got Bauer and Noise For Now to thank.
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And the tradition continues this week, when Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear (also Bauer’s husband) takes to the Reunity Resources Farm to delve into his ever-grow ing solo catalog while generating bucks for three New Mexico organizations: Indigenous Women Rising, the Mariposa Fund and the New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. Each helps in the fight for reproductive health in a post-Roe world from varying angles, with Indigenous Women Rising having recently opened up its September abortion fund for applications, the Mariposa Fund working with the undoc umented and the NMRCRC aiding in travel to New Mexico for those who live in states with tougher abortion laws or outright bans.
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“I know Amelia has been interested in do ing smaller events—not everything has to be a massive show or campaign,” Rossen adds.
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Explore New Mexico's Governor's Mansion, also known as "The People's House," on selected dates by appointment. See period furnishings and fine art on loan from NM museums in this beautiful and historic residence. To make an appointment, check out the link above.
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ST JOHN’S COLLEGE SANTA FE Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series
Mark Pomilio’s art references the forces and geometries of the natural world over a career that spans more than two decades.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat
LewAllen Galleries
10 am–6 pm, Mon-Fri, free
DANCE
12-3 pm, free HOTLINE B(L)INGO
THE CHANGING WEST Victory Contemporary 124 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-8589
725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800
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Historian Christian Saiia leads lively talks on many historical and cultural topics. This is followed by a short optional walk around the storied Santa Fe Plaza.
Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711
LIEN TRUONG: FROM THE EARTH RISE RADIANT BEINGS
7 am-9 pm daily, free MORTAL HIGHWAYS
TACK ROOM
10 am-5 pm, daily
GOVERNOR'S MANSION TOUR
10 am-5 pm, Wed-Mon, free
Plein Air Painters exhibit up to 75 original works at the Abiquiú Inn.
SKIP MAGNUMSTEINWORTH:OPUS
1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250
All Day, free
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700
One Mansion Dr, (505) 476-2800
ENTREFLAMENCO
No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon nonamecinema.orgSt.
A fresh cup of coffee and, perhaps, a new perspective.
El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302
Turner Carroll Gallery
9 am-5 pm daily, free WORKING WITH KIN form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 780-8312
Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134
725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800
MILAGRO PAINTERS
7 Arts Gallery 125 Lincoln Ave. (505) 437-1107
Photography of New Mexico’s highway roadside memorials gathered over the last 10 years. 9 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free PAINTING DEADLINES
Bold explorations of color and form and staunch repudiation of Orientalist stereotypes.
Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888
Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez do the flamenco thing. 6:15 pm, $25-$45
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Staged as a typical tack area of a ranch barn, farm or stable, the installation recasts deconstructed painting and drawings as equine equipment and accessories.
THE LYRICAL CONCEPTUALANDDANCE
12-2 pm, free
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35 Degree North 60 E San Francisco St. (505) 983-6138
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Praised for a “rich, natural sound that’s larger and more complex than the sum of its parts,” (NPR) New York Polyphony is one of the foremost vocal chamber ensembles active today. The four men, “singers of superb musicianship and vocal allure,” (The New Yorker) give vibrant, modern voice to repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant to cutting-edge compositions.
Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave (505) 455-6882
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New work by painters John Tarahteeff and Willy Bo Richardson.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
Peyton Wright Gallery 237 E Palace Ave. (505) 989-9888
10 am–6 pm, Sat-Thurs; 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free
Yank has formulated and fabricated sculpture for outdoor sites throughout the Mountain States and beyond.
Abiquiú Inn 21120 Hwy. 84, Abiquiú (505) 685-4378
It's bingo time. Bingo to the death, bingo till the cows come home.
Oil sketches by Deborah Allison.
11 am-5 pm, Fri-Sun $10
An exhibition of 20th Century photo postcards.
THERE ARE NO ENDINGS
MARK POMILIO: APPLIED ABSTRACTIONS
An exhibition of new works by Donald Roy Thompson, who focuses on the relationship of colors to one another.
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Painter Terry Gardner displays the West in its historical crossroads.
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MURAL ARTS WEDNESDAYSJAM
Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700
KAREN YANK
10 am–6 pm, Mon-Fri; 10 am-5pm, Sat. free
Kickass painter Heidi Brandow curated this show featuring her own work plus that of Jamison Chas Banks, Nigel Paul Conway, Eliza Naranjo Morse and Alex Peña
Alas de Agua Art Collective 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 alasdeagua.com
New Mexico Governor's Mansion
With Actor Cliff Russell
Would you say there’s any reason that kept you coming back, or something you learned during your run you’ll carry with you?
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I met a lot of wonderful people, and I hope the friendships I made will last me until I go to the grave. It’s been a variety of people in that show. Some kept coming back, some liked it—like the hero in this year’s Melodrama, whose name is Felix Cordova, has been involved for the last 10 years—[other actors] have been in several Melodramas. Some keep coming back, but some of them just come and go.
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I’d seen melodramas before, and these started out to be very similar to the old-time melodramas, and then they gradually changed into more of a political thing. A satire, you could say. It was always different, though, it was never the same. Some of the sets were spectacular, some were more simple. They were always spectacular.
I feel pretty good for an 87-year-old man. Because I’m 87, I’m starting to get a little bit worn down. I’m not as steady on my pins as I used to be. But I’ve just loved doing it. That’s all I can say—that I really loved it a lot.
It depends on what goes on. I keep looking at the auditions, and I look at the characters they have and none of them are quite my age. Back when I was 79, I played a 60-year-old, and now that I’m 87, I’m playing 100-year-olds. But I have done movies, and I have done TV.
Y’know, that’s something I might pursue if the situation is right. I’d prefer it to be in Santa Fe, though. And I prefer Westerns. I’ve done a lot of Westerns: I worked with Kevin Costner on Wyatt Earp, and I also worked on his first Western, Silverado. But also, I’ve been retired from the Post Office for 28 years, so really I think I’m gonna just keep on enjoying my retirement. I’ve lived in Santa Fe for 46 years. I’m not going anywhere. My next home is the National Cemetery. [As for the theater], I would just like to say—keep on coming back.
Regular patrons of the Santa Fe Playhouse’s annual Fiesta Melodrama are sure to recognize at least a few recurring faces year after year. They’re the folks who bring the show, which famously riffs on Santa Fe’s foibles, to life. Among them is Cliff Russell, a mainstay of the show in that way where you almost can’t recall a time he wasn’t involved. Russell has, in fact, brought so many characters to life since his first appearance on the Playhouse stage in 2001, and now it’s kind of the end of an era. Seeing how the current run of the show marks its 100th—which also inspired its anonymous writing team to poke fun at the Melodrama itself—Russell has decided it’s a great time to go out with a bang rather than with a whimper; when the curtain falls on that final performance later this week, it’ll also close the book on Russell’s longstanding involvement. Russell’s done a lot of things over the years, like working for the US Postal Service and serving nearly four years in the Navy, but we think it’s pretty dang notable he’s been a part of Santa Fe’s silly Melodrama for so long. So we called him up to learn how it’s been, how he got his Screen Actors Guild card, why the time to leave felt right and what’s next for an actor who didn’t even start treading the boards until his mid-60s. Catch Russell and the rest of the Melodrama gang as they take the show on the road this week to the Santa Fe Public Library Southside Branch (6 pm Wednesday, Sept. 14 and Thursday, Sept. 15. Free. 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2580) and the final performance at The Bridge@Santa Fe Brewing Co. (7:30 pm, Saturday, Sept. 18. $15-$75. santafeplayhouse.org), after which Russell’s castmates, friends and family will send him off in style with a beer-fueled afterparty. This interview has been edited for clarity and space. (Alex De Vore)
I became [Screen Actors Guild]-eligible on a TV show called The Night Shift about a hospital in San Antonio—but it was filmed in ABQ. That’s where I got to be SAG-eligible, because I finally got some lines. I...finally got lines.
What do you think you’ll do now? Will you keep acting? In television or film, perhaps?
How do you feel now knowing that your tenure is coming to an end?
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Musical textures from the Fouta and Pulaar regions of Guinea and Northern Mali. (See SFR Picks, page 17)
Learn about the region from docents. Learn on trains—that’s what we always say.
Band director Scott Barnhart leads the ensembleGrammy-winningacrosstunesfrom the great Count Basie. Masks are encouraged.
The blues are alive and well through Buddy Guy and John Hiatt. Cool roots tunes, too. Look, you know the names, might as well go to the show, huh?
Blues, blues and more blues.
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The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place (505) 557-6182
An aspiring actress hits the town in NYC, turning every interaction into a delightful screwball comedy. 8 pm, $25
319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
Sky Railway 410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759
Country. 7 pm, free WILCO Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900
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Classic karaoke options at Boxcar. It's pretty self-explanatory. No more Journey, though. Journey at karaoke is over. Deal with it, America. 10 pm, free
SECOND CHANCES A COUNTRY BAND
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For students ages 11-15, this class offers instruction on trapeze, lyra, fabric and rope—students may choose which they'd like to focus on, or try them all! 5:30 pm, Mon; 11:15 am Sat, $24-$114
Alternative and indie tunes. 4-6 pm, free PRINCE DIABATÉ AND FRIENDS
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An acoustic guitar master who’s just, like, all sick. 4-6 pm, free
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Get free admission to this specific touring production on the Santa Fe Playhouse’s annual Fiesta Melodrama. This year, the show itself gets put on trial and who knows what’ll happen. 6 pm, free
Yardmasters assist with the specialized horticultural care in the Railyard Park. Bring your own gloves and dress for the weather.
ALPANA DEMONSTRATION
Meow Wolf’s flagship Santa Fe location unveils three new permanent installations, including a collaboration with artists Virgil Ortiz, Jacob Fisher and Lauren YS (aka Squidlicker). 7 pm, $5
16TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL: COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234
7:30 pm, $48-$109
BOOKS/LECTURES
530BoxcarSGuadalupe St. (505) 988-7222
All Day, Free-$150
Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596
The Melvins are one of modern music’s most influential bands. They shred. They shred so dang hard. We cannot oversell how hard this band shreds.
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Santa Fe Public Library: Southside Brance 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2580
This show sold out ages ago, but you can always look around online for tickets. Godspeed! 7:30 pm, $43-$87
A social hour and pop dance party followed by a set with the fabulous Santa Fe DJ, The Muse. Leave all hetero privilege at the door!
7:30 pm, $20-$25
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Two-man country. 7 pm, free
Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900
Submission doesn’t guarantee inclusion.
6-9 pm, free BRENNA LARSEN 319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
REUNITY QUEER NIGHT Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196
ALEX MURZYN QUARTET Club Legato (La Casa Sena) 125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232
7 pm, $21
Check out this live demonstration constructing Alpana art. Open to the public all day, but note the piece will be dismantled at sunset. There’s something in there about accepting things. 9-10 am, free
THEATER HURRICANE MEGAN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601
6-10 pm, free
SKY LORERAILWAY:OFTHELAND
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Learn to laugh at a big 'ol funny festival that takes over pretty much the entirety of Santa Fe’s Railyard.
TEEN TWEEN AERIALS
Are you a youth? Do you love mimicking war on boxes? Youth Chess Club is calling you.
5:30-8 pm, free
CLOUDTOP COMEDY FESTIVAL Santa Fe cloudtopcomedy.comRailyard
BUDDY GUY AND JOHN HIATT & THE GONERS
10 am-Noon, free
KARAOKE NIGHT
11:30 am, $119 YARDMASTERS
Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B. (505) 992-2588
Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000
7:30 pm, $49-$75
You can count on La Casa Sena’s Club Legato to bring you all the jaaaaaaazzzzzzzz.
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
SECOND CHANCES A COUNTRY BAND La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511
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La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511
145BranchWashington Ave. (505) 955-6780
MEOW WOLF PRESENTS: ROTATIONS: MEET THE ARTISTS WITH VIRGIL ORTIZ, JACOB FISHER AND LAUREN YS SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199
You know the drill.
WORKSHOP
FRAN DE ANDA: ORACLE (OPENING)
SKY SANTARAILWAY:FESCENIC
Catch a glimpse of the beautiful Santa Fe scenery.
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More than 45 artists along the Turquoise Trail open up their studios for people to come and hang and check out the stuff they do—y’know...art stuff. Hit gmail.comturquoiusetrailstudiotour@formore. 10 am-5 pm, free
3-5 pm, free
CLOUDTOP COMEDY FESTIVAL
The NYC-based singer-songwriter comes to town.
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The local comedy fest returns after two years of pandemic bullshit slowing it down. All Day, Free-$150
Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234
A virtual discussion regarding Taylor's photo exhibit, My 10Americaam,free
A photographic collaboration within the natural landscape with indigenous snakes rescued for safe relocation.
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INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY DAY Ragle Park 2530 W Zia (505) 660-4210
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Catch the Grammy-nominated post-bop saxophonist (and son of John and Alice Coltrane).
Children’s yoga with all ages invited.
TGIF CONCERT
Santa Fe Public Library: Southside Brance 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2580
WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL
Sky Railway 410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759
DANIEL ROSSEN Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196
8-11 pm, free
MUSIC
Various TurquoiselocationsTrail,NM-14
CURRY SPRINGER DUO
5:30 pm, free
Weekly outdoor art market. 9 am-2 pm, free
FOMA Gallery 333 Montezuma Suite B (210) 288-4740
MY AMERICA: TALK WITH RASHOD TAYLOR
This festival lineup is focused on heavy riff-rock acts from across multiple sub-genres. (See SFR Picks, page 17)
In the West Casitas, north of the water tower 1612 Alcaldesa santafeartistsmarket.comSt.
Author Maya Payne Smart is here for an afternoon of kid-friendly reading and conversation.
7:45 pm, $139
1:30 pm, $109-$119
Acoustic rock ‘n’ roll. 1-3 pm, free
Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708
Dances, music, food, giveaways, crafts and face painting. Don’t forget your lawn chairs and sitting blankets.
The ever-illustrious Sin Nombre Brass Ensemble gets so so brassy.
8 pm, $28-$32
16TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL: RAVI COLTRANE
It’s pretty here by train.
Rock, blues, Americana and sass.
10:30 am, free
319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
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Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
7:30 pm, $39-$65
Waiting Game, and beyond. Masks are encouraged. 7:30 pm, $49-$75
16TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL: TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON & SOCIAL SCIENCE
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
New artworks by Jennifer and Kevin Box, who pioneered Origami in the Garden. It’s, like, sculptures, man, but that look like origami. Far out! 5-7 pm, free
SNAKE/WOMAN OPENING NIGHT!
MONOLITH ON THE MESA Taos Mesa Brewing 20 ABC Mesa Road, El Prado (575) 758-1900 ext.1
After two years of virtual programs, the Wild & Scenic Film Fest can again be experienced by a live audience. The films might inspire festival-goers to join the global groundswell of environmental action. Wild and Scenic helps support year-round watershed conservation efforts. Hit up rickettsap@gmail.com for more. 6 pm, $15
HURRICANE MEGAN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601
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Things kick off with a conversation with retired NEA Deputy Chairman AB Spellman release,crewCarrington—thendrummer/producer/educatorandsheandhergetjazzywithhernew
Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234
All Day, free
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11 am-2pm Tues-Fri; 11am-3pm Sat; or by appointment
More comics than we can fit all throughout the Railyard. All Day, Free-$150
Santa Fe cloudtopcomedy.comRailyard
10 am-5 pm, $10-$12
7:30 pm, $20-$25
A train ride that comes with some mighty fine views of the stars in the sky.
Santa Fe cloudtopcomedy.comRailyard
Mexico City Fran De Anda brings eight new oil and gold leaf pieces to Santa Fe that explore concepts of death, transitions, alchemy and beyond. 5 pm, free
8-11 pm, free
Noon-12 am, $60-$150
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READING FOR OUR LIVES: A LITERACY ACTION PLAN FROM BIRTH TO SIX Modern General Feed + Seed 637 Cerrillos Rd (505) 930-5462
GABRIEL KAHANE
11 am-2 pm, $120
Noon-4 pm. free
ALBERT CUMMINGS
MONOLITH ON THE MESA Taos Mesa Brewing 20 ABC Mesa Road, El Prado (575) 758-1900 ext.1
Rossen of indie titans Grizzly Bear (but whom, we’ve learned, is not himself a grizzly bear) hits eclectic acoustic styles and elevates his voice to new heights.
LATIN JAZZ CONTINUUM
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Theater Grottesco streams an edited, multi-camera showing of SHORTS 5 from September 16–25. The production will be available for free on Theater Grottesco's website, and note that this isn’t your grandma’s easy old super-accessible theater. This one’s for people who want to dig deep and come away with something...we don’t even know.
6-9 pm, free
SANTA FE RENAISSANCE FAIRE
319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
Kay Contemporary Art 600 Canyon Road (505) 365-3992
4:30 pm, $109-$119
CARRIED AWAY (OPENING)
Metal as fuck. (See SFR Picks, page 17)
Here comes the blues.
Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511
YOGA FOR KIDS
JJ & THE HOOLIGANS
ROBERT FOX TRIO Club Legato (La Casa Sena) 125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232 Jazz!
TRINITY SOUL 319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544
An aspiring actress hits the town in NYC, turning every interaction into a delightful screwball comedy. This performance also includes the short play Necking 8 pm, $25
A jazz brunch featuring a unique Caribbean menu, presented in partnership with the Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival.
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2022 TURQUOISE TRAIL STUDIO TOUR
FRI/16ARTOPENINGS
7:30 pm, $22-$27
Sky Railway 410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759
Proceeds from the show benefit New Mexico Abortion Funds: Indigenous Women Rising, Mariposa Fund and the New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. (See SFR Picks, page 17)
Noon-12 am, $60-$150
El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261
Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574
SKY RAILWAY: STARGAZER Sky Railway 410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759
During the Santa Fe Playhouse’s annual Fiesta Melodrama, the show itself gets put on trial. 6 pm, free
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Rock, reggae, funk and soul. We realize the band is called Trinity Soul and that’s four things, but that’s cool.
St. John’s United Methodist 1200ChurchOld Pecos Trail (505) 982-5397
An American string quartet. 4 pm, $5-$25
La Farge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292
Randall Davey Audubon Center 1800 Upper Canyon Road (505) 983-4609
Learn how to meditate better. 6-7:30 pm, $10 YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Alto Park 1121 Alto St.
WORKSHOP THE ART OF PRACTICEDEVELOPINGMEDITATION:AJOYFUL
Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road (505) 690-4165
Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta
QUANTUM LANGUAGING SALON
MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE
MON/19DANCE
YARDMASTERS
ROBERT WILSON
Patricia Varga helps folks become unstuck in the face of change and challenges. This workshop is free, but you must bring paper and pens. RSVP at pv@patriciavarga.com. 1-2:15 pm, free
Yardmasters assist with the specialized horticultural care in the Railyard Park. This is a year-round, drop-in volunteer program offered for two hours on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Bring your own gloves, dress for the weather, and enjoy the great outdoors.
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10 am-5 pm, free SAND PLAY SUNDAYS!
Transformational therapist
Patricia Varga 1418 Luisa St. (626) 403-7575
Quantum Languaging Practice Salon is a space which is devoted to up-leveling our languaging habits to reprogram our reality. 3:30-4:30 pm, free
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Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence. Trails, Rails, and Highways. 1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12
Colonial living history ranch. 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sun, $4-$6
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Please visit the website above, join and RSVP. Eytan Krasilovsky from the Forest Guild helps us understand the tools that are available to promote healthy forests. Y’all want healthy forests, right?
The festival lineup is focused on heavy riff-rock acts from across multiple sub-genres including stoner rock, heavy psych, doom metal, sludge, drone and retro rock. Frankly, that such a face-melting festival has become a New Mexico thing is kind of shocking, but nonetheless, it’s gonna slay. (See SFR Picks, page 17) Noon-12 am, $60-$150
SANTA FE SWING
Jazz, blues and more. 5:30 pm free
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Music, storytelling and lots of other activities throughout the day.
More than 45 artists along the Turquoise Trail open up their studios for people to come and hang. Hit diotour@gmail.comturquoiusetrailstu-formore.
Rock and soul and more rock on the rock-rock. Crowder’s band is a who’s-who of local champions, including shredder Mikey Baker, even! BAKER!!!!!
FARMERS MARKET TOUR
Figurine, ca. 2000, Sheila Antonio, Navajo, Gift of Yara and Gerald Pitchford, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology
The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place (505) 557-6182
Professor Steven Strogatz gets into the tale of how calculus came to be.
Ever wanted to glimpse behind the curtain of the Farmers Market? See who’s selling what and how and why? Food systems are almost always fascinating, and now you can, but it’s limited to 10 guests per tour, so register early! The way we hear it, there will be coffee, too. 9 am, free
10 am, $10-$15
8:30 pm, free
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Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia. Fashioning Identities. Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12
La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511
SANTA FE RENAISSANCE
10 am-5 pm, free
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ROBERT FOX TRIO
Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103
Jazz, jazz and more jazz. Robert Fox Jazz Trio is always followed by a jazz jam. 6-9 pm, free
BOB MOULD Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
One thing’s for sure around here: People are really into the sunsets. Imagine sunsetting in the comfort of a nice-ass train owned by George “Really Rad” Martin. You like that, huh? 6:05 pm, $99
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RON CROWDER BAND 319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
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Selections from the 20th Century Collection. Western Eyes. Transgressions and Amplifications: Mixed Media Photographs of the ’60s, ’70s. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-12
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Athena LaTocha: Mesabi Redux. Matrilineal: Legacies of Our Mothers. Art of Indigenous Fashion. 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10
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An aspiring actress hits the town in NYC, turning every interaction into a delightful screwball comedy. This performance also includes the short play Necking 2 pm and 8 pm, $25
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Featuring Your Boy Reflex and honoring Cliff Russell, Fiesta Melodrama Actor Emeritus who retires this year after 20-ish years in the annual show. Tickets to the afterparty are sold separately, unless you purchase the $75 premium reserved ticket to the Melodrama itself, which covers admission to the production and after party. (See 3Qs, page 20) 9 pm, $15-$75
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Share happy hour with Santa Fe's own country music legend, Bill Hearne. We’ve met Bill, so believe us when we say he’s a really cool guy. 4-6 pm, free
Old fashioned swing to big band and blues DJs. $8 for the class and for the dance, $3 for just the open dance (which starts at 8 pm). Here’s your chance to be all like, “How do you do, daddio? Check out my wingtips!” 7 pm, $3-$8
MATHEMATICAL STORIES PART 1: THE STORY OF CALCULUS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234
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Which brings us to the service: A+, TVM— A+. Not only was our main server laid back but kind and attentive; he handled a slight issue (I’ll explain in a moment) quickly and courteously and without myself or my dining companion feeling like we were bad people.
Tales of its excellence have been sung from the arroyos of Tesuque to the hallowed halls of SFR’s offices in Midtown and beyond. Our first try was a dud, however, and disappoint ingly so. Somehow this thing had been both under- and over-cooked, making the crust a burnt cracker-like affair and the bottom a doughy mess. Now, there’s no way on Earth every kitchen can cook something perfect ly every single time, and beyond that, I am loathe to send food back in a restaurant af ter years spent working in them myself. One thing I do recall from those days, however, is that servers mostly just want their customers to be happy, and no diner has a right to say nothing and be mad later. Of course, there’s a nice and deferent way to approach it. At TVM, the manager (who was also working the bar and the floor, mind you) addressed our pizza immediately, re-firing it, letting us take it to go and explaining that something had gone awry with the restaurant’s cheese delivery. Satisfied that supply chain issues have made things tough for everyone, we kept the pizza for later and moved on to dessert.
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SFREPORTER.COM • SEPTEMBER 14-20, 2022 FOOD25+ SERVICE; DESSERTS; SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE A SCHLEP FOR IN-TOWNERS TESUQUE VILLAGE MARKET 138 Tesuque Village Road, (505) 988-8848 AFFORDABLE MEDIUM PRICEY EXTRAVAGANT If you’ve made it this far without dumping fries on your New Mexican food, we just feel bad for you. VOREDEALEX
The menu is massive, too, by the way; a packed two pages across breakfast and dinner items ranging from the B.A.B.S (that’s big-ass breakfast sandwich to you, and available on English muffin, bagel or green chile cheese bread; $17) to any number of deli sandwich es ($11-$21 and including things like grilled cheese, a reuben, a few vegetarian options, like the black bean veggie burger and a classic BLT) and entree items.
this large would be presented as a bad thing, the type of unfocused situation that leaves one wondering if the kitchen can do even a few things right, let alone oh-so-many. At Tesuque Village Market, it makes a kind of sense. Sure, the prices can be a little daunting ($15 for a tuna melt is nuts, I’m sorry), but this place is the only game for miles, and it’s gotta have a lot of things for repeat visitors. It does indeed boast the titular market with various and sundry items for the home pantry; it’s got a full bar and a rustic feel both indoors and out. I shudder to use the word “funky” in the way my mother might, so instead we’ll call it delightfully homespun and charming in a woodsy sort of way. Hell, they even accommo dated us with an indoor table when a passing rainstorm sputtered to life.
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Hear me now: TVM’s tres leches cake and key lime pie are among the best desserts I’ve had in my life, location irrelevant. The gra
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The pizza, however, was a different story.
atmosphere at Tesuque Village Market would be worth the trip alone, but as I sat on the patio one recent evening doing the math in my head, it occurred to me I hadn’t been since I was a kid. It’s weird—when you visit or live in any major city, time spent in the car is the norm; when you’ve been in Santa Fe for some time, though, something takes over your brain that makes any drive longer than a few minutes feel harrowing. I sucked it up, though, with a dining companion, and in fewer than 15 min utes from my front door, we were sipping wa ters and perusing the massive menu. I don’t know what I was so worried about.
The following day, I conducted an experi ment with the pizza: Pulling two slices out, I heated one up in the office toaster oven and ate the other cold. In both cases, a marked improvement from the previous night. The sauce’s flavor notes were a symphony from the cold slice, while the heated one’s gener ous mushroom portions came alive with taste and texture. I get it now. I totally get it now.
ham cracker crust of the pie was sticky and chewy, just how you want it, and the tres leches contained so much hidden sweet leche within its body that I’m still thinking of it now. Whoever made the whipped cream for these items deserves a raise.
The plan was simple: We ordered one New Mexican dish (huevos rancheros, over easy, green; $16) and one of the market’s famous pizzas with mushrooms ($19 base, $3 for the topping). The huevos could not have been better, from the kitchen’s understanding of what over easy eggs actually are (gimme that slightly runny yolk, restaurants everywhere!) to the option to have it served with fries. Regular readers will no doubt be familiar with my theory that fries in or on New Mexican food is only ever a good thing, and when I used those crispy little potato spears to pierce my eggs, sop up the yolk and stuff everything into the included flour tortilla to create my own little nighttime breakfast taco...well, let’s just say it was a fantastic combo. Chile-wise, the day we visited, the chile was more about flavor than spice, though it’s always better to get a flavorful batch with little spice than the other way around. I’ll fight you on that.
Village Market bursts with charm and excellent service—plus those desserts
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I’ve been working with [bassist] Jason Narducy and [drummer] John Wurster since 2008, so this is the lon gest I’ve collaborated with other musicians ever. I’m a singular songwriter, but over the course of those 14 years Jason and John have had a lot of influence over the direction of the records merely by being part of the band. I’m writing more toward the strength of the band as a performance unit, but still keeping singular editorial over the lyrics. Do I miss the idea of collaborating 50-50 with somebody? Yeah, there have been times where I’ve thought, ‘Find some peo ple to write songs with. Just get together with people in a room and write some songs,’ and there’s something really attractive about that. I will say, recently in pop music, it looks like it takes a number of people to write a song, and when I hear those songs I don’t hear a singular story telling voice. But people seem to like that kind of storytelling or that kind of song writing right now, or that seems to be what the music industry is favoring at the moment. As a singular storyteller I never really hear a story in those, like I’m not sure who’s telling the story and the artist is the vessel. I don’t know if that really works for me.
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Yeah, it’s very romantic, and it’s definitely for when one is young and durable and righ teous and indestructible. Now that I’m in my 60s? Noooo, I sort of want to know where I’m going. It’s just a reality. I can’t pretend that more years of wild adventure would be would be good for my health [laughs].
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going to have a place to sleep or if you’re going to make gas money, but still just do ing it anyway. Is there anything you miss about those early days of touring and punk rock? The reckless abandon of it? All the things you mentioned, I don’t miss that uncertainty at my age. When I was in my late teens through my late 20s, I was pret ty convinced what I was doing was right. I/ Hüsker Dü were pretty damn resourceful. We had a lot of help and support from people who were in the same situation, and we gave back as much as we were given. So in that climate, it was very easy to get in a van that you hoped was roadworthy with a map that was pretty current, with some landline numbers that were connected to a person you knew was on the other end; but you had to use a payphone. It was a whole different world. The seat of the pants thing, I think, was what made all of it so exciting. Every day was an adventure, every day was, ‘I wonder where the vegan restau rant is, because it’s probably next to the indie
After Hüsker Dü, with Sugar and with your current band, it’s always been, “All songs written by Bob Mould.” Are there aspects of collaborative songwriting you miss? You said you have some good days and bad days—do you miss having somebody to bounce ideas off of?
Light, about similar things from the ’80s—how do you feel the music scene has changed in that regard? Do you still come up against that type of ignorance, or do you feel like you’ve really surrounded yourself with good people?
There’smusic. a tolerance and an understanding and a willingness to learn about things we may not know. I think about trans youth issues. Ten years ago, maybe not so much on people’s radar, but right now it’s very important for all of us to learn why people should be encouraged to identify themselves in the way they want to be identified, for instance. Those are the kinds of things that I think younger people have asked of us. I’m guessing somewhere in the world there’s an alternate universe that is the complete opposite of everything I just said, and I bet those shows are going really well, too, but I don’t know where those shows are.
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I think I’ve surrounded myself with the good people. I think there are different avenues out there, and fortunately there are progressive avenues for more progressive, accepting audi ences and artists. That’s the work of the music business: booking agents, venues, promoters, publications, record labels. Everybody being mindful that we’re not all the same, but we all love
record store or the skate shop,’ and that was the GPS of the ’80s.
Bob Mould: The man. The legend. The punkest.
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SFR: For decades now you’ve been ex tremely prolific. You always seem to have something you’re pushing towards, so what is the core of your passion for creating? What really drives you to keep
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Old days, new days and all points between: A Q&A with the legendary Bob Mould
rock legend, pioneer and founder of Minnesota’s seminal Hüsker Dü, Bob Mould, heads to Santa Fe next week courtesy of AMP Concerts for solo se lections culled from his long career. We caught up with Mould ahead of his show to learn about his thoughts, ethos and storied career. This interview has been edited for space and clarity.
It’s the first and foremost thing that I am good at. Music got to me as a small child, it got me through my childhood, both in the ’60s when I was a small child, and later in the ’70s through high school—and then find ing punk rock. Music is my life. It saved my life. It keeps me alive. It’s the way that I think I best communicate my ideas and my stories to people. When I wake up in the morning it’s music, I’m thinking about music. On the good days, when I’m thinking about music in the morning and in a positive way, I get right to work...but not every morning is a Hoover Dam morning, you know? A lot of mornings are a, ‘What the hell did I just write? Hide that forever!’ kind of morning.
From the beginning with Hüsker Dü, every body was writing, and over time it became myself and Grant Hart being the principal songwriters. There’s a few collaborations in the body of work that might be, ‘How about I write this verse and you write that verse?’ The song ‘Flip Your Wig’ being a perfect example of that. But typically, we wrote independent of each other and then worked things out as we’re making a record. After that, it’s been pretty singular. The big exception to that would be the Blowoff artist album that came out in ’06; that was myself and Rich Morel. Blowoff was a DJ party that Rich and I hosted for 11 years from ’03 through 2014, and that album is a completely 50-50 collaboration. And that’s really the only time I’ve done full collabora tion for an album.
There is a certain romance to piling in a half-broken van and not knowing if you’re
I think we all gravitate to the places that we’re supposed to be, and I think that’s one of the good things the internet has afforded us. Forty years ago, with that hopefully trustworthy van and vegan restaurant next to the indie record store, that was about the best we could do, we didn’t have the instantaneous worldwide free communication and media. We are lucky to be living in this age, but the flip side of it is really frightening, too. Everything has just been made available and amplified. It’s a societal thing more than a music thing, and I’m just grateful that the playing field is more level than it used to be.
resembles her boss but, more importantly and like her, also bears physical scars. Sarah Jo, we learn, had an emergency hysterectomy at 15; she’d already experienced menopause at 17. In delving more into porn, she reasons that her former boss only dumped her because she’s bad at sex, and thus she sets out to experience and learn from every act she can imag ine from A to Z through online dating. What could go wrong,Frosethright?has moments of clarity and vulnerability that border on sublime, but when we never truly learn what stunted her emotional growth beyond the briefest mention of menopause, her naivete feels more horrible than endearing. Of course—and I say this as a cis man who isn’t trying to speak for anyone—women are often thrust into sexual roles in ways for which they weren’t prepared, though it’s sad to watch her go from an ostensibly self-assured human who can easily communicate her needs to a borderline obsessive child at times. Bernthal wonderfully plays the piece of shit role, the guy who, when confronted about his infidelity, becomes a blubbering mess feigning fear rather than accepting accountability.Still,withthe idea that men have long thrust women into untenable positions through various power dynamics underscoring the film, it does make sense: Dudes are great at flexing on women then treating them like they’re nothing. Assuming this is the premise of Sharp Stick, and it’s kind of hard to tell, Dunham perhaps went too subtle to effectively get
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For the fans. ONLY for the fans.
In Longing, Tilda Swinton is Alithea, an intro-
In other words, Kevin Smith has lived—and in liv ing, he’s formed his own rather impressive microcosm of interconnected characters and goings-on, much of which he pulls from for his newest work, Clerks III Once again we join Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randall (Jeff Anderson), employees of the now-in famous Quick Stop convenience store where the first film was set; they now own the joint. We’ll gloss over their tenure as fast food workers in Clerks II for space constraints (and because it was just kind of a bad movie). All seems well in the world of our heroes, right up until Randall has a heart attack at work. He survives and decides the event was like a prompt for his making a movie based on his life. He then enlists his pals to make the film—which, we learn, is the very same film that would become Clerks. Or is? Or always
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verted British narratologist with a penchant for the history of storytelling. During an academic junket to Istanbul, she begins to hallucinate terrifying creatures, but these are only a prelude to the crux of the matter: She buys a bottle in a shop from which appears a djinn (Idris Elba). Fascinated by how she came into possession of such a magical creature, she wonders how he was imprisoned, and so begin a number of tales of love, fate and the machinations of powerful and powerless women and men. Miller, who also co-wrote the script with newcomer Augusta Gore, leans into the pitfalls of the unreliable narrator as well as the tropes found in mythological cautionary tales.
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You’ll find real Turkish history mixed within myths here, though told from perspectives not just belonging to the victors; other than a stilted final act which too subtly asks us too suddenly to consider how love is gained and given, Miller crafts a lovely, magical world where instruments play themselves, families come apart and violence changes people forever.
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her point across. Then again, if women watch the film and glean something men can’t, well, that’s pret ty great in its own right—and men can learn a thing or two as well. (ADV)
Reviewing Clerks III is thus a tricky proposition. Those of us in the know will chuckle and point and remember how we felt in our youths over lines like “I don’t appreciate your ruse,” or “I’m not even sup posed to be here today.” Those who don’t know what those words mean in this context probably won’t without tackling a filmmaker’s entire body of work, and that’s a big ask. Even so, you’ve gotta hand it to the guy for doing whatever the hell he wants, however he wants. People will see Clerks III out of some strange combination of attachment, sure, but also because it makes us feel like we’ve been in on something bigger than ourselves for decades. This one’s for the fans. It’s only for the fans. And that’s OK. Oh, and real quick? Huge shoutout to Trevor Fehrman as Elias. Dude’s a comedy assassin.
In Stick, young heroine Sarah Jo (Norwegian new comer Kristine Froseth) finds herself embroiled in an affair with her married boss, Josh (Jon Bernthal), after reaching her mid-20s and realizing she has zero sexual experience. At home, Sarah Jo’s mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and sister (Taylour Page) dominate time and space with lovelorn tales of rela tionships gone awry, trysts both bad and good and, irritatingly, a glimpse into the mindset of would-be social media influencers. Here, Dunham dips her toe into backstories and almost subversive storytelling through casual references to women flexing their power. Sadly, though, we don’t go deep enough to truly connect with anyone beyond Sarah Jo.
When Kevin Smith’s original Clerks film came out in the year of our lord 1994, it felt like a monumental shift in storytelling, comedy, world-building—and the accessibility of filmmaking itself. Famously, Smith maxed out a bunch of credit cards to produce the mov ie and his gamble paid off; homeboy’s been making movies ever since, some of them great (like Mallrats), plus he’s dabbled in comic book writing, became a big wig in the podcast-o-sphere and even did a run with the iconic Canadian television program Degrassi: The Next Generation (we’re still kind of bummed he came between Caitlin Ryan and Joey Jeremiah, but old wounds heal hard).
It’s been a sec since Girls creator—and once endlessly lauded writer/director—Lena Dunham had something for us, and her new film Sharp Stick straddles the territory between alarmingly cynical and charmingly real.
Swinton presents an oddly adorable character who slowly learns to embrace her emotions. Elba, meanwhile, finds a magnetic and sympathetic intersection as the djinn, a being who seems perfectly comfortable addressing and unpacking his flaws. The moral, then, is somewhat open-ended, but it’s fun to consider one’s own take for days after seeing the film. And what a time it is. (ADV)
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All things considered, Aussie Mad Max director George Miller has been a fairly minimalist creative type. He’s the sort of filmmaker who lives in the visuals of his work, and that’s how he’s churned out some of the most memorable action films of the last 40-plus years. In Three Thousand Years of Longing, based on the the short story The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by AS Byatt, however, Miller delves deep into myths and fables, marrying them with a bit of magical realism and an enduring love letter to the history of storytelling to boot.Itsresults are a canny and wildly enjoyable throwback tale that recalls the likes of Princess Bride and 2006’s The Fall, but which treads stylistic heights and grounded realities among its more fantastical elements. Simply put, it’s one of the more fun movies to come out in ages, and it is most definitely made for the big screen.
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from a nearly 30-year-old film to reprise their roles speaks to his fortitude and, probably, his kindness.
Those who know these films and shows and Smith’s long-running gags will find plenty to enjoy, not least of which are satisfying Easter eggs and nods to jokes that have been around so long it’s almost absurd. To his credit, the fabled director has no issues with poking fun at his own shortcomings as a cub filmmaker (some of which are hilarious and point out the ways in which we learn to be better at our respective crafts). Those who wish to enter the Smith fold at this point without almost encyclopedic prior knowledge will likely find themaselves lost at best and confused at worst. Still, that Smith managed to bring back so many players
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She is somehow all at once the most and least interesting character in the film, but things take a turn when her boss’s wife (Dunham) discovers the affair—one in a long line—and Sarah Jo is thrust out of both a job and her first experiences of pseu do-romance. Reeling, she retreats into the world of pornography, discovering a performer who kind of
was? It’s a sequel. Or a prequel. Neither? Honestly, it’s a little bit meta and a whole lot of love letter to Smith’s own career. You’ll find nonstop callbacks and in-jokes for fans of Dogma and Clerks: The Animated Series; you’ll find cameos from Ben Affleck and Ethan Suplee and Fred Armisen and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Sadly, though, there is no Jason Lee (Mallrats’ Brodie Bruce, easily one of Smiths greatest creations and, honestly, a landmark performance from Lee), but there is some Rosario Dawson for some reason, and you’ll find plenty of the enduring “heroes” them selves, Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Smith). Those dudes sure love weed.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s impossible to be perfect. It’s neither healthy nor productive to obsess on perfectionism. You know these things. You understand you can’t afford to get bogged down in overthinking and overreaching and overpolishing. And when you are at your best, you sublimate such manic urges. You transform them into the elegant intention to clarify and refine and refresh. With grace and care, you express useful beauty instead of aiming for hyper-immaculate precision. I believe that in the coming weeks, dear Virgo, you will be a master of these services—skilled at performing them for yourself and others.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Richard Ford has advice for writers: “Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that.” I will amend his counsel to apply to all of you non-writers, as well. By my reckoning, the coming weeks will be prime time to be gleefully honest as you identify what causes commotions in your heart. Why should you do that? Because it will lead you to the good decisions you need to make in the coming months. As you attend to this holy homework, I suggest you direct the following invitation to the universe: “Beguile me, mystify me, delight me, fascinate me, and rouse me to feel deep, delicious feelings.”
“Some people fill the gaps, and others emphasize my loneliness,” she concluded. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Pisces, it’s your task right now to identify which people intensify your loneliness and which really do fill the gaps. And then devote yourself with extra care to cultivating your connections with the gap-fillers. Loneliness is sometimes a good thing—a state that helps you renew and deepen your communion with your deep self. But I don’t belief that’s your assignment these days. Instead, you’ll be wise to experience intimacy that enriches your sense of feeling at home in the world. You’ll thrive by consorting with allies who sweeten your love of life.
you’re on the verge of being able to start planning your launch date or grand opening. Now all you have to do is create a big crisp emptiness where the next phase will have plenty of room to germinate. The best way to do that is to finish the old process as completely as possible.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Tips to get the most out of the next six weeks: 1. Be the cautiously optimistic voice of reason. Be the methodical motivator who prods and inspires. Organize as you uplift. Encourage others as you build efficiency. 2. Don’t take other people’s apparent stupidity or rudeness as personal affronts. Try to understand how the suffering they have endured may have led to their behavior. 3. Be your own father. Guide yourself as a wise and benevolent male elder would. 4. Seek new ways to experience euphoria and enchantment, with an emphasis on what pleasures will also make you healthier.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): My reader Monica Ballard has this advice for you Aries folks: “If you don’t vividly ask for and eagerly welcome the gifts the Universe has in store for you, you may have to settle for trinkets and baubles. So never settle.” That’s always useful counsel for you Rams. And in the coming weeks, you will be wise to heed it with extra intensity. Here’s a good metaphor to spur you on: Don’t fill up on junk snacks or glitzy hors d’oeuvres. Instead, hold out for gourmet feasts featuring healthy, delectable entrées.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your mind is sometimes a lush and beautiful maze that you get lost in. Is that a problem? Now and then it is, yes. But just as often, it’s an entertaining blessing. As you wander around amidst the lavish finery, not quite sure of where you are or where you’re going, you often make discoveries that rouse your half-dormant potentials. You luckily stumble into unforeseen insights you didn’t realize you needed to know. I believe the description I just articulated fits your current ramble through the amazing maze. My advice: Don’t be in a mad rush to escape. Allow this dizzying but dazzling expedition to offer you all its rich teachings.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I am lonely, yet not everybody will do,” observed Piscean author Anaïs Nin.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked,” said Sagittarian author Elizabeth Berg. I suspect her theory will be true for you in the coming weeks. You have done an adroit job of formulating your intentions and collecting the information you need to carry out your intentions. What may be best now is to relax your focus as you make room for life to respond to your diligent preparations. “I’m a great believer in luck,” said my Uncle Ned. “I’ve found that the harder I work, the more luck I have.” He was correct, but it’s also true that luck sometimes surges your way when you’ve taken a break from your hard work.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Poetry is a life-cherishing force,” said Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, who published 33 volumes of poetry and read hundreds of other poets. Her statement isn’t true for everyone, of course. To reach the point where reading poetry provides our souls with nourishment, we may have to work hard to learn how to appreciate it. Some of us don’t have the leisure or temperament to do so. In any case, Cancerian, what are your life-cherishing forces? What influences inspire you to know and feel all that’s most precious about your time on earth? Now would be an excellent time to ruminate on those treasures—and take steps to nurture them with tender ingenuity.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Now and then, you slip into phases when you’re poised on the brink of either self-damage or self-discovery. You wobble and lurch on the borderline where self-undoing vies with self-creation. Whenever this situation arises, here are key questions to ask yourself: Is there a strategy you can implement to ensure that you glide into self-discovery and self-creation? Is there a homing thought that will lure you away from the perverse temptations of self-damage and self-undoing? The answers to these queries are always yes—if you regard love as your top priority and if you serve the cause of love over every other consideration.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to Libran poet T. S. Eliot, “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” Those are your guiding thoughts for the coming days, Libra. You’re almost ready to start fresh;
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Please promise me you will respect and revere your glorious star power in the coming weeks. I feel it’s important, both to you and those whose lives you touch, that you exalt and exult in your access to your magnificence. For everyone’s benefit, you should play freely with the art of being majestic and regal and sovereign. To do this right, you must refrain from indulging in trivial wishes, passing fancies, and minor attractions. You must give yourself to what’s stellar. You must serve your holiest longings, your riveting dreams, and your thrilling hopes.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I will remind you about a potential superpower that is your birthright to develop: You can help people to act in service to the deepest truths and strongest love. You can even teach them how to do it. Have you been ripening this talent in 2022? Have you been bringing it more to the forefront of your relationships? I hope so. The coming months will stir you to go further than ever before in expressing this gift. For best results, take a vow to nurture the deepest truths and strongest love in all your thoughts and dealings with others.
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TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Erlan O. Marquez Bojorquez will apply to the Honorable Maria SanchezGagne, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 11:30 a.m. on the 12th day of October, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Erlan Omar Marquez Bojorquez to Erlan Omar Mendoza Bojorquez.
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