Santa Fe Reporter, September 20, 2023

I ALWAYS HAVE A NEXT

Artist Dennis Larkins reflects on decades past with plenty of work left to come BY ALEX DE VORE, P.10

OPINION 5

NEWS

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

POP QUIZ 8

District 4 City Council candidates answer SFR’s quiz questions

INTO THE TEEN SCENE 9

Santa Fe youth have a new safe facility to gather and grow

COVER STORY 10

“I ALWAYS HAVE A NEXT”

Artist Dennis Larkins reflects on decades past with plenty left to come

CULTURE

SFR PICKS 15

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New museum, old movies, new methods and old stories with new methods

THE CALENDAR 16

3 QUESTIONS 24

With New Mexico Museum of Art’s Curator of Contemporary Art Alexandra Terry

MUSIC 26

DEAR JOHN

John Francis and the Poor Clares get it together

A&C 27

THE BOOKSHELF

Alexandra Diaz’s Farewell Cuba, Mi Isla MOVIES 28

A HAUNTING IN VENICE REVIEW

Poirot’s back and getting into all kinds of horror stuff with Tina freaking Fey

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COVER, SEPT. 13: “ATTACKED AT SCHOOL”

NECESSARY NEWS

What a good and necessary report on “Hannah’s” sexual assault case at Santa Fe High. Because of the family’s lawsuit, your reporting, and Hannah’s courage, Santa Fe Public Schools are going to have to make changes to better protect their students. Moving forward, I hope you’ll keep us abreast of the lawsuit and any changes made by SFPS. Meanwhile, I worry about the “adult” version of Hannah’s attacker.

BROOKS WHITE

SANTA FE

A&C, SEPT. 13: “PAGEMASTERS”

CIELO COURT #FTW

Congratulations and I hope to see you open and thriving for many years to come. What a

great location for those of us who sew and love books, all in one place.

MELODY BUTLER GRIEGO

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IN VERSE

Whoa, boys, take me back. I wanna read a Geronimo’s paperback.

DAVID GOMEZ

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MOVIES, SEPT. 13:

“MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 3”

MORE OR LESS

Well I was going to watch it—may or may not. But surely the movie isn’t as offensive as your review.

DEBORA GHOREYEB

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SANTA FE EAVESDROPPER

“No one ever wishes it was Easter.”

—Couple in conversation while riding bicycles on Arroyo de Los Chamisos Urban Trail

Send your Overheard in Santa Fe tidbits to: eavesdropper@sfreporter.com

“Can you believe how quickly summer went by?”

“Oh my God, I thought it was endless. I can’t wait for it to be over and for it to be Christmas.”

“But when it’s Christmas, you’re going to wish it was Easter.”

MEOW WOLF TO FLY AT INTERNATIONAL BALLOON FIESTA

So much hot air.

STILL NO CHARGES FOR TOPPLED KIT CARSON OBELISK

Don’t worry. Don’t the feds always have everything under control?

RICO! RICO RICO...

GIULIANI SUED FOR UNPAID LEGAL FEES

It’s wild to think the whole world respected this weirdo after 9/11.

VLADEM CONTEMPORARY TO OPEN THIS WEEKEND

It’s been a long road, but Guadalupe Street finally has a place locals can visit once then forget about forever.

NEW MEXICO TELLS US ENERGY DEPARTMENT TO DIG UP LOS ALAMOS WASTE PITS RATHER THAN CAP THEM

Another chapter in the nuclear monster timeline, for which we’re gonna coin the term “Guadzilla” right now.

TV TALKSHOWS WALK BACK PLANS TO RE-START DURING WGA/SAG STRIKE

Bill Maher to continue existing, though—can’t win ‘em all

ALBQUERQUE JOURNAL ASSIGNS FORMER COPS REPORTER “GOOD NEWS” BEAT

If that’s not excellent spin doctoring, we don’t know what is.

LEAFY GREENS

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WE ARE WAY MORE THAN WEDNESDAY HERE ARE A COUPLE OF ONLINE EXCLUSIVES:

SEE YA, CITY CLERK

Kristine Bustos-Mihelcic resigns from her job as city clerk.

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It’s that time again! This election season, SFR reprises the tradition of pop quizzes administered to City Council candidates in the Nov. 7 election about the communities they hope to represent. For the next several weeks, each issue will feature a different race. In District 4, which covers the central city, some areas west of Cerrillos Road and the area along Richards Avenue south of Rodeo and north of I-25, two candidates are facing off.

Incumbent Councilor Jamie Cassutt seeks to keep her seat for a second term against a challenge from political newcomer Joel Nava. Per usual, the candidates agreed to not use any sources besides their own knowledge to answer the questions asked. We record the conversations and report the answers verbatim. Early voting at the Santa Fe County Clerk’s Office starts Oct. 10. (Evan Chandler)

SCORE: 3 / 5

After winning a three-way race to become the District

4 councilor in 2019, Jamie Cassutt wants to hold on to the seat for another term. She serves on the city’s Finance Committee and its Quality of Life Committee. She has a master’s degree in public health.

1. For both a member and a non-member? Hmm. I’m thinking in my head—for some reason, the numbers $10 and $12 are popping in my head. Not sure if it’s for those fees, but those are the ones that are coming to me.

ability, and we are really wanting to make sure that this is a community development where all members of the community can really take advantage of it. We are looking at things like affordable housing, youth programming, arts and culture, the Fogelson Library being rehabilitated, economic development, open space and opportunities for small businesses. It’s really, really quite a robust plan given that it’s 54-plus acres.

3. I’m thinking. I could guess between two answers, and I’m not sure which one to go with. Let’s say car theft.

1. How much are the fees to rent a racquetball court at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center for both a member and a non-member?

2. What are the goals of the city’s plan to redevelop the Midtown Campus?

3. Name the most prevalent crime identified by city police in July.

4. How much is the approximate median home price in your district and how has it changed since last year?

5. What is the current status of the Richards Avenue extension project?

2. That’s about a two-hour conversation, but one of the most important documents for really understanding those goals would be the Community Development Plan, which talks about what are the different things that we want to be seeing built there or developed there, as well as what are the different values that are driving the decisions that will be made. We are looking for equity, we are looking for sustainability, we are looking for afford-

4. In the city of Santa Fe District 4—let’s go with about $450,000. It hasn’t changed that much. I know things have leveled out a bit, so maybe $430,000. My district changed too, so that makes it a little bit complicated.

5. We are currently in the design phase, and the Public Works Department and our contractors will be coming forward with the design. So that is where we are with Richards.

1. The GCCC racquetball courts are free for members, $2 per hour for non-members.

2. The city adopted a community development plan for its Midtown Campus, which includes new parks and green spaces; housing developments and reuse of existing buildings. The city recently granted approval to PE Real Estate Holdings to construct Aspect Studios in the former Greer Garson Studios building. The Midtown Arts Alliance has an exclusive negotiating agreement to create visual arts center. Preliminary plans also include the rehabilitation of Fogelson Library, a new plaza and future RFPs for affordable housing developments.

3. In July, city police reported 241 cases of larceny or theft. Motor vehicle theft is a separate category in police data; city police reported 50 cases in July. The second most prevalent crime of the month was assault: 152 reports. The crime stats were presented to the Public Safety Committee in August.

4. As reported by the Santa Fe Association of Realtors, the median home price for the second quarter for the “Southwest City” region in Q2 of 2023 was $450,000, slightly less than in the 2022, when it was $453,000. For the city as a whole, the median in Q2 of 2023 was $604,500, compared to $595,000 in Q2 of 2022.

5. The city voted in August to buy state land that would make the road extension possible across the Arroyo de los Chamisos. Designs are underway for the extension that would require 2 to 5 acres of the land, and the city could use the balance for open space, a senior center, a child care center or recreation.

SCORE: 1 / 5

Joel Nava works for a private security firm at the state Capitol and is a girls basketball coach. The Republican Party of Santa Fe County promoted Nava’s campaign multiple times on social media in the nonpartisan race.

1. So I’ve never done racquetball, so I don’t know.

2. Again, I haven’t looked

into that yet, so I’m not too sure.

3. Property crime, I believe.

4. We were just going over this. I was just looking at this. Oh my goodness. I think the median house was I’m going to say $250,000, and it’s gone up quite a bit since 2012.

5. So I know they just started it, and I’m not sure when it will be finished. But it just started.

JOEL NAVA

JAMIE CASSUTT

Into the Teen Scene

existed in other areas of the city.

BY EVAN CHANDLER evan@sfreporter.com

Santa Fe youth will soon have a new place to gather on the Southside as the city plans to open its long-awaited Teen Center this weekend.

With the building’s capacity of around 330, teenagers will have the option to use the quiet study room or get help with schoolwork; shoot hoops on either indoor or outdoor courts; create arts and crafts or play video games. But that’s just the beginning of the Teen Center’s potential, city Community Services Director Maria Sanchez-Tucker says.

“This is really going to serve the need to give teens resources to help build them up and provide leadership for the future as they grow into their adulthood and set them up for success,” she tells SFR.

The center, located in Tierra Contenta near the Southside Library, offers access to a computer room where the center hopes to offer classes on coding; an audio room where teens can record podcasts; and a fitness room full of workout equipment, plus a kitchen and on-site laundry machines—all amenities local teens asked for during the development process.

The $11.8-million project has been in the works for more than a decade. Former Mayor Javier Gonzales hosted youth summits in 2015 and 2017 to help plan the center. According to Youth and Family Services Division Director Julie Sanchez, the city, alongside a Colorado-based training group for the Mayor’s Youth Advisory Board, sent out a survey before the 2015 summit to public schools, private schools, charter schools and specialty schools asking youth what they wanted to see.

Nolan Hall, a member of the Mayor’s Youth Advisory Board, tells SFR the youth input provided critical details for the center, the planning of which was “very selective,” down to the placement of the furniture in the building. Hall, who is Navajo and Cherokee as well as the only board member who attended Santa Fe Indian School, first joined to be a voice at the table for Indigenous youth. During the last four years serving on the board, he says a teen center has been one of the biggest priorities.

“We wanted to create a space where teenagers and people could find an outlet and find somewhere they could be safe instead of resorting to unhealthy habits or putting themselves in situations that maybe they shouldn’t be,” he says.

Hall says the center dedicates much-needed resources to the Southside that have long

“There’s so many issues we are passionate about on the board, and I think now seeing this come to fruition is amazing,” Hall says. “We are finally getting to see what can happen when you’re able to help your community and see that change made, which is really exciting.”

While the city has a history of trying to build a Southside teen center dating back as far as the early 2000s, contractors did

Sanchez tells SFR. “There was just all kinds of stuff delaying those first couple years of building it.”

The city put up about $5 million for the construction while the state covered the remaining cost. Staff salaries will be come from the city’s general fund. Teen Center Manager Ziarra Kirksey says the center plans to offer all of its services free of charge to teens through the help of several community partners including the Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Fe, Earth Care and local schools.

“We want to make sure that we are working together so that we are reaching as many teens as possible,” Kirksey says. “It takes a village, and Santa Fe is a village.”

Following Friday’s ribbon-cutting, the center’s initial hours are from 4 to 8 pm Tuesday through Friday and noon to 6 pm Saturday.

“We really want it to be an invitation to the community to come see this beautiful space and celebrate with us and just have it be an event where they can see what resources are available to the teens,” SanchezTucker says.

not break ground on one until September 2021. The building then faced several delays on opening, with an initial ribbon-cutting day planned for November 2022, which later moved to May 2023 before finally landing on this month. Sanchez says a recession, a pandemic and administrative turnover contributed to the project’s slower timeline.

“When the pandemic hit, our initial estimates almost more than doubled, plus getting those contracts and getting materials was completely backlogged,”

TEEN CENTER GRAND OPENING

2:15 pm, Friday Sept. 22, ribbon cutting followed by entertainment and a showing of Pitch Perfect at 5:30, with free pizza and blankets for the first 200 teens.

1 to 5 pm, Saturday, Sept. 23, live DJ, Wise Fool New Mexico entertainment and workshops and the Georgia O’Keefe Art Van, plus an illustration workshop and free Fusion Tacos for the first 200 teens.

6600 Valentine Way santafenm.gov/community-services/ recreation/teen-center

New teen center set to provide opportunities for education, recreation and more

We wanted to create a space where teenagers and people could find an outlet and find somewhere they could be safe instead of resorting to unhealthy habits

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-Nolan Hall, Mayor’s Youth Advisory Board

LEFT: The entrance into the Teen Center has security measures, a check-in desk and lots of seating. CENTER: Guests can use the indoor court to play basketball, volleyball and more. RIGHT: The outdoor court and green space has seating and another place to shoot hoops.

EVAN CHANDLER

I Always Have a Next I Always Have a Next

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

In a small room repurposed as a makeshift studio within a house off Pacheco Street, artist Dennis Larkins stands surrounded by his in-progress works, completed pieces and an impressive toy collection. This room is Larkins in a nutshell—a whimsical world where Gumby and the Pillsbury Doughgirl (yes, she exists) stand at attention amidst illustrations and 3D relief paintings replete with the unhinged and familiar-but-not-quite-familiar ephemera of nuclear Americana, sci-fi, Mad Magazine homage, throwback absurdities and cinema paeans.

This room represents decades of experiences, close calls, triumphs, disappointments and a little bit of luck—a laundry list of surprisingly different lives and jobs: a cowboy; Head Start educator; gallerist; Disney Imagineer; scenic designer for the legendary promoter Bill Graham and others.

As Larkins steadily built his career, he emerged as a pivotal part of a lowbrow art movement later popularized by 1980s LA artist Kenny Scharf and others as a humorous sendup of how arts consumers define what is fine or not. Larkins has been a trailblazer in pop surrealism and the lowbrow, an adaptable and nomadic creator and pop culture contributor. He’s still showing, too, both regularly at KEEP Contemporary in Santa Fe and at various events and spaces across the country, like an upcoming San Francisco show later this month.

Now, at age 80, Larkins, who has been in Santa Fe on and off over the years, says he’s happy he made the choice to return permanently to the city to live and work.

This is home.

“What you have to understand about Larkins is that he’s a pioneer,” says KEEP’s Jared Antonio-Justo Trujillo. “People like him or Juxtapoz’s Robert Williams, these guys paved the way for people like me—in my opinion, Larkins is one of the greatest artists of his generation, and not only here, but the world.”

Whether you know him or not, Larkins’ work has absolutely seeped into a broader context of film and popular culture. With a touch of Americana embedded with deeper statements on politics, environmentalism and the absurd notion that the world was once a better place, Larkin lampoons American romanticism while simultaneously confessing to the culture’s magnetism.

“It was the type of experience when you’re excited not just by a piece of art, but by a collection,” longtime Larkins collector Jamie Understein tells SFR of the first time he saw Larkins’ creations on Canyon Road. “A lot of his work has this ’50s feel to it with cars and [old] computers and clothing; like, it’s of that time period, but at the same time, it can go well beyond. It can have a futuristic feel.”

Think old Coca-Cola ads and sci-fi movie robots with arms flailing; think King Kong and Them! ants; think aliens and skeletons living the dream of the nuclear family. That Larkins developed the style feels fun; that he went into art in the first place feels borderline miraculous.

“My father was a hellfire and brimstone preacher,” he tells SFR during a recent studio visit. “What every kid knows is how they’re raised, and I think that’s a universal truism that your reality is the reality that’s presented to you. Personally, as a sentient being, I had issues, and they were issues in contrast to everything I knew about who I was.”

There comes, he says, a time of awakening,

Artist Dennis Larkins reflects on decades past with plenty of work left to come

Artist Dennis Larkins in his home studio.

ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

“when you notice there’s a bigger world outside of whatever this created environment all parent-child relationships are built upon— the notion is, you get old enough and aware enough to look around you and maybe see the differences between what people say and what people do.”

For Larkins, that awakening came in grade school, after his family had moved from Abilene, Kansas, to the tiny town of Lamar, Colorado.

“We’re talking about late 1940s, early ‘50s Americana, when…conformity would be the order of the day,” he says. “But I started drawing when I was about 5, at least that I’m aware of in my conscious memory.”

His family life was still religious and strict—like, no dancing or music strict—but Larkins says he and his older brother expressed early creativity through models and diorama for their HO-scale toy rail hobby. Additionally, his mother understood Larkins’ propensity for illustration and introduced him to comic books.

“Highly selected, of course,” Larkins interjects, “like Disney. So I guess Uncle Walt would have been my first influence.”

Later, however, came EC Comics’ horror and sci-fi titles, once Larkins was old enough to choose his own reading material.

“I was aware of comics because, in the downtown of my small town, they had the magazine stand,” he recalls. “Of course, I wasn’t allowed [to read that stuff], which made it

more attractive. Then, in 1955, I suppose, I saw my first issue of Mad Magazine, and whatever it took, I dredged up the money to buy that and brought it home secretly.”

It might seem tame now, but Mad was downright radical when it premiered in 1951. For a fledgling artist who’d come up puritanical, it was life-changing. Still, Larkins says, he and his brother kept up with the hobby rail world.

“It was such a pivotal creative vehicle, not only for expanding abilities, but for thinking about the world and the history that led to who we are and where we came from,” he says. “Also, as I got older and would share what we were doing in our little basement studio with friends, I was particularly interested in sharing with female prospects. It was a great chick magnet, you might say. I got to show off my skill sets.”

Models and diorama also gave Larkins his first tastes of positive reinforcement for things he’d created—and the desire for that feeling doesn’t really go away, he notes. Thus, when he began attending the Otero Junior College in La Junta, Colorado, in

1959, he took latent artistic ambitions with him, despite his attendance being predicated upon playing football.

“It was my first foray into the extended world and they had a lot of students from other places,” he says. “It was mind-expanding.”

He wouldn’t last in the football department, but when he made his way to the school’s art classrooms, something stirred. Larkins joined the theater and visual arts departments. In retrospect, he says, Otero’s available arts classes were minimal, but they led him to educator JF “Buck” Burshears, who worked for the school’s Koshare Kiva— today known as the Koshare Indian Museum.

“He always had a cigar in his mouth, but I don’t remember him ever lighting it,” Larkins recalls of Burshears. “He always chewed on it, which was disgusting, and he was this gruff sort of guy. And he loved New Mexico art.”

Burshears was the leader of a Native dance troupe that regularly toured into New Mexico, and Larkins traveled with him from Colorado to Taos. Larkins says that’s when he learned about seminal New Mexico

movements such as the Taos Founders and Santa Fe’s Cinco Pintores, and calls the period his “first love affair with Northern New Mexico’s culture.”

During junior college, Larkins sojourned to Taos during the summers with a few bucks in his pocket from temporary farming jobs he’d take during the year, then stayed in New Mexico soaking up the arts until the money ran out before he limped back to Colorado penniless, but all the richer.

By 1963, Larkins had wrapped up his schooling at Otero and transferred to the Kansas City Art Institute on scholarship. The following years were a whirlwind that found the artist both grappling with a changing America— the ubiquity of rock music, the assassination of JFK, the ongoing Civil Rights Movement and so on—and learning myriad artistic techniques. Painting remained his main interest, however, and he was recommended by an art institute professor for a summer contest from Yale University—his brother’s alma mater—that gave students from across the country a chance to attend the institution’s prestigious summer program. Larkins won and headed east in 1965, which he calls “the single biggest thing that had happened to my creative mind.”

Sequestered in a Yale-owned manor in Connecticut, he and a gaggle of roughly 40 other artists con-

A number of examples illustrate how Larkins pieces together his paintings as three-dimensional reliefs on panels. Clockwise from top left: “Changing The Channel,” “Read Between The Lines and “Highway To Hell.”

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vened to spend their days painting and being critiqued by fine arts educators.

“We had the best instructors ever, and they were inviting people who were already, within the context of being young artists, trying to establish themselves,” says Larkins. “I wasn’t even interested in that—I was interested in expanding my learning of what was possible.”

At 20 years old, this was also when Larkins first experienced the New York arts scene and when he first started to develop a sense of self as an artist, including a penchant for landscapes with strange and offbeat compositions that make use of bold, swooping colors. Larkins says he was offered a grad school spot at Yale but couldn’t swing it financially; then, San Francisco Art Institute rejected him because the school wouldn’t take mid-term students. In the end, he landed at the MFA program at University of Colorado in Boulder in 1966.

That lasted roughly a year. New Mexico, meanwhile, kept calling his name. Though Taos had been a favorite destination when he was younger, Santa Fe felt more alive by that point. He and his first wife arrived in town in a beat-up ’50s pickup with practically all of his art school output and her horse in tow in 1967. Broke and young, they lived for a time in a dilapidated adobe out in Chupadero—one that didn’t even have floors, which required Larkins to lay his art school canvases across the packed dirt like emergency linoleum. And he painted.

“I was familiar with painting in Northern New Mexico in places like Santa Fe and, of course, Taos,” he says. “I was familiar with people like O’Keeffe and Mabel Dodge Luhan and John Sloan and all the radical literati and painters of the 1930s who, at the time, would come out to New Mexico. My thinking was, coupled with the same notion of wanting to do something my contemporaries weren’t doing, all these cool people did cool stuff, and a lot of it, but that doesn’t mean everything that could be done had been done.”

His first solo show of landscapes and figurative pieces that year took place at a space on

Canyon Road called The Painter’s Gallery. He also met his first-ever patron, Allan Swartzberg, who would collect nearly 40 pieces over the years that followed.

“Any amount of money is success to a young artist,” Larkins says with a laugh.

The early 1970s brought regular gallery showings and sales enough to buy a little place out in Embudo near the river. He participated in juried shows with local artists at the New Mexico Museum of Art and even managed to open his own Canyon Road space, Larkins Gallery.

“It was a dynamic time,” he says. “A lot of artists who became well-known got their start at the time. Larkins Gallery didn’t last long, but for a season, it was a hopping little place.”

There he showed works by the likes of legendary Santa Fean Tommy Macaione—with whom he’d dabble in plein air painting from time to time—as well as Dennis Culver and Jim and Holly Wood.

“I wanted to get Fritz Scholder to show with me, but he had other commitments,” Larkins says. “But he sent one of his students over to show—TC Cannon. He was doing some really cool stuff, kind of early pop surrealism.”

Yet, making a go in Santa Fe proved rough. Larkins divorced and got remarried by 1972, then left for Berkley to visit his second wife’s family in 1973.

“The idea became to regroup, get a little job, make a little money and then come back and get into painting again, but life has a way of intervening,” Larkins says.

The couple (Larkins’ wife asked that her first name be withheld) stayed in the Bay area for years to come because, as it turns out, 1973 was a banner year for Larkins. Previously, his brother had worked a union scenic design job for the San Francisco Opera, and Larkins cold-called the shop to try to get hired himself. It wasn’t a union or even high-paying gig, but Larkins took a position tidying the shop, answering the phones and other general scutwork.

Meanwhile, his wife’s brother was working for iconic rock promoter Bill Graham and had

“Cross Purposes” delves into that weird 1950s space aesthetic.

overheard a conversation about needing a backdrop for an upcoming show featuring the band War. Larkins’ brother-in-law chimed in, saying that he knew just the artist to get the job done.

“When the phone rang, I said, ‘No problem,” Larkins recounts. “I’d never done anything like that, but it was basically taking an album cover and blowing it up to 20, 25 feet. I went out and bought the album, and it was fortunately simple, then I hired the shop goods person [from the San Francisco Opera] to sew up the backdrop, one of the journeyman scenic artists to help, my boss…it was my very first backdrop, and we had to whip it out over the weekend.”

The following Monday, Bill Graham’s people showed up to pick up the backdrop.

“I don’t think I’d even asked about money,” Larkins says with a laugh. “But they handed me this envelope of cash, and it was $2,000 inside. From that second on, I became Bill’s go-to background guy.”

In many cases, backgrounds were recreations of album covers, but as time went by, Larkins’ designs grew to be more and more sophisticated—looming dinosaurs towering over crowds or Mount Rushmore, recreated in all its weirdness, hugging the edges of the stage. Larkins’ designs for Graham’s storied Day on the Green festivals in Oakland remain some of the most iconic in rock history—including a legendary Stonehenge set for a 1977 Led Zeppelin performance that was lampooned in Christopher Guest’s 1984 comedy classic This is Spinal Tap

“I saw that movie at the Jean Cocteau when it was just a regular movie theater,” Larkins says, “and I was practically on the floor because it felt so personal.”

After that, he says, he called the Spinal Tap production company to let them know he’d seen the film and to offer his services. The receptionist to whom he spoke swore up and down the tiny Stonehenge bit was not a reference, but the writing was on the wall. In the years that followed, Larkins went on to work with plenty of other big names, including The Rolling Stones and Jimmy Buffett; he even created the cover art for The Grateful Dead’s 1981 record, Dead Set, as well as sought-after posters for events still uttered in conversations about rock history.

Still, Santa Fe and a serious painting career called to him. By the mid-’80s, he owned a house on Baca Street and was producing landscapes again using methodologies he’d developed while working in stagecraft, many of which—such as layered dimensions and painted reliefs—still find their way into his work today.

Even so, opportunities in Los Angeles pulled Larkins back to California in 1987, where he worked with special effects company Spectra F/X alongside people from

I Always Have a Next

his rock show days. This stint included film and television work for movies such as Tim Burton’s Batman 2 and shows like Grizzly Adams. Based on that, he even obtained a coveted job with Disney’s Imagineering department at Walt Disney World in Florida, where he designed stage shows both for thennew adult-focused nightclubs at the park’s Pleasure Island locale (which is still there) and for themed stage events within the park’s more family-oriented areas.

Next came positions for then-in vogue theme shops, like the Warner Bros. Studio Store. In the end, one last contracted job for Disney that never actually came to pass allowed Larkins and his wife the financial runway to make it back to their beloved Santa Fe. They’ve been here full-time since 2007.

“We didn’t need to be in LA anymore, and it was also the beginning of this digital age where you didn’t need to be anywhere for that work anymore,” he says.

He started showing in local galleries, like the now-defunct Skeleton Gallery, as well as Pop—and selling quite well. He also hit upon the style for which most might know him today. With a healthy dose of romanticized Americana as seen through the lens of darker imagery, such as war, nuclear weaponry or even the medical industry, Larkins uses familiar imagery to cloak more subversive political content.

“I refer to it as a commonly shared visual vernacular,” Larkins told SFR in an interview last July, “meaning that images from popular culture and our shared past are sort of combined together to create that visual vernacular we share, where it’s possible to communicate through the use of images pulled from their original context but with embedded meaning.”

Today, Larkins shows exclusively in Santa Fe at KEEP Contemporary, a space known primarily for lowbrow art, pop surrealism and similar works.

He’s got a show coming up at San Francisco’s Haight Street Art Center later this month, plans for future Santa Fe shows and upcoming poster and album art for bands such as Moonalice.

Collectors are still after his work.

“We own nine pieces—not a disgusting number,” says Understein with a chuckle. “They’re all close to our hearts.”

Understein’s wife Jonna adds, “Knowing Dennis and getting to know what a great person he is really makes them special to us. We still stop and look at them and give them time.”

Larkins, meanwhile, has no plans to stop. The rock ‘n’ roll days still course through his veins alongside memories of art school, Mad Magazine and old railroad models.

“I always have a next,” he tells SFR resolutely. “I’m an old rocker. I still love this.”

TOP: Larkins shows off “Rio Chiquito” in 1968, one of his forays into landscapes.

MIDDLE: Larkins surveys the layout of a Day On The Green show at Oakland Stadium with legendary rock promoter Bill Graham, circa 1977.

BOTTOM: The artist in his studio working on “An Overriding Misunderstanding,” circa 2005.

COURTESY

COURTESY THE ARTIST

RICHARD MCCAFFREY

They handed me this envelope of cash...from that second on, I became Bill [Graham’s] go-to background guy.

-Dennis Larkins

CROW WAY!

Current, former and fledgling goths have numerous styles and methods and reasons for being gothy, but most can pretty much agree that the 1994 Alex Proyas-directed The Crow starring Brandon Lee is right up there. The story of this super-gothy dude who is killed but then comes back to life to avenge his and his fiancee’s murder, The Crow attained a bit of a cult status after Lee was accidentally killed on set, but also because of its timeless message of not taking shit from the haters lying down. OK, that’s an over-simplification, but everything about this film, from the music and performances to the dark and broody atmosphere screams that it’s the time of the year we’re all open to partying with ghosts. Also, consider it a makeup tutorial if you like, and we’re not joking. (ADV)

The Crow: 7 pm Thursday, Sept. 21. $15

Violet Crown Cinema, 1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678

TUMBLING ALONG

Though the tumbleweed has become ubiquitous when it comes to the imagery of the Southwest, the rolling, wind-borne plant matter is actually more of a nuisance, according to artist Andrea Cermanski. Her most recent art came after the weeds caused a big problem at her house. “We spent so much time trying to get rid of the things,” she tells SFR. “They’re pokey and ugly and we spent so much time and money.” Then came the idea: Burn ‘em! A longtime artist, Cermanski and folks from her neighborhood acquired the proper permits to gather and burn the plants, then she created paint from the subsequent ash for her new show, Tumbleweed Love Affair. The show reframes the matter, with the paint showing up as deep, textured blacks within minimalist pieces that almost resemble aerial photos of waterways. “I kind of love them now,” Cermanski says of tumbleweeds. “I still realize they’re invasive and a fire danger, but knowing what I can do with them while helping eradicate them? I have a deeper appreciation.” (ADV)

Tumbleweed Love Affair Opening: 5-8 pm Friday, Sept. 22. Free Santa Fe Painting Workshops, 341 E Alameda St. (505) 670-2690

PERFORMANCE TUE/26

FRANKEN-FINE

Mary Shelley’s 1818 Frankenstein has proven such an enduring horror tale that it still finds its way into so many cultural touchstones it’s almost absurd. And though you might think you’ve seen them all (shout-out to Young Frankenstein), you’ve likely never seen anything quite like the take from Chicago-based performance collective Manual Cinema. Stitched together like the eponymous mad scientist’s monster, Manual Cinema’s version finds myriad methods such as shadow theater, puppetry, live music and film techniques coming together into one bizarre yet beautiful creation. Not only that, but the collective peppers in info from Shelley’s own life (and it was wild, believe that). Would it be too on the nose to say this thing sounds alive? Like, if we were to shout at you, “IT’S ALIVE!” from here? (ADV)

Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein: 7:30 pm

Tuesday, Sept. 26. $35-$115. Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234

Nights at the Museum

Vladem

set to open this weekend

Following years of planning, a number of protests over the demolished “Multicultural” mural on the side of the former Halpin Building and a number of staffing changes, the New Mexico Museum of Art will open its Vladem Contemporary wing on Guadalupe Street this weekend with two days of free access to its inaugural exhibit, Shadow and Light

The opening show, curated by former Head of Curatorial Affairs Merry Scully (who left for a museum job in California last year), crams in works from a number of recognizable names such as August Muth, Angela Ellsworth, Emil Bisttram, Erika Wanenmacher, Agnes Martin, Yayoi Kusama, Florence Miller Pierce, Virgil Ortiz, Judy Chicago, Leo Villareal and on and on and on and on. The future looks bright, too, with upcoming show Off-Center focused on New Mexico artists from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s already in the curation process. In the now, however, museum officials tell SFR they’re thrilled to get started.

“That’s a big question,” says current Head of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of 20th Century Art Christian Waguespack when asked how the moment feels. “One of the things I first learned about six and a half years ago, when I came on as curator of 20th century art, was this new direction we were looking at, and despite all the fantastic projects since then, this has been a point on the horizon that really meant something.”

Alongside the museum Curator of Photography Katherine Ware, Waguespack is one of the few employees who has been

with the state Department of Cultural Affairs through the entirety of the planning and execution of the Vladem, which was named for businessman Bob Vladem and his wife Ellen after the couple donated $4 million for naming rights in 2018. Clocking in at roughly 35,000 square feet, the modern building features expanded collections storage—including refrigerated space for photos—movable exhibit walls; educational space; classrooms; galleries; terraces and more, not to mention a special emphasis on accessibility. Vladem will also feature rotating artists-in-residence, a street-facing window dedicated to New Mexican artists, modern exhibiting techniques such as AR and many other amenities too numerous to list. A cadre of local artists also recreated the “Multi-cultural” mural for long-term display just outside the new 2,300-squarefoot Van Mabee Education Center. Plus, Alexandra Terry has joined the staff as Vladem’s new curator of contemporary art (see 3 Questions, page 24).

“The big celebration, the big kickoff— the moment is something we want everyone to feel present for,” Waguespack tells SFR. “This museum is for the community, the people of Santa Fe and New Mexico and anyone who comes here.”

(Alex De Vore)

VLADEM CONTEMPORARY GRAND OPENING WEEKEND

10 am-5 pm Saturday, Sept. 23 and Sunday, Sept. 24. Vladem Contemporary 404 Montezuma Ave., (505) 476-5072

COURTESY MIRAMAX FILMS

COURTESY ANDREA CERMANSKI COURTESY MANUALCINEMA.COM

KIRK GITTINGS; DNCA ARCHITECTS AND STUDIO GP ARCHITECTS: DEVENDRA CONTRACTOR, DEIRDRE HARRIS AND GRAHAM HOGAN

ART OPENING FRI/22

EVENT SAT/23 & SUN/24

THE CALENDAR

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

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WED/20

DANCE

POMEGRANATE SEEDS

YOUTH MENTORSHIP

PROGRAM

Pomegranate Studio

535 Cerrillos Road, (505) 501-2142

An after-school program for young women (13-18 years) founded by dancer Myra Krien. This program runs through spring.

5 pm-7 pm, free

EVENTS

ALL THINGS YARN

La Farge Library

1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292

Knit or crochet with a group and talk about all things textiles.

5:30 pm-7:30 pm, free

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Meet your fellow chess freaks.

10 am-1 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Second Street Brewery

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278

Bring it on, smarty pants. Use some of that knowledge.

8 pm-10 pm, free

HISTORY CHAT

35 Degrees North

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

Walking tour guide Christian Saiia invites locals to gather every Wednesday to discuss local history.

Noon-2 pm, free

Thrice-weekly instructor-led bike rides through the city. Call to borrow a bike if you don’t have your own.

10 am-11 am, $5

MONSOON MUSIC

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Experience a show in a different part of the mulit-verse. An intimate show in the Selig family living room featuring Toni Dear, Slow Alchemy, Bellowing Bear, Jimmy Climbs and Lowmellow.

7 pm, $23

OPEN MIC COMEDY

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Wayward Comedy welcomes you to the stage weekly. Better make 'em laugh.

8 pm, free

QUEER COFFEE GET TOGETHER

Ohori's Coffee Roasters

505 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-9692

Coffee with your local queer community every Wednesday. Get to know your fellow queer Santa Feans. If it has rained meet at CHOMP.

9:30 am-11 am, free

WRITER'S DEN

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

A weekly quiet, communal space to write to the sound of others' clicking keyboards. The last Wednesday of each month features a workshop, too.

5 pm-6:30 pm, free

LET’S TAKE A LOOK WITH CURATORS

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

710 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1269

It’s like a local Antiques Roadshow. Curators from the museum will attempt to identify and explain any artifact that you bring in. See if what you have is worth squat.

Noon-2 pm, free

FILM

FLY FISHING FILM TOUR

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

For faans of fly fishing and cinema, this mini-festival features waters from around the world.

7 pm, $25

RAIN MAN 35TH ANNIVERSARY

Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

Featuring Dustin Hoffman andTom Cruise, Rain Man explores a man’s relationship with his autistic brother before society knew a thing about autism. A touching story about the frustrations of human limitation.

7 pm, free

MUSIC

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Make your jazz heart happy and be in a band without the commitment of being in a band. B.Y.O.B. (bring your own bassoon) or whatever instrument you think you play best.

6 pm-9 pm, free

JUSTIN NUÑEZ

Second Street Brewery

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Local singer-songwriter brings his trilingual folk sounds from Burque.

6 pm-9 pm, free

LAURIE D

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Acoustic blues tunes and BBQ for happy hour this Wednesday.

4 pm-6 pm, free

KIDS SING ALONG:RAILYARD PARK

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

Get those kids singing, moving, and shaking. Teachers SarahJane and Teacher B lead classes through a variety of engaging music games and sing-alongs for toddlers and babies. Located at the playground, donations are appreciated.

10:30-11:15 am, by donation

Elizabeth Hahn’s paintings narrating a woman and her many adventures will show at art is gallery starting Friday, September 22.

COURTESY ART IS GALLERY SANTA FE

BILL HEARNE

La Fonda on the Plaza

100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511

Hang in the La Fiesta lounge with Hearne on this hump-day evening.

6:30 pm-9 pm, free

WORKSHOP

MINDFULNESS-BASED

STRESS REDUCTION CLASS

Unitarian Universalist

Congregation

107 W Barcelona Road (505) 982-9674

An eight-week course designed to reduce stress and address issues of chronic pain. Learn to manage stress and anxiety and life's challenges.

6:30 pm-9 pm, $325

WEDNESDAY EVENING

INTRO TO CERAMICS

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

Get your hands dirty in this intro class. Cost includes 25 pounds of clay, use of community tools and glazes. Firing fees separate.

5:30 pm-8 pm $70

WEDNESDAY MORNING

WHEEL

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

A two-hour pottery class for all levels of clay throwers. This is a seven week course but you can drop in anytime.

10 am-noon, $65

THU/21

ART OPENINGS

CHRISTINA SELBY ART

WALK TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Selby guides you through her exhibit Piñon Country: Illuminating the Interdependence of Life in the Iconic Woodlands of the West.

10 am-11:30 am, $16-$20

HOME: A MODULAR EXHIBIT

Santa Fe Children’s Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Children can pretend to water and grow plants on a Beijing balcony garden, cross over a koi pond, create origami or design a story cloth.

10 am, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

HERSCH WILSON: DOG

LESSONS

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

“When in doubt, walk your dog” is the first of many valuable maxims in Hersch Wilson’s Dog Lessons. We have to agree.

6 pm, free

READING AND DISCUSSION WITH AUTHOR PETER

KALDHEIM

Santa Fe Woman's Club

1616 Old Pecos Trail (505) 983-9455

Author Peter Kaldhei discusses his novel Idiot Wind, where we follow Kaldheim as he flees New York owing debts to a drug dealer.

5 pm-6:30 pm, $10

SANTA FE DREAMING: AUTO ANTENNA: ENCHANTED GUIDE TO SANTA FE POP-UP AND READING

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Red)

1366 Cerrillos Road (505) 428-0996

Readings from authors Stavo Mustang Craft and Bett Williams that explore art and magic as a lifestyle. Pop-up clothing from Hyperclash and other amazing vendors will also be for sale.

6:30 pm-8 pm, free

THE PEOPLE’S TONGUE: ENGLISH IN A DIVIDED

AMERICA

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Cultural commentator Ilan Stavans looks at our verbal history in search of answers of what our language says about our character.

6:30 pm, $15

TODDLER STORY TIME

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon (505) 466-7323

Toddler time! Bring the tiny ones for story and playtime with other toddlers.

10:30 am, free

“BLURB” PRESENTS READERS’ HAPPY HOUR

Santa Fe Woman's Club

1616 Old Pecos Trail (505) 983-9455

Looking for a happy hour that doesn't involve booze? Try this reader's happy hour.

5-6:30 pm, free

DANCE

ECSTATIC DANCE

Railyard Performance Center

1611 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-8309

Nothing feels better than getting the body moving.

6:30 pm, $15

INTRO TO SOCIAL DANCE

Dance Station

Solana Center, 947-B

W Alameda St., (505) 989-9788

Do the tango! What better way to meet people than by gaining a new dance partner? For beginner dancers.

6:45 pm-7:30 pm, $15

POMEGRANATE SEEDS YOUTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

Pomegranate Studio

535 Cerrillos Rd.

(505) 501-2142

An after-school program for young women (13-18 years) founded by dancer Myra Krien.

5 pm-7 pm, free

THE CALENDAR

EVENTS

BEDTIME STORIES: WE HEART NEW MEXICO

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Burlesque, baby! Root on these talented dancers and performers as they give it their all.

7 pm, $27

SANTA FE HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CITY COUNCIL CANDITATE FORUM

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

A forum for City Council Canditates for the upcoming Nov. 7 election. Sponsored by the Santa Fe Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

6 pm-7 pm, free CHESS & JAZZ

No Name Cinema

2013 Pinon St.

Chess playing, jazz listening and free herbal tea. All levels and ages welcome.

6 pm-8 pm, free CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Meet your fellow chess freaks.

10 am-1 pm, free DRAG BINGO

Opuntia Café

1607 Alcaldesa St., Ste. 201 (505) 780-5796

Twenty bucks for six bingo cards, plus the best drag in town. Sign us up!

7 pm-9 pm, $20

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952

Don't call it trivia. Free games with prizes so you won’t walk away empty handed.

7 pm-9 pm, free

MEMBER MORNINGS IN THE GARDEN

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

Become a member of the garden and enjoy gatherings like these where there’s low capacity and coffee and pastries.

8 am-9 am, free SWIPE NIGHT

Cake’s Cafe

227 Galisteo St. (505) 303-4880

Meet the next love of your life at this all-inclusive match-up mixer. Nothing could go wrong here, right?

7 pm-10:30 pm, $5

SFCC AND IAIA OPEN HOUSE

Santa Fe Community College

6401 Richards Ave (505) 428-1000

Start the tour at the Santa Fe Community College and maybe sign up for some classes for the fall. At 1pm head over to the Institue of American Indian Arts see art demos and more.

10 am-5 pm, free

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FILM

THE CROW

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave.

(505) 466-5528

Yup, it’s the ‘94 Brandon Lee movie with all the goth stuff and awesome soundtrack. (See SFR Picks, Page 15)

7 pm, $25

FLY FISHING FILM TOUR

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

For fans of fly fishing and movies.

7 pm, $25

MUSIC

ALEX MURZYN QUINTET

Club Legato

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

Sax-centric jazz.

6 pm-9 pm, free

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Pickin' and strummin'.

4 pm-6 pm, free

DOC AND THE ANTIDOTES

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Hi-Fi Americana originals and covers.

7 pm, free

FELIX Y LOS GATOS

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090

Green chile gumbo blues.

2 pm-5 pm, free

HALF BROKE HORSES

Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge

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

Two-step your way to honkytonk heaven.

7 pm-10 pm, free

LIVE MUSIC THURSDAYS

WITH: SPIVEY

As Above So Below Distillery

545 Camino de la Familia (505) 916-8596

One-man loops

8 pm, free

THE STEEL WOODS

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135

American country rock.

8 pm, $30

THEATER

SEASCAPE

The Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive, B (505) 395-6576

An American couple on the verge of retirement meets a lizard couple.

7:30 pm, $15-$35

WORKSHOP

4TH ANNUAL SCORE WOMEN IN BUSINESS CONFERENCE

Scottish Rite Center

463 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-4414

A conference bringing four accomplished women business owners as speakers to inspire other female-owned small businesses.

9:30 am-2:30 pm, $40

CLARIFYING MEDITATIVE

WORK Online, (505) 281-0684

An online meditation class from the comfort of your own home.

7 pm, $10

HATHA YOGA

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

Gentle yoga with a focus on breath work.

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

LEARN 3D PRINTING

Make Santa Fe

2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

Learn the basics of FDM printing, filaments, 3D models and everything else necessary to complete your first print.

10 am-2 pm, $85

THURSDAY AFTERNOON

WHEEL

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

Here's your chance to pick up a new hobby, and maybe even make something cute to give to mom.

1 pm-3:30 pm, $70

FRI/22

ART OPENINGS

31ST ANNUAL ELDORADO AT SANTA FE ARTIST TOUR (OPENING)

Eldorado Community Center

1 Hacienda Loop, Eldorado (505) 466-4248

New Mexico’s largest art studio tour celebrates its 31st year this weekend.

5 pm-7 pm, free

ANDREA CERMANSKI: TUMBLEWEED LOVE AFFAIR (OPENING)

Santa Fe Painting Workshops

341 E. Alameda St. (505) 490-6232

Artist Cermanski has taken tumbleweeds to flame then integrated the charred remnants with acrylic medium and water. (See SFR Picks, page 15)

5 pm-8 pm, free

ALEXANDRA ELDRIDGE AND LIZA MACKINNON: AND I SAW THIS IN DREAMS (OPENING)

Edition ONE Gallery

728 Canyon Road (505) 570-5385

Paper sculptures of historic costumes and Victorian portraits with the heads of ravens, owls and lions.

5 pm-7 pm, free

ELIZABETH HAHN (OPENING) art is gallery santa fe

419 Canyon Road (505) 629-2332

An acrylic fictional series about a woman and her travels. We can all daydream, right?

10 am-5 pm, free

ERIN CONE (OPENING)

Nüart Gallery

670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888

Cone’s abstract realism aims to provoke human dialogue.

5 pm-7 pm, free

INTERPRETATION: THOMAS CHRISTOPHER HAAG, MARY LONG AND LYNN SANDERS (OPENING)

Owen Contemporary 225 Canyon Road (505) 820-0807

Colorful abstract expression.

4 pm-6 pm, free NATURE'S ARCHITECTURE (OPENING)

Kay Contemporary Art

600 Canyon Road (505) 365-3992

An exhibition of metal sculptures by Kevin Box and oil paintings by Nathanael Gray.

5 pm-7 pm, free PYRA INGERSOLL ART POPUP (OPENING)

Alberto Zalma Art Shop

407 S Guadalupe St.

Ingersoll portrays the feminine, nature and magical symbolism. In the series, "Plume,” she has portrayed the feminine figure with birds and magical symbolism and abstract play. Dark and spooky to fit the season.

5 pm-8 pm, free

TURQUOISE TRAIL STUDIO

TOUR KICK OFF

Mad Contemporary Gallery and Art Center

3 Firehouse Lane, Madrid

Start off your weekend at the Turquoise Trail Studio Tour with live music, drinks and nosh.

5 pm-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

TULKU RINPOCHE: MIND AND PERCEPTION

mind and perception

1221 Luisa St. 805-319-9467

For those curious about the Buddhist lifestye, hear Rinpoche's life story and learn the first step on the Buddhist path. Must register to attend.

6 pm, $25

EVENTS

ART WALKING TOUR

New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Museum docents guide an art and architecture-centric tour of downtown (weather permitting).

10 am, $20

ARTIST DEMO & HAPPY

HOUR FEAT LOREN HAYNES

Four Seasons Resort

198 NM-592 (505) 946-5700

American post-war artist does a live painting during happy hour. Enjoy that cocktail and get lost in watching live painting in a Bob Ross sort of way.

3 pm-6 pm, free

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Meet your fellow chess freaks.

10 am-1 pm, free

CRASH KARAOKE

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Belt out your favorite tunes with litte to no judgment.

9 pm-1 am, free

FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon (505) 466-7323

Bring the kids and pile in to watch Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse with other families. Free popcorn, awesome!

7 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Thrice-weekly instructor-led bike rides through the city.

10 am-11 am, $5

MINIATURES PAINTING

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

Gather weekly to paint table-top game figurines.

4 pm-6:30 pm, free

SANTA FE TEEN CENTER

GRAND OPENING

Santa Fe Teen Center

6600 Valentine Way

A new space for teens to do homework, play video games, read in the quiet area and learn or enhance essential life skills.

(News, see page 9)

1 pm-5 pm free

WALKING HISTORY TOUR

School for Advanced Research

660 Garcia St., (505) 954-7213

Check out the interior of the 1920s estate turned artist residency center. Call for reservations.

10 am-11:30 am, $15

FILM

BICYCLE MOVIE NIGHT: THE ENGINE INSIDE

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

Six individuals embrace cycling as a way to overcome daunting personal and systemic challenges.

7-8:30 pm, $20

OUTDOOR MOVIE NIGHT

Aspen Community School 450 La Madera St. Watch The Super Mario Bros. Movie with free popcorn, a costume contest for students for the best DIY Super Mario Bros. character.

5:30 pm, free

THE SHORT FILMS OF SIMON LIU

No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. Liu is a film artist who seeks to build a lyrical catalogue of the rapidly evolving psychogeography of his place of origin in Hong Kong through alternative documentary forms, abstract diary films, multi-channel video installations and 16mm projection performances.

7 pm, $5-$15

MUSIC

BILL HEARNE

Ahmyo River Gallery Wine Garden

652 Canyon Road (505) 820 0969

Americana and honky-tonk.

2 pm-5 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304 King Charles and occasional guests serenade diners with vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

DESERT DOGS DOWN AND DIRTY

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

Dancing and beers until you just can't go anymore. Wristbands can be used to get into Desert Dogs and Red Velvet at Cakes Café all night.

8 pm-2 am, $10

HEATHER TROST AND HER BAND GHOST

2889 Trades West Rd.

An all-ages show at the coolest DIY venue, experience Trosts’ synth angel sound. .

7 pm, $15

JOHNNY LLOYD

Nuckolls Brewing Co. 1611 Alcaldesa St. Johnny Lloyd jammin' all the old rock-n-roll tunes that you know and love.

6 pm-8 pm, free

Big doesn’t always mean better. Stop by Strata Gallery from Sept 26-Oct 13 to view tiny works from 29 artists.

COURTESY STRATA GALLERY

LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Self-described as "bad-ass dance music and rock-n-roll comedy."

8-11 pm, free

LOS GAITEROS DE SAN JACINTO AND MADALITSO BAND

The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place (505) 557-6182

Just an acoustic guitar and foot drum, an outsize, home-made, one-string babatone and two voices in sweet harmony.

7:30 pm, $25-$30

RED VELVET LOUNGE

Cake’s Cafe

227 Galisteo St. 5053034880

Put on your best dance shoes on—this club rages late.

8 pm-2 am, $10

RHYS JONES AND DAVID

MCKINDLEY-WARD

GiG Performance Space

1808 Second St.

For lovers of Irish music, these two are known for their IrishAppalachian sound. Banjo, anyone?

7:30 pm, $25

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Rehearsed jazz followed by jazz jamming followed. Bring an instrument to jam if you’re feelin’ it.

6 pm-9 pm, free

STRANGERS FROM AFAR

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Happy hour psych-folk alt country from this Santa Fe duo.

5 pm, free

TIFFANY CHRISTOPHER

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 393-5135

Austin-based cellist Mollie Fischer joins gooey cello grooves with loop princess Tiffany Chrisopher.

7:30 pm, $10

NEX+US CHOMP Food Hall

505 Cerrillos Road (505) 772-0946

Discover, Nex+Us is creative community space. Attend community events with art vendors, food, drinks, live music from local artists, DJ and lots of dancing—like hours of it.

4 pm-1am, free

THEATER

UNITED IN BLOOD: THE REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC AND POETRY OF CHILE

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

The artistic, social and political vision of four of Chile’s most beloved musicians and poets: Pablo Neruda, Victor Jara, Violeta Parra and Gabriela Mistral who are all connected with thier deep concern for humanity.

7:30 pm, $25

SEASCAPE

The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, B (505) 395-6576

Imagine walking along the beach and running into two human... lizards? An American couple on the verge of retirement meets a lizard couple that prompts them to think about life.

7:30 pm, $15-$35

WORKSHOP

CARE FOR THE CARE WORKERS WRITING GROUP

Online innerpathwellness@gmail.com

A writing series offering paid and unpaid caregivers a space to creatively explore and decompress.

Noon-2 pm, $50-$70

POTTERY EXPERIENCES

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

Unlock your creative potential at Santa Fe’s premier ceramics workspace and gallery at this one-time course. Get your hands dirty and pick up another craft to feed your hobby compulsion.

4 pm-6 pm, $125

SACRED BIRTH, SACRED BABY Santa Fe, private residence michelerenae505@gmail.com

A four-part series workshop on how to bring our babies into this realm, held in the home of the host.  Registration Required.

5:30 pm, $25-$50

SAT/23

ART OPENINGS

CATHEDRAL PARK SUMMER

ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW SERIES

2023

Cathedral Park

131 Cathedral Place (505) 955-2143

A showcase of local creators.

10 am-5 pm, free

DORA CHAVIRRA: MYSTIC MOTHERS (OPENING)

Alas de Agua 1520 Center Drive #2 alasdeagua.com

New paintings.

10 am-6 pm, free

LAME-A-RADO ART MARKET

Jen Tough Gallery / AIR Studios

4 N. Chamisa Dr. (505) 372-7650 Buy directly from artists.

10 am-6 pm, free

ORIGAMI IN THE GARDEN STUDIO TOUR HOURS

Origami In The Garden

3453 State Highway 14, Cerrillos (505) 471-4688

Instead of just driving by these origami sculptures, pull over and truly check 'em out.

10 am-5 pm, free

SOME KIND OF NATURE (CLOSING RECEPTION)

FOMA

333 Montezuma Ave. (505) 660-0121

Explore climate change and the role that artists have in sparking conversations about the planet.

5 pm-7 pm, free

THE SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

Santa Fe Railyard Market and Alcaldesa streets (505) 982-3373

Be the best gift-giver and shop this local juried art market. The holidays are upon us.

9 am-2 pm, free

TIM KENNEY: TEXTURES IN COLOR (OPENING)

Bishop's Lodge

1297 Bishops Lodge Road

(888) 741-0480

Oil paintings by Kenney portraying the striking color change of the aspen trees in the fall.

5-7 pm, free

TOBY MORFIN (OPENING)

Casa de Adobe

1713 W. Alameda, (505) 919-9288

Check out 34 years of Morfin's artwork at this solo show.

5-9 pm, free

TURQUOISE TRAIL STUDIO TOUR

Turquoise Trail Studio Tour

Hwy 14

Over 40 artisans, painters, sculptors, photographers, ceramicists, fiber artists, glass artists and jewelers on display.

10 am-5 pm, free

VLADEM CONTEMPORARY GRAND OPENING

Railyard Plaza Market and Alcaldesa streets

982-3373

New Mexico Museum of Art has created a new space for contemporary art. (See SFR Picks, page 15)

10 am-5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

POETRY IN THE AFTERNOON

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon (505) 466-7323

Poets Leslie Ullman and Anne Myles will read their works for you.

1 pm, free

DANCE

CONTRA DANCE

Oddfellows Hall

1125 Cerrillos Road, (575) 387-6853

Arrive at 7 pm for a lesson then get dancin’ to great music from The Santa Fe Megaband.

7 pm-10 pm, $9-$10

SANTA FE SCENIC WITH NATIVE AMERICAN DANCERS

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Experience the awe of Native hoop dancers by way of railcar.

7:30 pm, $125-$145

EVENTS

BANDELIER WILDERNESS

PROJECT DAY

Bandelier National Monument

15 Entrance Road (505) 672-3861x1401

Celebrate National Public Lands Day helping out at Bandelier National Monument. Spend the day replacing and/or installing new signs that welcome visitors into the Bandelier Wilderness. Be prepared to hike.

8 am, free

LIFE CIRCLE

FUNDRAISING EVENT

CHOMP Food Hall

505 Cerrillos Road (505) 772-0946

Life Circle Adult Day Center includes programming for elders living with dementia and elders who require support services to enhance daily lives. Buy cocktails and support this group’s mission.

4 pm-8 pm, free

BIRD WALK

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

No need to be a bird expert to attend this bird watching walk. The staff will have binoculars on site if you need.

7:30 am-9 am, $8-$10

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Casual chess, food, shopping and conversation.

10 am-1 pm, free

LA TIENDA FLEA

La Tienda at Eldorado

7 Caliente Road

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

8 am, free

CULTURES AND CREATORS

VISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL

Los Luceros Historic Property West of Hwy. 68, Alcalde (505) 476-1165

Celebrate the rich culture and heritage of the area and foster the participation and support of local artists.

10 am-5 pm, $7, kids free

ROCKY TUCKER'S BIRD WATCHING TOURS

Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve 27283 W Frontage Road

La Cienega (505) 471-9103

Bring binoculars and a snack to check out the wetlands' avian inhabitants (yes, wetlands in the desert). Register in advance.

7:30 am, $5 or by donation

SANTA FE RALLY FOR RECOVERY

Rodeo de Santa Fe 3237 Rodeo Road (505) 471-4300

Rally together to hear inspiring stories of mental health awareness and reselience, listen to live music, play games and enjoy great food.

10:30 am-2:30 pm, free

SANTA FE TEEN CENTER GRAND OPENING

Santa Fe Teen Center 6600 Valentine Way

The new teen center is a space to work on homework, play video games, read in the quiet area, learn or enhance essential life skills, participate in themed events, and create works of art. Free to teens 12-18, this awesome facility will blow your mind. (See news, page 9).

1 pm-5 pm, free UNITED WAY'S WEEK OF CARING

Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center 4801 Beckner Road

A focus on supporting unhoused families and individuals by providing hygiene kits to regional nonprofits. Sign up to volunteer by Saturday Sept. 23.

9 am-11 am, free

FILM

SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS

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

Nostalgic cartoons (think Ninja Turtles, Rocko's Modern Life, ThunderCats etc.) and cereal all day at the local fantasy and scifi specialty bookstore. Pajamas highly encouraged.

11 am-7 pm, free

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FOOD

SANTA FE FARMERS' SATURDAY MARKET

Farmers' Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

One of the oldest, largest and most successful markets in the country—featuring goods from 150 farmers and producers from 15 Northern New Mexico counties.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC

BOB MAUS

Inn & Spa at Loretto

211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-5531

Piano and voice takes on blues and soul classics.

6 pm-9 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

King Charles of Santa Fe and occasional guests serenade diners with vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

CHRIS HARRELL

Nuckolls Brewing

152 Old Lamy Trail, Lamy Folk and singer-songwriter tunes at the Lamy taproom.

4 pm, free

DOWN TO THE MINE FESTIVAL

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

A weekend camping fest in Madrid featuring Peter Rowan, John Francis and the Poor Clares, High Desert Rangers and more. (See music, page 26) Noon, $15-$79

HALF PINT AND THE GROWLERS

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Soak up sunshine and vintage jazz vibes and self-dubbed "swing gumbo" from this five piece. There's nothing like discovering a new music genre.  1 pm-3 pm, free

JAZZ ON THE PATIO

Palace Prime

142 W Palace Ave. (505) 919-9935

Featuring the vocals of Loveless Johnson III alongside Thom Rheam on piano and trumpet, Richard Snider on bass and Ralph Marquez on drums. Enjoy jazz and a fine steak.

5:30 pm-7:30 pm, free

JOHNNY LLOYD

Cafe Catron

420 Catron Street (505) 928-8900

Johnny Lloyd brings country and blues to your brunch.

11 am-1 pm, free

JOHNNY LLOYD

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

Bring the pup down to Madrid and kick back with country jams from Lloyd.

3 pm-5 pm, free

LILA DOWNS AND ANGELIQUE KIDJO

Santa Fe Opera

301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900

Downs is an influental artist in Mexican music, and Kidjo is one of the best of afro-pop.

7:30 pm, $44-$94

MYRRHINE AND THE BIG SUITCASE

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

Soulful blues and heartfelt rock to get the feelers feeling.

8 pm-11 pm, free

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Rehearsed jazz followed by jazz jamming followed.

6 pm-9 pm, free

STREET TREES AND PSIRENS

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Indie all night.

8 pm-10 pm, free

LUMINOUS BEATS

Santa Fe Brewing Company: Eldorado Taphouse 7 Caliente Road (505) 466-6938

If you’re interested in learning hoops and flow arts consider yourself a flow artist or a spectator, this will be a party.

6 pm-11 pm, free

THEATER

NM DRAG KINGS PRESENT: CAREER KINGS!

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

NM Drag Kings perform their childhood career dreams. Be whoever you want! Food and drink specs available this month.

7 pm-10:30 pm, $30-$70

SEASCAPE

The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, B (505) 395-6576

Imagine walking along the beach and running into two human...lizards? An American couple meets a lizard couple that prompts them to think about life.

7:30 pm, $15-$35

UNITED IN BLOOD: THE REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC AND POETRY OF CHILE

Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

The artistic, social and political vision of four of Chile’s most beloved musicians and poets: Pablo Neruda, Victor Jara, Violeta Parra and Gabriela Mistral.

7:30 pm, $25

WISE FOOL FALL CABERET

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Acts all based on the theme “Deep Sea,” this spectacle has mermaids, squids, aerialists and jugglers.

2 pm and 6 pm, $5-$20

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WORKSHOP

AUTUMN EQUINOX RITUAL & YOGA FLOW

The Medicine Shop

1836B Cerrillos Road

An autumn equinox yoga class to help you transition into the next season.

9:30 am-12:30 pm, $45-$50

BEE TALK AND ECO-POETRY WORKSHOP

Santa Fe River

E Alameda and Camino Escondido Bee expert Olivia Carril and Elizabeth Jacobson, for a bee talk and brief exploration of eco-poetry.

1 pm-2:30 pm, free

ILLUSTRATION WORKSHOP FOR TEENS

Southside Teen Center Country Club Road and Valentine Way

A teen illustration workshop with artist Maya Shakur. Is it ever too early to get started on that children's book series?

1 pm-2:30 pm, free

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

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

Elementally-focused yoga designed to open chakras.

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

SUN/24

ART OPENINGS

CATHEDRAL PARK SUMMER ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW SERIES 2023

Cathedral Park

131 Cathedral Place (505) 955-2143

The Northern New Mexico Fine Arts & Crafts Guild showcases local creators.

10 am-5 pm, free

LAME-A-RADO ART MARKET

Jen Tough Gallery / AIR Studios

4 N. Chamisa Drive (505) 372-7650

Buy directly from artists, craftspeople and vendors in our new art facility in the Lamy-Eldorado area.

10 am-6 pm, free

CULTURES AND CREATORS

VISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL

Los Luceros Historic Property West of Hwy. 68, Alcalde (505) 476-1165

Celebrate the rich culture and heritage of the area and foster the participation and support of local artists.

10 am-5 pm, $10, kids free

RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET

Farmers' Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Buy fine art and crafts directly from local creators.

10 am-3 pm, free

TURQUOISE TRAIL STUDIO

TOUR

Turquoise Trail Studio Tour

Hwy 14

Art from over 40 artisans, painters, sculptors, photographers, ceramicists, fiber artists, glass artists and jewelers.

10 am-5 pm, free

VLADEM CONTEMPORARY GRAND OPENING

Railyard Plaza

Market and Alcaldesa streets (505) 982-3373

New Mexico Museum of Art opens a new space for contemporary art. (See SFR Picks, page 15)

10 am-5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

CAROLINE LIU AND EDIE

FAKE: ARTIST TALK

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Liu and Fake dive into deep conversation, discussing their recent collab with Meow Wolf and their overall artistic practice.

3 pm, $5

DANCE

HEY KIDDO WITH DJ

CHRISTINA SWILLEY

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Let's boogie! Get down on the dance floor while DJ Christina Swilley spins her collection of vintage vinyl.

8 pm, free

EVENTS

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Meet your fellow chess freaks.

10 am-1 pm, free

CHESS AT THE MOVIES

Violet Crown Cinema

1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

Casual chess, food and movies.

6 pm-8 pm, free

FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL

Los Luceros Historic Property West of Hwy. 68, Alcalde (505) 476-1165

Walking through the orchard in the fall and picking crisp apples right off the tree—does it get more picturesque? live music, a beer garden, food trucks and of course stories about the property from site staff.

10 am-4 pm, $10

LORE OF THE LAND

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Learn a bit of local history to the sounds of live music by way of railway.

1:30 pm, $115

OPEN MIC JAZZ

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

Join High City Jazz Quartet and be a part of the band.

6 pm-8 pm, free

POP-UP PLAYGROUND

Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road, (505) 316-3596

Kids of all ages can build a fort city out of recycled materials like logs, pallets, boxes, rope, fabric and more.

11 am-3 pm, free

SELF PORTRAITURE

Acequia Madre House

614 Acequia Madre (505) 983-6538

Become familiar and confident with graphite and watercolor and find joy in painting your self portrait. Topics and demonstrations include proportions of the face, technique, color theory and mixing, and style.

11 am-2 pm, $180-$280

FILM

SOUTHWESTERN LIFE AND LANDSCAPES: HISTORIC FILM FOOTAGE OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO AND BEYOND, 1900-1950

Violet Crown Cinema

1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678

This micro-festival features two theaters running historic raw footage and narrative films.

3 pm-5 pm, $10

AMERICAN HOSPITALS: HEALING A BROKEN SYSTEM

First Presbyterian Church

208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544

A film that explores what’s driving health care’s astronomical pricing, consolidation, and inequities.

2 pm, by donation.

MUSIC

BETH ORTON AND HER BAND

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

Raw vocals and upright piano.

7:30 pm, $34-$54

BILL HEARNE

La Fonda on the Plaza

100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511

Nothin’ but old-school country vibes from this musician.

6:30 pm-9 pm, free

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse

414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Master pianist Montgomery performs in the President's Room.

6 pm, free

DOWN TO THE MINE

FESTIVAL

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

A weekend camping fest featuring Detroit Lightining, Dear Doctor, Rumelia, The Hoodoos and more. (See music, page 26) Noon, $15-$79

GARY GORENCE

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road (505) 428-0090

Gorence performs complex classic rock on the patio.

2 pm-5 pm, free

MAGICAL SUNDAYS AT THE CHI

CENTER

The Center for Wisdom Healing Qigong/Chi Center

40 Camino Vista Clara, Galisteo 800-959-2892

Take a beautiful drive out to The Chi Center in Galisteo, enjoy great food and music, walk the land and the labyrinth, and stay for a teaching. Different performers and guests weekly.

10 am, $20

OPEN AND UNPLUGGED ACOUSTIC JAM

Eldorado Community Center

1 Hacienda Loop, Eldorado (505) 466-4248

Calling all strummer, pickers, singers and listeners to join the music-making.

4 pm-6 pm, free

PAT MALONE

TRIO JAZZ BRUNCH

Bishop's Lodge

1297 Bishops Lodge Road (888) 741-0480

The Pat Malone Trio will serenade you and your mimosa every Sunday in September.

11:30 am-2:30 pm, free RON CROWDER BAND

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Daytime jams with a catchy ‘60s rockabilly vibe with Crowder.

Noon-3 pm, free SUNDAY SWING

Second Street Brewery

2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068

Put on that poodle skirt and get ready to twirl it up.

1 pm-4 pm, free

THEATER

UNITED IN BLOOD: THE REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC AND POETRY OF CHILE

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

The artistic, social and political vision of four of Chile’s most beloved musicians and poets: Pablo Neruda, Victor Jara, Violeta Parra and Gabriela Mistral.

2 pm, $25

It’s your move.

SEASCAPE

The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive., B (505) 395-6576

Imagine walking along the beach and running into two human... lizards? An American couple on the verge of retirement meets a lizard couple that prompts them to think about life.

2 pm, $15-$35

WORKSHOP

ART CHURCH

Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503

A monthly gathering place for artists, dancers, astrologers, all those who love to play through the arts.

10 am-12:30 pm, $35-$45

HATHA YOGA

CHOMP - Santa Fe 505 Cerrillos Road (505) 470-8118

Find your flow in the loft of CHOMP.

Noon-1 pm, $10

INTRODUCTION TO ZEN MEDITATION

Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail Valerie Forstman teaches the basics of simply sitting, from breath awareness to dealing with mental chatter. All levels welcome.

10 am-11:15 am, free

SUNDAY MORNING WHEEL CLASS

Paseo Pottery 1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

A seven week course to turn you into a pottery expert. We will walk your pieces through the entire process throwing, trimming, and glazing. Cost includes 25 pounds of clay, all materials, and glazes. Firing separate.

11 am-1 pm, $70

SUNDAY YOGA IN THE PARK

Bicentennial Alto Park 1121 Alto St., 87501

Build strength (and, quite likely, lung capacity) with Vinyasa yoga.

10 am, $15

MON/25

BOOKS/LECTURES

SEVERIN FOWLES

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

Lecture by Severin Fowles: Wolves and Spanish Colonial Predation.

6 pm, free

DANCE

ADULT TAP DANCE CLASSES

Belisama Irish Dance 1225 Parkway Drive, C sititaliano317@gmail.com

Adult tap dance, three levels from beginner to advanced. Step into this rhythmic art form and find or re-find a passion. Shoes are available to borrow.

5:30 pm-6:30 pm, $20-$150

EVENTS

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Meet your fellow chess freaks.

10 am-1 pm, free

CHESS AT THE MOVIES

Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

Casual chess, food and movies. Play timed or untimed, against beginners all the way up to tournament veterans.

6 pm-9 pm, free

COMMUNITY AND CRAFTS

Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Part of ArtWalk Santa Fe, bring your own art project and practice parallel play with fellow artists. RSVP required.

5:30 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

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

Thrice-weekly instructor-led bike rides through the city. Take advantage of Santa Fe’s beautiful trail system.

10 am-11 am, $5

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Tuesday,

EXPERIENCE THE EXTRAORDINARY

FILM

VIDEO LIBRARY CLUB

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Every Monday evening Lisa from Video Library picks a film from her shelves to share on the big screen.

6:30 pm, free

MUSIC

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse

414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Master pianist Montgomery performs in the President's Room.

6 pm, free

KIDS SING ALONG: QUEEN

BEE MUSIC ASSOCIATION

Queen Bee Music Association

1596 Pacheco St. (505) 278-0012

Teachers Sarah-Jane and Teacher B lead classes through sing-alongs for toddlers and babies.

10:30 am-11:15 am, by donation

OSCAR BUTLER

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Smooth out your Monday during happy hour with Butler's clean vocals and acoustic guitar.

4 am-6 pm, free

WORKSHOP

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

The Spa at Four Seasons

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Elementally-focused yoga designed to open chakras.

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

TUE/26

ART OPENINGS

SMALL WORKS (OPENING)

Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403

Small works may be under appreciated because they aren't large scale, but this show begs to differ.

11 am-5 pm, free THE SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

Santa Fe Railyard Market and Alcaldesa streets (505) 982-3373

Shop this local juried art market.

9 am-1 pm, free

EVENTS

CHESS AT THE MALL DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Meet your fellow chess freaks.

10 am-1 pm, free OPEN MIC POETRY AND MUSIC

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Ready to perform for a crowd?

8 pm, free

FOOD

SANTA FE FARMERS' DEL SUR

MARKET

Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center

4801 Beckner Road

Fresh local produce shopping for the Southside? Heck yeah.

3 pm-6 pm, free

WINE & CHILE FIESTA WINE

DINNER WITH LOUIS LATOUR

Terra Restaurant

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5800

Latour is in the house for two nights and two spectacular dining experiences.

5 pm-10 pm, $200

MUSIC

BAHAMAS: THE BOOTCUT TOUR

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135

Bahamas embodies the funky finesse and story-telling along with bluegrass and Americana.

7:30 pm, $28

JEREMIAH GLAUSER

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Taos musician performs folky

Americana country with a New Mexico flair.

4 pm-6 pm, free

THE DOWNTOWN BLUES JAM

Evangelo's

200 W San Francisco St. (505) 982-9014

Loveless Johnson III plays with his band Brotha Love & The Blueristocrats.

8:30 pm-11:30 pm, free

THEATER

MANUAL CINEMA'S FRANKENSTIEN

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

Art collective Manual Cinema stitches together shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, sound effects and live music to re-tell Frankenstein. (See SFR Picks, page 15)

7:30 pm, $35-$115

WORKSHOP

HATHA YOGA

The Spa at Four Seasons

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Gentle yoga with a focus on breath work.

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

POTTERY EXPERIENCES

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

Unlock your creative potential at the Santa Fe ceramics workspace.

3 pm-5 pm, $175

TUESDAY EVENING

HANDBUILDING

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

Become a potter for the long haul and earn various handbuilding techniques and throwing skills.

5:30 pm-8 pm, $70

ONGOING

ART OPENINGS

JOEL NAKAMURA, DUAL EXISTENCE: THE JUXTAPOSITION OF DREAMS AND DRAGONS

Pop Gallery

125 E Lincoln Ave. (505) 820-0788

A blend of folk art and sophisticated iconography rendered in a neo-primitive technique.

10 am-5 pm daily, free

KENNETH SUSYNSKI: A FIRE RACING UNDER THE SKIN

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915

Figurative expressionism meets abstract composition in oil on canvas and linen.

11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri

Noon-5 pm, Sat and Sun, free

ALPAY AKSAYAR AND STEPHANIE ROBINSON

Kouri + Corrao Gallery

3213 Calle Marie, (505) 820-1888

Turkish painter Alpay Aksayar’s Başıbozuklar ‘Irregulars’  opens in the main space, while sculptor Stephanie Robison’s ‘Forms of Persuasion’ occurs simultaneously in the front gallery.

Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

AN INNOCENT LOVE: ANIMAL SCULPTURE ARTISTS OF NEW MEXICO

Canyon Road Contemporary Art 622 Canyon Road (505) 983-0433

The cutest little animal sculptures you ever did see by artists Kari Rives and Fran Nicholson.

10 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri

10 am-6 pm, Sat

10 am-4 pm, Sunday, free BARBARA MCCULOCH: TRACES IN TIME AND SPACE art is gallery santa fe 419 Canyon Road (505) 629-2332

This oil and cold wax series evolved from a fascination with the mysterious energies driving the imagination.

11 am-5 pm daily, free

CARLOS CARULO Goldleaf Gallery 627 W Alameda St. (505) 988-5005

Small scale abstract watercolors.

9:30 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri, free

CECILIA KIRBY BINKLEY AND REG LOVING

New Concept Gallery 610 Canyon Road (505) 795-7570

Binkley’s plein air paintings are intuitive and exhilarating translations of nature and the landscapes of New Mexico and southern Colorado.

Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS

ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320

A multimedia group show featuring Laurinda Stockwell, Norma Alonzo, Tracy King and more.

10 am-5 pm daily, free

Arturo Sandoval is presented through the support of Cherie and Michael Gamble and Dr. Thomas McCaffrey 23–24 Season Sponsors: Ann Murphy Daily and William W. Daily, Gina Browning and Joe Illick, Robin Black, Leah Gordon

10-time GRAMMY award winner

He gazes at you long enough before saying, Life loves life and YOU are life.

We invite you to discover Emahó, the Wanderer.

Emahó Speaks: From a Foreign World Talk Sessions

Saturday, October 7 / 14

12—2 pm

Admission: $25.00

Walking the day with more respect and courage, inspiring people to live as spirited human beings.

Invocations

Sunday, October 8 / 15 3—8.30 pm

Admission: $150.00

An incomparable coming together of the elements, space, sound, movements, and the frequencies of a twilight.

Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W. Marcy Street

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The New Mexico Museum of Art is slated to hold the grand opening for Vladem Contemporary, its new contemporary satellite wing, this week (10 am-5 pm Saturday, Sept. 23 and Sunday, Sept. 24. Free. 404 Montezuma Ave., (505) 4765072), and with the inaugural exhibit Shadow and Light featuring names like Erika Wanenmacher, Judy Chicago, Yayoi Kusama, Virgil Ortiz and many more, it should be a big deal. Also notable? Officials announced late last week that the space finally has a dedicated curator— Alexandra Terry. Terry comes to Santa Fe by way of the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, where she served in a similar role, and she has other impressive bonafides, too, including seven years as a curator in London for a nonprofit Iranian arts organization, as an archivist and as an arts collective member. Since Monday was Terry’s first day on the job, we thought it would be a great idea to get in the mix straight away with a few Qs. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

(Alex De Vore)

You’ve got a wide array of impressive positions on your resume—what made you want to come work at Vladem Contemporary/in New Mexico?

I grew up in Colorado, in Denver, and when I was in junior high school, my father bought some land in Northern New Mexico, just across the border [near Questa], and that led to a period spending a lot of time just north of Taos and really falling in love with landscape, the land, the community; it’s almost a second or third home. Most of my adult life, my father has lived here, so I’ve felt sort of a connection to the place. So, when I saw the job listing, I just became fascinated with the history of the museum and really excited about the potential of joining at this historic moment.

I have never lived here, but I’ve spent a good amount of time and have that familial connection. As I flew over Los Angeles yesterday, I shed a tear, but there’s a really

different kind of beauty, a striking beauty, to the desert and the mountain regions.

It’s only your first day, but do you have specific goals for what you’d like to do just yet?

I think my priority is to connect with this community, and a big part of that is becoming acquainted with my amazing colleagues, who have all been so amazing and open. I’d like to do a listening tour, a meeting tour to get to know folks in the community. The artists working in the region have a deeper understanding of the land and the city, and that will help me in terms of...exhibition goals.

Given the controversy surrounding this particular museum, and the “Multicultural” mural coming down—which you obviously had no part in whatsoever—do you believe curators have an ethical responsibility to the communities in which they work, and, if so, how might that be applicable?

Sure. Yeah. I mean, I know so little about the mural controversy, so I can’t speak to that with any sort of accuracy, but what I can say is that collaboration is incredibly important to my curatorial practice. It’s not just about me working with artists—and I primarily work with living artists—it’s about working with the folks around me and creating relationships with civic bodies, local buzz, other art institutions. I think that all art institutions can really benefit from having a wide array of voices.

In my previous role at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, for every exhibition I worked closely with the engagement team to identify pockets of the community to really expand upon context... The artwork is here for the public, the local and regional folks and the folks passing through, and any time you can provide more context with the individuals who come to engage it’s deeper.

[When it comes to younger people] I had the privilege of growing up with parents who are artists and people who love culture, though the arts are not always as easily accessible to all individuals and all communities. But accessibility is a major priority of mine. This museum space is for all, and that is the responsibility of the entire staff. That goes across departments to make sure people feel welcome here. A curator’s job is as someone who serves the community. There will be times when there is artwork on view that’s challenging, yes, but how can a curator collaborate with others or create an opportunity for more context so young people feel welcome, curious and engaged? The arts, we know, are incredibly important to young folks in terms of education, socialization and forming relationships with the community around them.

with New Mexico Museum of Art’s Curator of Contemporary Art Alexandra Terry

COURTESY NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART

Dear John

BY JILL PRENDERGAST author@sfreporter.com

Drive along Cerrillos Road every other Wednesday and you’ll see the marquee lit up at the El Rey Court: “Tonight: John Francis and the Poor Clares.”

The bi-monthly residency has proven symbiotic for band leader/founder John Francis Mustain’s band as well as the historic motor lodge: Most events at El Rey’s bar space La Reina allow Santa Fe’s freaky denizens the chance to elbow down with the patrons who’ve arrived in town on a tourist junket. John Francis and the Poor Clares have been known to pack ‘em in with a combination of borderline beachy guitar riffs and pop sensibilities by way of a sorta-kinda Jackson Browne thing with some of that folk/Americana sound the Santa Feans love so much. Yes, we’re talking fingerpicking and pretty melodies. We’re talking acoustic instruments here, people.

The band has been around a minute, too, since well before the pandemic, but as the El Rey continues to become a stalwart musical oasis in Midtown (that Y La Bamba show over the summer was great), it might be time to assemble a timeline. In addition to the weekly residency at the El Rey and a slot at the upcoming Down to the Mine fest in Madrid, the Poor Clares have been in recording mode, both with an as-yet unheard set of songs recorded last year and with a newer self-produced record in progress at Santa Fe’s Kitchen Sink Studios. Why haven’t we heard these tunes just yet?

“You get so mired in the landscape of [mix, sound and orchestration] that it takes a lot of different experiences to get a more objective view of what it is,” Mustain tells SFR. “I felt that we all had a similar mutual sense of its mood. Like, when you put things into their proper place they can embody their identity with so much more clarity”. Finding a worthwhile musical identity can be tough, and Mustain does it in the good

old-fashioned ways, like recording to tape when possible and/or building a following in-person with live shows rather than on the internet. Much music these days seems to hinge on the apps and algorithms, but whereas the black holes of Instagram and Tik-Tok have proven both a crutch and buttress for making dreams come true one 60-second video at a time, Mustain arms himself with only a flip phone, a guitar, his singing voice and a handful of musical buddies. He says he’s found it difficult to participate in the online share culture of the pandemic. So how do we share and engage intellectually?

“I don’t think we have to,” Mustain says. But let’s take it back to 2019, when the band first got the La Reina gig (the next three fall at 8 pm on Sept. 20, Oct. 4 and Oct. 18). Things started to propel forward quickly, according to Mustain.

“Musically, energetically—I think the whole band felt like something good was coming,” he explains.

In early 2020, Mustain and company set out to record their first album in an un-renovated suite at the El Rey, but we can guess where this goes.

“We were recording a week before the lockdowns,” he says. “I’d reached out to engineer [Jason Hiller] who specializes in analog recording, and he offered to bring out equipment from LA—namely, this vintage tape machine I loved.”

Band members scrambled to make it hap-

pen, but everything fell like dominos amidst the early COVID panic. Hiller canceled due to COVID concerns.

“It was a really difficult time in so many ways,” Mustain says. “Home, relationship; I mean, it just destroyed me. Years of waiting, preparing? It took a while to repair.”

A year later, he received another call from Hiller.

“He offers me that tape machine for free,” Mustain says. “It was such a beautiful act of redemption, generosity.”

Luckily, Mustain’s pal Rosa Pullman was heading to Santa Fe anyway and was willing to drive the machinery from Los Angeles. Even luckier? A friend of Pullman’s named Zeile August came shortly thereafter to visit. She fell in love with the Poor Clares sound and offered to pay for their next record.

“Basically, we lamented this whole saga: ‘I don’t even have the kind of money hanging around to buy the low end gear—I’ve just never not been broke.’” Mustain recalls telling August. “She called me a week later and said, ’I wanna give you guys the funds to make a record.’”

Talk about a win. But it gets better. At a show not long after, Mustain met recording engineer Marc Whitmore, who had just moved to town to open his own private recording studio. Together, they created the tracks for an album with the working title Train Songs. That likely won’t stick, and with the Poor Clares working on new material already, it’s uncertain what their fate might be. In total, Mustain tells SFR, they kept four of the seven tracks they recorded with Whitmore. They might release them piecemeal in the lead-up to the full length they’re completing at Kitchen Sink—but no one’s in a rush. He wants the songs to be as good as they can be before taking the next steps.

Besides, he says, community is one of the most important byproducts of people playing music together. In a town like Santa Fe, where the rentals keep going up and the venues where musicians can thrive outside of positions as background music are few are far between, that’s practically non-negotiable—especially if younger people (read, not boomers) are going to continue to ply their trades here.

“There’s so much stacked against young creative people,” Mustain says. “We have to represent ourselves...just to show this city we deserve to live here. Because it doesn’t think that we do. We deserve to be supported as all these people did here 40, 50 years before us. We can’t just sell the image of what used to exist here; it’s shooing good, not wealthy, interesting people out of this town. Why don’t we just make art in defiance of that?”

Tunes inspired by classic folk and country music seem a good place to start—those genres are pretty rooted in rising up—especially when they’re as soulful and beautiful as these. Catch the band this Saturday at 4:30 pm as part of the Down to the Mine Festival in Madrid.

Down to the Mine Festival Noon-9 pm Saturday, Sept. 23 Noon-10 pm Sunday, Sept. 24. $49-$89 Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743

John Francis Mustain is taking his band the Poor Clares to the next level.

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John Francis and the Poor Clares make a name for themselves with acoustic folky sound

You get so mired in the landscape of [mix, sound and orchestration] that it takes a lot of different experiences to get a more objective view of what it is .

-John Francis Mustain

BY ANNABELLA FARMER author@sfreporter.com

Santa Fe author Alexandra Diaz launched her latest novel at Purple Fern Bookstore in Eldorado this month, wearing a white headband in her dark hair to match the girl on the cover of her book as she leaned into a rumor that the image was based on her (it’s not).

Farewell Cuba, Mi Isla (Sept. 5, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books) is the fourth standalone novel in Diaz’s award-winning middle-grade immigration quartet, which began with The Only Road in 2016, followed by The Crossroads and Santiago’s Road Home in 2018 and 2019 respectively.

Diaz’s 12-year-old protagonist, Victoria, loves her home in Cuba, with its beautiful landscapes, delicious food and, most of all, her family. She spends time riding horses on her grandfather’s idyllic farm and hopes that, one day, it will all be hers. But history has other plans. It’s 1960 in Cuba, and Fidel Castro has been in power for a year. As the political climate grows more dangerous, Victoria, her parents and her two siblings are forced to leave the rest of their family behind and seek refuge in the US.

Farewell Cuba is the most personal tale Diaz has tackled so far. Loosely based on the

story of her mother’s immigration, Diaz’s tale follows Victoria’s family as they flee communist Cuba for a new life in Miami. They leave the island believing their exile is only temporary—that they’ll be able to return after the upcoming US presidential election. The timeline begins to stretch, however, raising doubts that they’ll ever make it home.

When Diaz’s editor suggested she write about her own family’s experience, she was reluctant.

“It always did feel very personal, and it wasn’t something that I wanted to dive into,” she tells SFR, “but I did see it as an opportunity.”

She decided it was time to tell the story in the form she loves: middle-grade fiction.

“I never stopped reading middle-grade and [young adult]—it’s what I feel comfortable with,” Diaz says. “I always felt attuned to that audience.”

In fact, she earned her master’s in writing for young people at Bath Spa University in England. Still, she asked her mother’s permission to write the book, knowing that it would be difficult for her to revisit some of those memories. Telling the story to a young audience meant that Victoria, at 12, faces different challenges than Diaz’s mother did when she came to the US at 17. Diaz captures the mentalities of school kids of any era, and Victoria’s struggles—teasing, exclusion and uncertainty—will feel familiar to anyone. But she also offers unique insight into that particular time and

place: the culture shock, changing gender role expectations and issues surrounding integration in schools, among others. Diaz’s books can be read on many levels, depending on the age of the reader; some might read it for the historical and political context, some for the character dynamics, some just for a good story. And Diaz paints a vivid picture of her characters’ home in Cuba, drawing on her mother’s memories, particularly of her grandfather’s farm where, Diaz says her mother told her, he’d grown “every fruit you could imagine.”

Diaz also had access to photographs her aunt smuggled out of Cuba through the Swiss embassy, and colors Farewell Cuba with her own memories of living in Puerto Rico, with its similar plants and landscapes.

She goes even deeper, too. In order to flesh out the details of characters’ daily lives—the cost of an apartment, minimum wage and grocery prices, for example—Diaz sourced information from the archives of the Miami Herald. Finding specifics about life in Cuba at the time was more difficult, and since much of the information about events in the country is restricted, she had to rely largely on the memories and anecdotes of friends and family members.

“It was frustrating,” Diaz explains, “because I couldn’t find exact dates, so it would really depend on one person saying, ‘Oh yes, I know it was definitely this day, because that was my daughter’s birthday,’ or something random like that.”

Still, their accounts helped her to fill in immersive specifics: At one time, ex-pats were allowed to leave Cuba with no more than $5, and later, only a dime to make a phone call upon their arrival in the US; there came a time when professionals like engineers were no longer allowed to leave the island.

“It was really challenging to accept that not all of my dates were going to be historically accurate,” Diaz says.

Her uncertainty parallels that of Victoria and her family, though, who end up with little access to information about the goings-on in Cuba after their exodus. Instead, they rely on limited reports from American newspapers and radio broadcasts. This centers the novel in real-life history, and Diaz chose the most pivotal historical dates to craft the arc of her story.

“The Bay of Pigs was the time that every Cuban essentially lost hope,” she says. “That was when they knew there was no home to come back to, and that Fidel was never going to relinquish his power.”

In the book, it’s a devastating blow— but for Victoria, it strengthens her determination to help her family make Miami home.

Santa Fe author Alexandra Diaz delves into personal history with Farewell Cuba, Mi Isla

A Haunting in Venice Review

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Filmmaker and actor Kenneth Branagh returns as Agatha Christie’s most charming detective Hercule Poirot, replete with his version of the fabled mustache, in A Haunting in Venice, a rather fun little jaunt based on Christie’s Hallowe’en Party. In addition to starring in the film about murder most foul, Branagh also directed the tale re-set from its original British locale to the sinking-est city in all of Italia.

Here Poirot has retired to the canals, where he’s left casework behind for a queue of needy would-be clients on his doorstep and daily pastries, gardening and, probably, mustache combs. He’s really simplified his existence when a friend and author from the states named Ariadne Oliver (a capable if unremarkable Tina Fey) arrives to coax him back into the fray with a seemingly impossible setup: A medium is scheduled to hold a seance at the most haunted house in Venice, and Ariadne thinks she can get a book out of it. She’s all about due diligence and thus invites Poirot to come kick the tires, as it were, and see if the medium is for real.

Said medium (the ever-brilliant Michelle Yeoh) does indeed wish to contact the dead, namely the daughter of the opera singer Rowena Drake (Kelly Reilly) who bought the haunted house shortly be-

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 3

+ GREECE SURE IS PRETTY

- UNFUNNY; UNORIGINAL; UNINTERESTING; UNREDEEMABLE

Nobody saw Nia Vardalos’ My Big Fat Greek Wedding coming when it released in 2002, but the filmmaker’s first foray into the world of movies proved a critical and financial darling. It was a fun film that worked by being genuine and cute.

Then came the sequel no one wanted in 2016, which would have been forgivable if not for the recent release of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3—a sequel so devoid of humor, originality, pep, enjoyment, stakes, drama, good writing, interesting cinematography, music or even hope that it almost feels insulting to have watched it. I mean, I’m a Greek dude myself, and I’ve seen how our families operate—not a one of us goes around reminding literally fucking everyone that we’re Greek at any opportunity, yet that’s the bulk of Vardalos’ newest film.

This time out, the Portokalos family with all of its barely-there facsimiles of characters head to Greece for a family reunion at the behest of up-and-coming matriarch Toula (Vardalos). Everyone’s there, from the dimensionless brother (Louis Mandylor) and the pair of aunties who are just so full of non-threatening sass (Andrea Martin and Maria Vacratsis) to Toula’s non-Greek husband (John Corbett) and daughter (Elena Kampouris, who kind of just makes ruh-roh faces anytime she’s on screen).

Toula’s dad died at some point between the last

fore the kid died mysteriously some months ago. Obviously a whole mess of people attend the seance, some end up dead and Poirot re-learns why he loves detecting in the first place. Throw in a few red herrings and a surprising twist ending, and baby—you’ve got a Christie plot.

Branagh has certainly eked out his own take on the much-performed Poirot, and though he’s no Albert Finney, he certainly goes the extra mile with that Belgian accent in his third appearance as the character following Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. Fey can’t quite keep up with the perhaps more studied actor, despite her reciting a few good lines throughout the film. Is it possible she was hired for her killer transatlantic accent impression? Maybe so. Either way, the good stuff doesn’t get rolling until Yeoh’s medium character arrives all full of tears and barely-whispered portends of death.

The wider cast of suspects is a veritable who’s-who of detective fiction, from the tortured WWII war doc (a melodramatic Jamie Dornan) and his creepy bookworm kid (Jude Hill) to the ultra-religious housekeeper (Camille Cottin), the deceased girl’s former

movie and now, so she’s supposed to bring his journal to his childhood best pals from the old country. And so begins 90 minutes of jokes about souvlaki and sheep who wander indoors and the overbearing nature of Greek moms and blah fucking blah blah blah.

Vardalos, who wrote the script and here directs, might have bothered to at least not recycle literally three jokes ad nauseam, but instead chooses to stitch together roughly 40 scenes that only connect because the characters tell us so. In fact, so little of MBFGW3 reads like a cohesive film that I was nearly convinced I’d had a stroke before I walked in. Rather than craft something meaningful, like the first film, Vardalos has instead tossed some deus ex machina and MacGuffin elements into the type of script that might serve as a warning for what not to do, peppered in a few jokes about food and cooking, snuck in the quickest bit of nonbinary representation and one throwaway line about helping Ukrainian refugees and then, one can only assume, cashed her check for the free work trip to Greece and moved on.

This film is crammed with toothless humor, zero character development and one of the most exhausting long lost brother moments in the history of long lost brother moments. Only Martin and Vacratsis offer any levity or quality acting (looking at you, Joey Fatone from N’Sync, who is somehow in these movies) or reasons to laugh with sincerity. Shame on them for making this thing and shame on audiences for continuing to allow it. Boo! Filth! Muck! Slime! Rubbish! Boooooo! (ADV)

fiancee (Kyle Allen) and a retired cop who has been working as Poirot’s bodyguard (Vitale Portfoglio), among others. A Haunting truly excels, however, in setting up a whodunnit with tried and true horror tropes: Did a bunch of orphans die in this house? Check. Does Poirot hear them singing? Check. Do the seance participants get stuck in the house because of a storm? Big time.

Just like most good detective stories, this one wends its way back to a perfectly logical explanation, though a chilling one you likely won’t see coming unless you read the book. Heading into fall, A Haunting in Venice feels just right, even if it doesn’t break new ground or forever change film. Know what’s cool about scary (or semi-scary) movies? They don’t have to rewrite the game, they just have to be fun. This is that.

A HAUNTING IN VENICE

Directed by Branagh

With Branagh, Fey, Yeoh, Reilly, Dornan, Cottin, Hill, Allen and Portfoglio Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 103 min.

BOTTOMS

7

+ VERY WEIRD AND FUNNY

- DOESN’T EFFECTIVELY EXAMINE ITS PREMISE

Ayo Edebiri is having one hell of a run. Not only does she play the second lead on the wildly popular foodservice drama series The Bear, she picked up some voice work as April O’Neil in Mutant Mayhem, the first good Ninja Turtles outing in who knows how long, and now stars alongside the very funny Rachel Sennott in Bottoms, a sort of teardown of horny teen comedy cinema tropes told in borderline Airplane! type parody.

Bottoms find’s Edebiri’s Josie and longtime best pal PJ (Sennott, who also co-wrote the script) hitting senior year and desperate to fuck. Think of it like Olivia Wilde’s enjoyable 2019 comedy Booksmart, only sillier and much dirtier. Platonic friends PJ and Josie are queer, and both have leaned heavily into a rumor they served time in juvie over the summer as a means of gaining clout. To get closer to their crushes Brittany and Isabel (Kaia Gerber and Havana Rose Liu), our heroines devise a faux self-defense class that operates under the guise of empowerment while actually operating like a fight club. They bring their teacher Mr. G (a surprisingly hysterical Marshawn Lynch) along for the ride as a faculty advisor.

And so begins the lie, which actually does start to make its participants—a ragtag group of weirdo women who join for various reasons—feel empowered. Meanwhile, the players on the school football team led by the irascible and arrogant Jeff (Nicholas

Galitzine, who absolutely nails his role as a dangerously entitled prick) feel threatened by the show of feminine solidarity and together set out to destroy the club. Caught up in football fever and a rivalry with a nearby school, the faculty and student body are of no help. Will Josie and PJ bone their crushes? Will the football team get between them? Why does Jeff suck so hard?!

For those who missed the criminally underrated Shiva Baby, being the last time Sennott teamed with Bottoms director Emma Seligman (the film’s other writer), this new one is a must. It identifies so many terrifying high school norms and lambasts them that it almost feels like a public service. From toxic masculinity and sports culture to entitlement, violence and sex, Sennott and Seligman’s script attempts to address the absurdity of what we consider normal, and Edebiri’s deceptively high-strung performance steals the show at every turn. Sennott’s funny, too, but wisely gets out of Edebiri’s way. The larger cast of freaks and geeks feels so right.

Bottoms does sadly stop short of truly deconstructing the issues it brings to the surface, though it’s likely that’s a statement in and of itself. We accept so much when we’re young, and the so-called adults often let it ride. Bottoms might as well be a riff on the antiquated idea that boys will be boys, too, and serves up a reminder that everyone has issues. Still, it’s quite funny and very strange and not at all the sort of film we often see in mainstream theaters. If nothing else, if you ever wanted to see a football player get kicked right in his stupid face, your ship has come in. (ADV) Violet Crown, R, 91 min.

‘Twas a dark and stormy night...

by Matt Jones

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65 Yale students

66 Washington, D.C., baseball team, familiarly

67 Art sch. study

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2 “Spiral Jetty” state

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6 At the drop of ___

7 ___ Chico (“Agua Mineral” brand)

8 “Young Sheldon” rating

9 Ad tagline for the frustrated and confused

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PSYCHICS

Rob Brezsny Week of September 20th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): So it begins: the Building and Nurturing Togetherness phase of your astrological cycle. The next eight weeks will bring excellent opportunities to shed bad relationship habits and grow good new ones. Let’s get you in the mood with some suggestions from intimacy counselors Mary D. Esselman and Elizabeth Ash Vélez: “No matter how long you’ve been together or how well you think you know each other, you still need to romance your partner, especially in stability. Don’t run off and get an extreme makeover or buy into the red-roses-andchampagne bit. Instead, try being kind, receptive, and respectful. Show your partner, often and in whatever tender, goofy way you both understand, that their heart is your home.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): From May 2023 to May 2024, the planets Jupiter and Uranus have been and will be in Taurus. I suspect that many Taurus revolutionaries will be born during this time. And yes, Tauruses can be revolutionaries. Here’s a list of some prominent rebel Bulls: Karl Marx, Malcolm X, activist Kathleen Cleaver, lesbian feminist author Adrienne Rich, Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, artist Salvador Dali, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and dancer Martha Graham. All were wildly original innovators who left a bold mark on their cultures. May their examples inspire you to clarify and deepen the uniquely stirring impact you would like to make, Taurus.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini writer Joe Hill believes the only fight that matters is “the struggle to take the world’s chaos and make it mean something.” I can think of many other fights that matter, too, but Hill’s choice is a good one that can be both interesting and rewarding. I especially recommend it to you in the coming weeks, Gemini. You are poised at a threshold that promises substantial breakthroughs in your ongoing wrangles with confusion, ambiguity, and enigma. My blessings go with you as you wade into the evocative challenges.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author Crescent Dragonwagon has written over 50 books, so we might conclude she has no problem expressing herself fully. But a character in one of her novels says the following: “I don’t know exactly what I mean by ‘hold something back,’ except that I do it. I don’t know what the ‘something’ is. It’s some part that’s a mystery, maybe even to me. I feel it may be my essence or what I am deep down under all the layers. But if I don’t know what it is, how can I give it or share it with someone even if I wanted to?” I bring these thoughts to your attention, Cancerian, because I believe the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to overcome your own inclination to “hold something back.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In her book Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface, psychologist and author Martha Manning says she is more likely to experience epiphanies in “grocery stores and laundromats, rather than in the more traditional places of reverence and prayer.” She marvels that “it’s in the most ordinary aspects of life” that she is “offered glimpses of the extraordinary.” During these breakthrough moments, “the baseline about what is good and important in my life changes.” I suspect you will be in a similar groove during the coming weeks, Leo. Are you ready to find the sacred in the mundane? Are you willing to shed your expectations of how magic occurs so you will be receptive to it when it arrives unexpectedly?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “These are the bad facts,” says author Fran Lebowitz. “Men have much easier lives than women. Men have the advantage. So do white people. So do rich people. So do beautiful people.” Do you agree, Virgo? I do. I’m not rich or beautiful, but I’m a white man, and I have received enormous advantages because of it. What about you? Now is a good time to tally any unearned blessings you have benefited from, give thanks for them, and atone by offering help to people who have obtained

fewer favors. And if you have not received many advantages, the coming months will be an excellent time to ask for and even demand more.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My favorite creativity teacher is author Roger von Oech. He produced the Creative Whack Pack, a card deck with prompts to stimulate imaginative thinking. I decided to draw one such card for your use in the coming weeks. It’s titled EXAGGERATE. Here’s its advice:

“Imagine a joke so funny you can’t stop laughing for a month. Paper stronger than steel. An apple the size of a hotel. A jet engine quieter than a moth beating its wings. A home-cooked dinner for 25,000 people. Try exaggerating your idea. What if it were a thousand times bigger, louder, stronger, faster, and brighter?” (PS: It’s a favorable time for you to entertain brainstorms and heartstorms and soulstorms. For best results, EXAGGERATE!)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you buy a bag of popcorn and cook it in your microwave oven, there are usually kernels at the bottom that fail to pop. As tasty as your snack is, you may still may feel cheated by the duds. I will be bold and predict that you won’t have to deal with such duds in the near future—not in your popcorn bags and not in any other area of your life, either literally or metaphorically. You’re due for a series of experiences that are complete and thorough and fully bloomed.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Writer George Bernard

Shaw observed that new ideas and novel perspectives “often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.” As you strive to get people to consider fresh approaches, Sagittarius, I advise you to skip the “blasphemies and treason” stage. If you proceed with compassion and good humor, you can go directly from “jokes and fancies” to “questions open to discussion.” But one way or another, please be a leader who initiates shifts in your favorite groups and organizations. Shake things up with panache and good humor.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Novelist and astrologer Forrest E. Fickling researched which signs are the worst and best in various activities. He discovered that Capricorns are the hardest workers, as well as the most efficient. They get a lot done, and they are expeditious about it. I suspect you will be at the peak of your ability to express these Capricornian strengths in the coming weeks. Here’s a bonus: You will also be at the height of your power to enjoy your work and be extra likely to produce good work. Take maximum advantage of this grace period!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The British band Oasis has sold over 95 million records. The first song they ever released was “Supersonic.” Guitarist Noel Gallagher wrote most of its music and lyrics in half an hour while the rest of the band was eating Chinese take-out food. I suspect you will have that kind of agile, succinct, matter-of-fact creativity in the coming days. If you are wise, you will channel it into dreaming up solutions for two of your current dilemmas. This is one time when life should be easer and more efficient than usual.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “When sex is really, really good,” writes Piscean novelist Geoff Nicholson, “I feel as though I’m disappearing, being pulverized, so that I’m nothing, just particles of debris, smog, soot, and skin floating through the air.” Hmmmm. I guess that’s one version of wonderful sex. And if you want it, you can have it in abundance during the coming weeks. But I encourage you to explore other kinds of wonderful sex, as well—like the kind that makes you feel like a genius animal or a gorgeous storm or a super-powered deity.

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