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Fiesta Talk A Q&A with 2021’s Don Diego De Vargas, Doug Nava

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he ceremonial burning of the Michael Jackson-inspired Old Man Gloom last Friday heralds the beginning of another, even longerstanding tradition: the Fiesta de Santa Fe. But it’s early-morning Mass at the St. Francis Cathedral that officially starts the 309th Fiesta on Friday, Sept.

10. In-person events through Sunday include dancing, music and food on the Plaza, though crowd-pleaser parades will not make an appearance. To the Santa Fe Fiesta Council, the weekend commemorates “Don Diego De Vargas’ peaceful reoccupation of the City of Holy Faith in 1692,” and marks his reported prayer and promises to La Conquistadora, a version of the Virgin Mary.

Yet, the roots of the tradition are not without controversy. The conquest of the city led to bloodshed of the region’s Indigenous people and set the stage for centuries of conflict to follow.

In 2018, the council and other stakeholders agreed to retire the Entrada, a reenactment of the “peaceful” version of events, after protesters decried its mythical portrayal of colonialism.

In light of other recent events forcing Santa Fe to confront parts of its darker history (see the city’s quiet removal of the De Vargas statue one summer morning last year and the public destruction of the obelisk a few months later), Fiesta comes at a delicate time for the city.

Enter Doug Nava. The Fiesta Council selected 46-year-old Nava to serve in the role of De Vargas—the man depicted in a tattoo on his right arm. Nava has been nothing short of steeped in Fiesta culture since his youth and tells SFR he has the goal of sowing unity with his two-year reign. The interview has been edited for space and clarity.

SFR: Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Doug Nava: I was born and raised in the downtown area [of Santa Fe]. I live one mile from [the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis]. So I come from a family that’s been working on the Plaza all their lives. I’m also part of the Navas, which is Nava Elementary School, [Francis Xavier] Nava was my [second] cousin, the first man in Santa Fe to lose his life in Vietnam...I’m also the eighth person in my family, between De Vargases and Reinas, to receive the title since 1952.

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Why is it important to you to serve as Don Diego De Vargas?

I’ve been trying to get this title since 1997, so I waited 24 years before I heard my name get called. The first time I ran for Don Diego De Vargas was in 1997 at the age of 21, at the time the cut off age was 21 years old. I turned 21 and I got on the stage right away. And I’ve been on three cuadrillas: 1997, 1999 and 2004...This title means a lot to me. I’m very old school in my traditions and my beliefs, but I was raised extremely traditional. La Conquistadora is the most important thing. I tell everybody, ‘She’s the reason why I live.’ You know 10 years ago, I had open heart surgery and I owed my survival to her.

What do you hope to accomplish in this role?

My goal is to stop that stigma that the Spanish people were bad people 400 years ago. I understand history wasn’t the best, but if a lot of people did their history, Don Diego De Vargas died while on expedition to Bernalillo to stop the Apaches from attacking the local pueblos. There’s a lot of that stuff people don’t realize. Unfortunately, anybody who reads history, you always interpret what you want. I just want that stigma of what people think we are—every painting of a Spaniard, they always have that glare on their face—but I want people to understand that we’re a good community...Fiesta de Santa Fe, that celebration is no different than a feast, we just do it in a different language.

My purpose of this role is to make the Spanish people proud of who they are. I hear so many times when they say they’re taking our culture away, and I want the Spanish community to understand they really aren’t. No, I want people to realize you can’t take away 300 years. It’s a matter of just remembering. When the De Vargas statue was removed, I was heartbroken, but at the same time, I would rather have it somewhere safe than always having

Doug Nava in the Santa Fe Fiesta Court role of De Vargas. SFR will publish Q&As with La Reina Christina Isabel Lovato Perea and Native Princess Desiree Royba at sfreporter.com.

to scrape off spray paint and stuff like that. It’s kind of like when you go to the cemetery; you pay honor on those headstones.

Do you think most people in the Santa Fe community have a factual understanding of Fiestas?

I think it’s based off whatever history book you [read]. You’re going to have those people that are going to write pro to the Native American side, and tell what they want to say about the Spanish.

And you have those people that read the Spanish side, where they talk about the peace and all that stuff—it’s all your own personal interpretation, it’s what you get out of it. I’ve read the books, and I’ve read what the Natives have written on this. Yeah, they talk about how they were treated. And then you read the Spanish and they talk about what they came in to. You can only believe what your heart wants to believe.

I’m very close with all my great great aunts and one night I asked them, “Was it always like this?” And my aunt says, “Yeah, there was always that one little person that didn’t believe in it.” She

said, “We just have the type of social media that makes it easier to inform everybody about it.”

There’s been a lot of talk about division in Santa Fe this year. Does it feel more divisive to you than in other times in the city?

I would have to say it’s only a fourth [of the population] because most everybody is pretty chill and we’re all getting along...

But if I can come out strong—and not strong, as a Spaniard and a conquistador carrying a sword and stuff like that— strong in my beliefs and in my faith, I can start the domino effect this way instead of that way.

When they vandalize something, it angers Native American people [and] it angers Spanish people too, because we don’t want to see destruction. No one likes to see destruction. It’s one thing to be vocal, it’s another thing to be disruptive. But protesting stuff, that goes all the way back to the ‘60s and ‘70s. And I understand that, but at the same time, we can be peaceful...To some, they might have not believed we lived in peace then, but we can live in peace now.

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SFR helps Santa Feans do the math ahead of the 2021 municipal elections WILLIAM MELHADO w i l l i a m @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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uestion: In Santa Fe’s upcoming mayoral election, candidate A receives 560 votes, candidate B earns 680 and candidate C gets 265. Which candidate won?

Answer: It depends on how the voters ranked the candidates.

With the final voting day two months away, city residents are still getting to know the numbers and faces of the city’s Nov. 2 mayoral and City Council contests. There are plenty of options and, with another shot at rankedchoice voting, Santa Feans don’t have to choose just one.

Much ink has been spilled already; recriminations have followed accusations, especially at the top of the ticket.

The angst and anger fall into the city’s longstanding fault lines. Call them divisions—that’s what the politicians’ and would-be office-holders’ campaign staffs and vocal supporters call them.

Ranked Choice Voting

The toppling of the Plaza obelisk on Indigenous Peoples Day last year, what preceded it and what’s followed have created ample opportunity to toss mud. And there are plenty of disagreements over what else is important and what Santa Fe needs to become a better, more unified city.

Speaking of those divisions, you’re in luck, Dear Reader: SFR passed high school math and offers here a refresher on the voting system, how to participate, sketches of the candidates in the handful of contested 2021 municipal races and where they stand on the issues. (Absent is District 2 Councilor Carol Romero-Wirth, who is running unopposed.)

The 2018 municipal election marked Santa Fe’s first foray into ranked-choice voting. There were some hurdles, and confusion remains about how it works, despite SFR’s sincere efforts to explain it and debunk the various wild-eyed court challenges against using it. Let’s try it one more time: Consider the election math problem we posed above: Candidate A earned 37% of the votes, B won 45% and C received 18%. Without a clear winner who earns more than half of the votes, the candidate with the lowest percentage of votes is eliminated and those votes are distributed to candidates A and B, based on the voters’ second choices.

In this scenario, 225 of those votes go to candidate A and the other 40 go to candidate B. The new percentages for round 2 show that candidate A is the winner.

Ranked choice voting kicks in for the seats with at least three candidates in the race: the mayor and District 1 councilor for this election. It’s not required to rank more than one candidate for each race, but doing so gives voters more of a voice in the final outcome.

Candidate

Round 1 Percent of Vote (Total Votes)

Round 2 Percent of Vote (Total Votes)

A - WINNER

37% (560)

52% (560 + 225 = 785)

B

45% (680)

48% (680 + 40 = 720)

C

18% (265)

(Eliminated)

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Alan Webber Age: 72 Education: Bachelor in English, Amherst College Occupation: Incumbent mayor of Santa Fe

Alan Webber often carries a quote in his back pocket. At the height of this year’s campaign, he shared one with SFR. He figures it speaks to his take on the divisions that have marked the election season.

“I have friends on both sides of this issue, and I always stand with my friends.”

Webber attributes the phrase to the long-dead US Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois—who both championed the Civil Rights Act and defended the Vietnam War to the bitter end—aligning his own political strategizing to the well-known senator’s. Webber adds: “I have friends who disagree with me on policy issues, but we talk about our disagreements and we work them out.”

With his first, mixed bag term coming to a close, Webber—the city’s first full-time mayor and a Canyon Road resident—has encountered plenty of disagreements.

He prefers to discuss his accomplishments, dividing them into two categories: pre- and post-COVID. “The first two years we were building city government; we were hiring a great team, we were putting investments into place,” Webber says, pointing also to significant increases in housing units, water supply and the creation of the Alternative Response Unit, a team composed of a caseworker, paramedic and

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Last week - The county clerk verified that each of the 12 candidates collected the required number of voter signatures to make the ballot.

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Sept. 9 - Mayoral public forum hosted by the American Institute of Architects at Restaurant Martin at 11:45 am. Register at aiasantafe.org/ calendar/

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Sept. 13 - Mayoral public forum hosted by Santa Fe Hispanic Chamber of Commerce via Zoom at 5:30 pm. Register at facebook.com/SFHCC/

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Fe Chamber of Commerce and the Santa Fe Housing Action Coalition at The Lensic and online. Each evening program begins at 6 pm. Business and economic issues are the topic on Oct. 4; housing on Oct. 5. Register at web.santafechamber.com/events/

JoAnne Vigil Coppler

last day for voters to register online via the New Mexico Secretary of State website, sos.state.nm.us.

Age: 67 Education: Master in Public Administration, University of New Mexico Occupation: City councilor, District 4 and real estate broker

Oct. 15 - Alternate site early voting begins at seven locations including the Southside Library, Christian Life Church and county fairgrounds in Santa Fe. Final day of early voting when residents can register and vote in person with the county clerk.

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Oct. 19 - Deadline to register to vote by mail and request an absentee ballot. Ballots may be dropped off at the county clerk’s office and the alternate sites for early voting.

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Oct. 30 - Final day of expanded early voting.

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Nov. 2 - Election Day. In-person polling places are open from 7 am to 7 pm.

police officer, trained to respond to behavioral health issues.

Webber, who is serving in his first elected position after founding, then selling, Fast Company magazine before he moved to Santa Fe, tells SFR his administration worked toward “modernizing and professionalizing city government.”

The effort paid off when COVID hit, forcing most city services online.

The mayor is quick with another cliché in describing his e-government initiatives: “The time to fix the roof is before it starts raining.”

Webber considers himself a listener and a consensus-builder, saying he’ll use those traits to address what has been the thorniest issue of his term: the obelisk.

Last June, the mayor publicly called for the removal of the monument to Union soldiers who also slaughtered

Native people. Now, he claims he had no direct hand in what happened a few months later, when activists took the obelisk down themselves and police stood down.

Its destruction, Webber argues, prevented wider unrest in Santa Fe over controversial monuments.

On fences, in newspapers, in yards, advertisements denouncing Webber’s handling of the painful subject have cropped up around town. The signs, distributed by Union Protectíva de Santa Fé, have drawn the mayor’s ire, resulting in an ethics complaint and an accusation against his opponent, City Councilor JoAnne Vigil Coppler, of colluding with the non-political organization.

Vigil Coppler denies the claim, drawing this response from Webber: “If she doesn’t want to be associated with them, she should disavow them.”

“I want to take everything on,” JoAnne Vigil Coppler tells SFR, mid-lament on the nightmare that is parking downtown. “That’s why I’m running.”

Though Vigil Coppler has no plans to build another parking garage, she has plenty of other thoughts on local government.

One of her mantras, “What gets measured, gets done,” highlights how she hopes to run the city if she defeats Webber. Among her priorities: cleaning up and beautifying public spaces, improving homeownership opportunities and addressing the city’s growing unhoused population.

The construction permitting process needs fixing, too, she says.

Constituents and businesses have come to her, exasperated over the long and burdensome process.

Whether it’s “homeowners, just getting a remodel permit, up to a new commercial building project—it doesn’t matter how small a job, or how big a job it is.”

Vigil Coppler believes her experience in public administration—a subject she taught at UNM—will enable her to work with the Land Use Department to create timelines that will improve the permitting process.

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District 1

Signe Lindell

Alexis Martinez Johnson Age: 39 Education: Bachelor in Environmental Engineering, New Mexico Tech Occupation: Former environmental engineer

Age: 66 Education: Doctorate in Education, West Virginia University Occupation: Incumbent city councilor, District 1

As Alexis Martinez Johnson canvasses outside the downtown post office off S. Federal Place, her twins, James and Vera, sit in the grass lawn blowing bubbles.

It’s difficult to hold a continuous conversation with Councilor Signe Lindell on the patio of JW Windsor’s, as a seemingly endless stream of colleagues and constituents keep stop-

Alexis Martinez Johnson keeps her children occupied with bubbles while petitioning residents of Santa Fe for signatures outside the post office.

and it’s your job to figure out what that is,” Carson says. “And every candidate running for office has a special talent and, ideally, through this election process, people get to figure out who that is.”

He lists an in-depth knowledge of Santa Fe’s housing market among his talents. As president of the Santa Fe Association of Realtors—a role he will vacate at year’s end—Carson maintains he’s uniquely suited to help tackle the city’s seemingly endless housing crisis.

His solution? Coupling the need for more units with sustainable growth that will ensure future dwellings support everyone who lives here.

“The school teacher is the classic [example],” he says. “These are people everyone wants in the community and yet we don’t build housing that they can afford and so there’s a disconnect.”

Carson maintains a particular fear of sprawl that has diluted Santa Fe’s housing brand—which he admits sounds “pejorative,” but nonetheless is central to the City Different.

Signe Lindell says hello to some constituents in District 1 outside JW Windsor’s.

ping to say hello. It’s evident Lindell is well known in this part of town as the District 1 councilor for the past eight years. Before that, she was a city planning commissioner. She wants to continue meeting her constituents and building those relationships.

“We need 84? Well let’s go get 840; that’s going to be fun,” Lindell tells SFR of her plan to gather 10 times the required signatures to make the ballot.

“It’s always relationships. You meet so many people and part of the deal is making everybody comfortable in the big tent,” Lindell explains. “You don’t always agree on everything but we have relationships where, when we disagree, we can get through it.”

Lindell touts her track record of handling constituent issues and attending community events as evidence of her commitment. Additionally, Lindell notes the steps the council has taken to expand affordable housing, crack down on short-term rental enforcement and provide services for those experiencing homelessness.

Brian Gutierrez Age: 50 Education: Santa Fe High School Occupation: Owner, Santa Fe Recycles

One of Brian Gutierrez’s family traditions involves biking down to the Plaza in the summer with his wife and four children, getting ice cream and watching the long days fade into the night. When protesters felled the controversial centerpiece of the Plaza last

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ing to get a lot of tax-exempt services, they’re not going to have to pay certain things, who’s really getting the deal?” Johnson says, noting that the city requires developers to provide affordable housing for only five years.

Johnson lost the race for the state’s 2020 3rd Congressional District against Teresa Leger Fernandez, earning 41% of the vote—a surprisingly strong showing that pundits credit to her anti-abortion stance popular with voters in the north. She lives in the South Capital area.

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on the ballot and the lack of online options for gathering signatures, which Johnson says put her at a heightened risk for COVID-19 exposure.

“A lot of people want to Trumpsplain me,” she says, adding that some have written her off because of her conservative views. “I’m here to represent voices and have an equitable campaign.”

Like Vigil Coppler, Johnson points to tension between the mayor and city employees, which she attributes to “a huge discord in regard to cultural values.” She doesn’t anticipate that bad blood will dissipate if Webber is reelected.

One area where Johnson thinks she can improve the city: housing.

“If you’re going to build apartment complexes and the developers are go-

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“I have my two beautiful children right here, I’m a mother, I’m an environmental engineering professional, I’m really concerned about our water resources, our wastewater management and our transportation services,” Johnson tells a resident signing her nominating petition.

The signature gathering has posed challenges, Johnson tells SFR. But later, she’d succeed in filing enough to see her name on the ballot.

“The more money that you have,” the larger a candidate’s “megaphone,” Johnson says. “It is very difficult to overcome the finances.”

The campaigning experience has centered equity issues for Johnson.

She points to delays she encountered when requesting the appropriate forms—in English and Spanish—to get

As a former HR director with the city and Los Alamos County, she sees an unhappy city workforce.

“What’s more important to me, in my tenure on City Council, is that city employees be treated fairly.”

Webber spent over $310,000 to win the last election, a record, and Vigil Coppler says that makes a mockery of the city’s public financing system.

Yet, she also says she chose to rely on private dollars to compete with him instead of the paltry $60,000 given to mayoral candidates who qualify for public financing.

“I’m not intending to be a millionaire mayor. I’m competing with the millionaire mayor, and that’s not the kind of example I want to set,” she says.

Roger Carson Age: 61 Education: Bachelor in Accounting, College of Santa Fe Occupation: Real estate broker, Keller Williams

Roger Carson doesn’t have any grand illusions of politicians. At one point in a conversation with SFR, he equated them to the animals at SeaWorld.

“Every animal has a special talent,

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awareness of inequities to the council as representative of the Southside, pointing to the disparate amount of affordable housing between the east and south sides of the city.

“I think it shows how disconnected we are as a community, because if we were a community we wouldn’t be functioning that way,” she says. “I totally believe in the idea, ‘It takes a village.’”

Alan Webber Alexis Martinez Johnson JoAnne Vigil Coppler Joe Hoback Roger Carson Brian Gutierrez

Lee Garcia Amanda Chavez Rebecca Romero Candidates often talk a big game when it comes to their passion for public service, but which individuals seeking a seat this year walk the walk when it comes to voter participation?

SFR requested contested candidates’ Secretary of State voting records from the county clerk to find out. Their names appear here in the order in which they will appear on the ballot.

Councilors Vigil Coppler and Abeyta show the strongest local voting histories, participating in

October, Gutierrez tells SFR, his daughter was upset.

“Some people have said that the younger generation doesn’t care about X, Y and Z,” Gutierrez says of the divisive obelisk. “She had a connection there. To my family, it was more than just an obelisk, good, bad or otherwise.”

Gutierrez wishes more had been done to prevent the toppling, but he says, “Until you walk in those shoes you really don’t know what’s happening.”

A focus for Gutierrez’s campaign is basic city services that, he laments, have been in need of repair: smooth roads, clear medians, graffiti-free buildings.

Gutierrez’s vision involves relocating City Hall to Midtown Campus, which he says would provide more equitable access to local government while helping to develop the area around St. Michael’s Drive.

“Everything’s centrally located,” he says of his proposed move. “From there, Midtown grows organically because everyone wants to be next to City Hall.”

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the last eight regular municipal elections in Santa Fe. Johnson, Carson, Romero and Chavez were the least engaged voters.

Johnson was registered to vote in Socorro County between 2004 and 2010, voting in one municipal election in 2010, but then did not vote again until 2019. Chavez voted in two state elections in 2020. Santa Fe municipal elections were held in even years in March between 2006 and 2018, then moved to odd years in November 2019.

Joe Hoback Age: 63 Education: Associate in Management, American Institute of Banking Occupation: Former president, Land of Enchantment Federal Credit Union

Joe Hoback plans to win the crowded race by knocking on as many doors as possible in the northeast district. He

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equates his daily canvassing strategy to the way most people think about going to the gym: “I really need to work out today, I should really go,” Hoback tells SFR. “And then I go and I get into it and I get done, and I’m like, ‘It was good.’”

Hoback tells SFR he was pounding the pavement long before this campaign season.

“My first real job was delivering newspapers,” he says. “I’ve been working for the residents of District 1 since the ‘70s.”

Hoback’s history with the city— his grandmother started the Pink Adobe restaurant where he worked as a general manager—has shaped his experience.

Hoback wants the city to set an example by raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour—an action he says the council can achieve by passing an ordinance, much like the living wage ordinance passed in 2003.

Roman “Tiger” Abeyta Age: 48 Education: Capital High School Occupation: Incumbent city councilor, District 3 and chief professional officer, Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Fe

Abeyta was happy to hear he had an opponent in the District 3 contest for his re-election because it provides constituents with options—and the power to exercise their right to choose.

“The one thing I’ve always advocated for is greater participation and voter turnout in District 3,” Abeyta tells SFR. For his first council term, he faced no opposition for an open seat.

But he’s not conceding the western most district, especially not with everything he has planned in the coming months—most notably, the long-awaited teen center that many credit to Abeyta’s advocacy.

“District 3 as a whole, but specifically where the teen center is going, we have the largest concentration of young people,” Abeyta says, pointing to the collection of schools in his district. “It’s going to be a great place for teens to hopefully go and get resources,” while also providing young people with a place to socialize, says Abeyta.

Abeyta notes that urging the opening of the Southside library as an early voting site and promoting vaccination clinics in District 3 reflected his commitment to constituents.

He wants to build on his work with the Alternative Response Unit, the de-escalation team that takes lowthreat 911 calls.

“We got to reimagine public safe-

Lee Garcia identifies areas of District 3 to canvass in preparation for the election.

situation and that of the city, which he says also suffers from a dwindling workforce.

The deficit of employees, he says, prevents the city from meeting residents’ needs. With his experience in business, Garcia thinks he can change that.

“Yes we are for-profit, but we provide a service to our community that is so vital,” Garcia says, pointing to the work his business does with the city, county and state to demonstrate the unique perspective he would bring to the council. “We provide tires to the Fire Department for the city, we install the tires for the trash trucks.”

Garcia says the city could benefit from a more business-like approach, while providing more training for municipal employees: “I think as a governing body...we need to focus on our base structure of organization from management to all the way down. It starts with good leadership.”

ty,” Abeyta says. “We were putting too much of a burden on our police by having them do everything, from giving the simple traffic ticket...to dealing with the serious crime.”

Lee Garcia Age: 45 Education: Master in Business, University of Phoenix Occupation: Owner, Garcia Tires

Lee Garcia’s father, Guadalupe Garcia, started fixing his neighbor’s tires on the side of their house in Chimayó in 1974.

Demand was so high, he had to open a brick and mortar storefront to meet it.

The younger Garcia says customer service is key.

When SFR meets him on a recent day, he’s helping a customer at the front counter, even though he owns three tire shops.

“I lost a few employees and now I’m working in the business again,” Garcia admits.

Garcia has had staffing troubles and notes the parallels between his

Amanda Chavez Age: 36 Education: Master in Educational Leadership, Grand Canyon University Occupation: Director of special education, Santa Fe Public Schools

“If there’s any quality that you can have as a leader, it’s empathy,” Chavez says of her new role with the school district as director of special education. She says the position is less demanding than her previous job: principal of César Chávez Elementary School—but there’s a catch.

“The further you get from students, the harder those changes are,” Chavez says.

Whether she’s at work, raising her two children or walking the neighborhoods of District 4 to canvass, Chavez says people often ask her, “Why do you do so much?”

She tells SFR she wants to set an example for her children and community.

“My mom would always tell me, ‘As long as you’re capable, you do.’”

Chavez hopes to bring her keen

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Signe Lindell Roman “Tiger” Abeyta

Rebecca Romero points to the public restrooms in a state of disrepair at Franklin Miles Park, which she says reflects the city’s lack of attention to public spaces on the Southside.

Rebecca Romero Age: 37 Education: Capital High School Occupation: Management analyst, New Mexico Department of Health

Rebecca Romero kicks at a slew of goatheads, saying they’re a sign of unmaintained baseball fields and what she calls neglect by the city at Franklin Miles Park.

This public space leaves room for improvement, Romero tells SFR, especially when compared to the baseball fields in Alto Park. “They’re really nice,” Romero adds. “Well, they’re downtown, they’re downtown. And that’s the problem.”

Romero wants to bring more city employees to the Southside to help clean up the parks.

“The city is so short staffed, and that’s my big concern right now is we need to get our city employees back into the office. We need to get them fully staffed,” Romero tells SFR. “We need to set an example…‘Look, as a city we do care.’”

While walking the neighborhood just west of the park, where she grew up, Romero speaks with constituents concerned about an apartment complex being squeezed between Cerrillos Road and the quiet streets off Siringo Road.

“See how they just stuck them behind buildings?” Romero says of the swelling development in District 4 and how that will impact residents, who tell her: “‘Nobody listens to us. Nobody wants to take our comments into consideration and we’re having a hard time getting opinions out there.’”

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TWO-PART HARMONY Whatever else happens, it’s nice that smaller venues reliant on year-round offerings have at least a little bit of a chance to host shows after the horrible yearplus lockdown. We’re talking places like GiG Performance Space, where longtime Bonnie Raitt bass player Freebo comes to town this week alongside singer-songwriter Alice Howe. Technically, they’ve got their own folky/Americana-y practices, but when Howe and Freebo join forces, it’s like some kind of harmoniously brilliant acoustic Voltron coming together. Vocal and guitar harmonies? Yeah—they’ve got those, and they’ve got them in such beautiful abundance, Santa Feans who love that unplugged sound (of which we know there are many) will probably want to be there. (Alex De Vore) Freebo with Alice Howe: 8 pm Saturday, Sept. 11. $22 GiG Performance Space, 1808 Second St., gigsantafe.com

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Speaking of smaller venues that are just trying to get by and thusly bringing in events again, you could do a lot worse than Stand-Up Comedy Night at Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery. This weekend, a veritable cornucopia of jokesters join host Tripp Stelnicki to make jokes and keep things light. Honestly, due to the shape of the world, something like this might just hit the spot.

You know that old axiom about laughing instead of crying, right? Think of it like that when folks like Isabel Madley, Phil Johnson and TJ Jones take to the stage for a little levity. Oh, also, the beers down there are good as hell. (ADV) Stand-Up Comedy Night: 8:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 11. $5 Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fria St., (505) 303-3808

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SPARK IT Mayhap you’ve heard by now that cannabis will be fully legal in New Mexico by April next year (or possibly sooner if the powers that be can work it out), but maybe you don’t quite know how or why that’s happened. Setting aside how it’s medicine, it’s awesome, there are incredible economic possibilities and you should mind your own damn business, Beckie, know that the move is ultimately a good one. Then catch up with Rep. Andrea Romero and other state Dems as they explain the struggle and maybe give us some insight into why peach rings are so good with cannabis. We kid—this is seriously business, but also an interesting bit of state political history unfolding before our very eyes. (ADV) How Cannabis Legalization Came to New Mexico: 5:30 pm Monday, Sept. 13. Free Democratic Party of Santa Fe, 1420 Cerrillos Road, (505) 467-8514

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“An Alien Got My Cow Again” Lecture focuses a great enduring mystery you might not know about “I was teaching anthropology at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville [in the 1970s]. One day, the chief of police contacted the anthropology department,” Nancy Owen Lewis, a current scholar-in-residence for the School for Advanced Research, tells SFR. “He needed some advice for a problem that was wreaking havoc.”

A cow and horse had been mutilated, and police discovered strange “altars’’ in the vicinity, according to Lewis. The chief of police wanted to know if there was a connection and, in a Jurassic Parkesqe twist, enlisted researchers, of which Owen was one. It wasn’t an isolated incident, either, and authorities soon found slaughtered cattle in ranches across Arkansas—not torn to shreds by wild animals, but methodically taken apart.

Similar cases had already been reported in Colorado, Montana and—get this—New Mexico.

Lewis’ talk, Pastures Possessed: The Cattle Mutilation Conspiracy delves into this bizarre period in human history, which some, she says, blamed anything from UFOs and Satanic worshippers to Soviet spies and Los Alamos-related government experiments. Closer to home, New Mexico had reports of mysterious black helicopters scooping up living cattle and depositing their carcasses afterwards. No one was ever charged.

“The pattern suggested this was a deliberate account by a perpetrator, described as a ‘classic mutilation’ and ‘surgical removal of the animal parts,’” Owens continues. “There were no signs of a struggle or tracks, and it was often accompanied by these strange sightings.”

Through hundreds of interviews throughout her investigation, Lewis’ inner anthropologist emerged. She became fascinated with similar events taking place across the country with two different responses: Arkansians tended to see the crisis in a religious light, while New Mexicans looked toward the stars or speculated that the Los Alamos National Lab and the feds were up to no good.

Lewis’ talk, held in partnership with the Historic Santa Fe Foundation, will focus on the conspiracies and the cultural and spiritual explanations locals had for the crisis.

For Lewis’ part, she’s got some theories— but she’s staying mum until the talk.

“There’s so much we don’t know,” she teases. “What mysteries might be left?”

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RIO BRAVO FINE ART Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000 Paintings, sculpture and fiber art from 28 featured artists from Truth or Consequences.

All day, free SHOELUCCINATIONS: THE SECRET LIFE OF SHOES Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Highway 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450 Shoes, glorious shoes! Barbara Burzillo, faced with a closet full of shoes which no longer reflected her lifestyle, transformed them into whimsical sculptures.

Promised to be anything but traditional and even occasionally pun-based. For those who like their art a little more eccentric.

All day, free TERMS & CONDITIONS Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Porter Lara is a conceptual artist who’s interested in the ways humans use ideas about what is “natural” to naturalize political constructs.

These ideas are expressed via sculpture, printmaking and sign-making, as well as sewing and embroidery.

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ONGOING ART RAVEN @ THE BIG BANG TAI Modern 1601 Paseo de Peralta (505) 984-1387 Ramona Sakiestewa is a central figure among contemporary Native American artists. This exhibition features renditions of ravens, a prevalent animal in many Native American cultures.

All day, free 9/11: IN REMEMBRANCE Monroe Gallery of Photography 112 Don Gaspar Ave. (505) 992-0800 Exhibition of photographs commemorating the 20th anniversary of 9/11, exhibiting the construction, prominence and destruction of the World Trade Center.

All day, free GIVING VOICE TO IMAGE ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320 Both gallery artists and local poets created art inspired by one another—art inspired by poetry and poetry inspired by art.

All day, free GO WEST SAID A SMALL VOICE New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Landscapes, woodblocks and marionettes by Gustave Baumann.

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BOOKS/LECTURES HISTORY AND CULTURE TALKS 35 Degrees North 60 E San Francisco St. (505) 983-6138 Join Christian Saiia for history and humor, coffee and conversation. Fun and informative talks about the city and region in which we live.

Noon-2 pm, free (but, like, buy a coffee or something)

EVENTS GOVERNOR'S MANSION DOCENT TOURS New Mexico Governor's Mansion One Mansion Drive (505) 476-2800 See beautiful art, period furnishings, and design reflecting New Mexico's Native American, Spanish, Mexican and American cultural heritages.

Noon-2 pm, free HOTLINE BINGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 Bingo like you've never played it before—a new theme every other week! $2 buy in per round. Fun prizes and cash jackpot. If you come in costume, you get a free round.

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THU/9 ART CREATING POWERFUL WATERCOLORS Artisan Santa Fe 2601 Cerrillos Road (505) 954-4172 Learn to approach watercolor techniques in an bold and dramatic light. Experiment with scrubbing, dripping, splashing and glazing in a loose textural manner. Learn non-traditional tools, brushes and painting vertically on an easel. Taught by Nadine Charlsen.

1 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES PASTURES POSSESSED: THE CATTLE MUTILATION CONSPIRACY Online historicsantafe.org Nancy Owen Lewis lectures on a series of mysterious cattle mutilations from the 1970s, many of which were in New Mexico. Was it aliens? Or humans—or something else?

Probably humans. But maybe aliens. (see SFR picks, page 17) 3 pm, $10

DANCE BEGINNING/INTERMEDIATE SALSA WORKSHOP Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St. dancestationusa.com (505) 989-9788 Maybe you've got a little of that salsa skill, maybe you're looking for inspiration to keep going, or maybe you're just getting yourself started to fulfill that deep dream you've had to dance the night away in Buenos Aires, which your family always scoffed at you over—say goodbye to your parents and get the dream started here and now.

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EVENTS CARNIVAL Santa Fe Place Mall 4250 Cerrillos Road fraziershows.com Neon lights, rides, carnival foods, music shows and joy—basically the answer for that time you were driving by the mall, saw all the lights and had no clue what was going on. Plus, you can skip the line and buy online (at the link above). For the people who like joy in their lives, not the miserable old cows.

All day, $1-$75 for rides and game tickets

QUEER OPEN MIC Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196 Come take risks, explore edges and bring your fierce and tender selves to the stage!

Performance may include poetry, prose, music, dance, comedy, spoken word, theater, or movement. Doors and signups open at 6:30.

7 pm, $5-$10

FILM THE ALPINIST Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678 Hello climbing weirdos—check out an advance screening of a new documentary from the co-director of The Dawn Wall that focuses on free solo climber Marc-André Leclerc. In partnership with the Santa Fe Climbing Center.

7 pm, $15

FOOD COOKING CLASS: GREEN CHILE WORKSHOP Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511 Learn how to make green chile everything.

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“Ah-Shi“ from Harvey Maisel, part of A Place Like No Other: Photographs in the New Mexico Badlands at Edition One Gallery, opening Sept. 10.

HORSE Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie Horse-related artwork by Raven Halfmoon (Caddo).

All day, free SEETHE Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403 Photography centered on the emotional expression of the human form.

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NAVIGATORS Vital Spaces 220 Otero St. Drawings and sculptures.

Open by appointment. Contact jerrywellman1@gmail.com.

All day, free OUR LIVES NOW El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Photography capturing rural life in the pandemic.

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YELLOW USED IN ART Placitas Community Library 453 Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-3355 The Placitas Community Library Art Committee's challenged artists to create referencing the color yellow. Come see what they came up with.

10 am-5 pm, free FIREBRANDS: JUDY CHICAGO, SWOON, AND HUNG LIU Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681 Exhibition includes historic art

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PARADIGM Ventana Fine Art 400 Canyon Road, (505) 983-8815 Paintings from Bette Ridgeway and sculptures by Mark Yale Harris.

All day, free PEOPLE Southside Public Library 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Santa Fean portrait studies.

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SHE Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708 Photos of American and Middle Eastern young women.

All day, free BALANCING CULTURES Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 Show exploring JapaneseAmerican WWII incarceration.

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PLAY THE GAME Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574 Show exploring digital “dis-connection.”

All day, free RECONCILIACIONES Hecho a Mano 830 Canyon Road (505) 916-1341 Art inspired from Shinto and Mexican traditions.

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We at SFR have made no secret of our love for the works of local artist Erin Currier, a combination of painting, found collage and portraiture. We even went so far as to have Currier design the cover for our 2020 Best of Santa Fe issue. That’s pretty much why, when she called to say she was ready to debut a new series at her longtime gallery Blue Rain (5-7 pm Friday, Sept. 10. 544 S Guadalupe St., (505)954-9902), we said “Well, sure, we’d love to throw a few Qs your way!” Currier’s new body focuses on the idea of transformation through portraits of iconic folks like Icelandic environmentalist Greta Thunberg, Nigerian ultimate fighter Israel Adesanya and American mycologist Paul Stamets. There’s subtext in there about how human suffering can and does connect us, but if one had to zero in on an unofficial theme for Passion, Pathos, and the Human Potential, it would probably be something like hope.

(Alex De Vore) Without trying to make the question sound trite, can you talk about your inspiration for your new works?

A few years ago, I lost my partner, my soulmate of 21 years, and I’m very fortunate to have a close circle of friends and family and my art, but I realized in retrospect what helped me move forward more than anything else, was movement: tango dancing and marital arts and this kind of toolset I’ve been passionate about most of my adult life. More and more I’ve been wondering what passions people use to deal with suffering. I’ve always done Buddhist practice and meditation, and in Buddhism, one of the precepts is that all humans suffer, but they also feel that the human realm is the most auspicious realm to be born in…that it’s through our suffering and challenging and angst that we potentially grow and evolve as humans.

Some of these individuals, Paul Stamets, for example—I’ve been familiar with his mushroom tinctures for a long time, and this past year I saw Fantastic Fungi, and it’s partly a documentary about his life, and it really struck me that his story of how he grew up stuttering, never having any friends, and then one day he went on a mushroom trip. He ate a whole bag of psychedelic mushrooms, climbed a tree and was up in that tree all night and had a complete transformation. He was

You did a residency in a lighthouse on the New York coast last year. Can you describe any impact that might have had on the new stuff?

I don’t know if I’ve actually spent that much time alone in my whole life, and it was just a couple weeks, maybe three at most. It was literally out in the middle of the ocean on a pile of rocks, and I had to climb this steel ladder to get to a dock, then a couple sets of steep stairs. It was just me and my little chihuahua mix, and I saw pods of dolphins and, at one point, two beluga whales came along, plus birds and fish. Having that time alone to contemplate, and to draw reinforced my own path and commitment and dedication.

Drawing brings me so much pleasure and focus, and when I’m drawing, I’m present and very much connected to whoever, whatever I’m drawing. I really realized that drawing was my first love and something I don’t ever want to waver from.

The dreaded pandemic question—have the realities of COVID-19 played any role in how you see your practice?

Through all of it, what was already clear to me, and is now abundantly clear and should be to everyone at this point, is just the importance of community. Being kind to one another. Sharing. Being flexible.

Just being kind. I think initially it didn’t affect me terribly because, as an artist, I work at home and make my own time and spend a lot of time outside, and w’ere fortunate to live in New Mexico, a state of huge open spaces and sunny days, where we can meet friends socially distant in the park or take our dogs for a walk every day. Really, though this pandemic I’ve thought a lot about the elderly shut away in these homes...I think human contact is so important. Likewise, with children, it concerns me little kids haven’t been able to roll around and tussle and play, I think it’s so important to humans.

So I guess It’s made me extra empathetic, but I’ve also seen that a lot in others, too. There’s been this spirit of we’re all in this together, and pretty much all of us know someone who has been sick or died or lonely or suffering depression or financially insecure; we’ve also seen the opposite, the people in our lives who’ve made huge changes with health or spending time with family or building gardens, and I think it’s really clear, as a collective, that we really need each other.

Humans were meant to work together and share together and live together. I’ve seen a lot of that in New Mexico, which is heartening.

MUSIC AN EVENING WITH CHRIS BOTTI Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Grammy Award-winning master trumpeter (and composer) Chris Botti is the nation’s largest selling instrumental artist, now playing for Santa Fe. Cry, you Kenny G stans.

7:30 pm, $60-$120 CANDY BOMBER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Music on the patio! Actual candy is to be determined.

Tip your musicians and your waiters, time are tough.

4-6 pm, free WILLIE GREEN PROJECT Antieau Gallery 134 W. Water Street (505) 983-9529 Art and jazz, jazz and art.

It’s the real deal from NOLA itself.

8 pm, $20-$100

THEATER THE CRADLE WILL ROCK The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Once upon a time, the Feds shut down this singing play for being too pro-union, but nearly a century later, the show still goes on.

7:30 pm, $25-$90 A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Basically a big “let’s make fun of Santa Fe” show. Sensitive Karens need not come.

7 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP IMPROV FUNDAMENTALS Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive, Unit A Beginner’s class open to all.

No experience necessary and no requirements to be funny, so don’t try. Learn the basic skills that are the cornerstone to improv play and performance with simple games and exercises that will ease you into the technique.

10 am-noon, $150

FRI/10 ART A PLACE LIKE NO OTHER: PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE NEW MEXICO BADLANDS Edition One Gallery 728 Canyon Road (505) 570-5385 Examination of the Bisti Badlands, a part of the Navajo Nation in the Northwest portion of the state where unique and strange formations cover the landscape.

All day, free

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THE BOUNDING CIRCLE Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688 Rhythm-oriented paintings from Max Cole, placing the viewer within their own perspectives on the world.

All day, free PASSION, PATHOS, AND THE HUMAN POTENTIAL Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902 New paintings by Erin Currier. honoring human excellence in its myriad forms—in female mariachi musicians, in the powerful words of young poet Amanda Gorman, or the contributions of renowned New Mexico chef Fernando Ruiz. (see 3 Questions, page 20) 5-7 pm, free

EVENTS HOW TO TAME YOUR MIND Santa Fe Community Yoga Center 826 Camino De Monte Rey Unit B-1 meditationinnewmexico.org A weekly meditation series, where you can learn and practice techniques to tame your mind. And given how you guys drive, you really need to be taming your mind.

10 am, $10

FOOD FIESTA FOOD BOOTHS Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Aww yeah, come with empty stomachs and a pocket full of antacids and you’ll have a good time. Will it be a chicharrón burrito, a green chile cheese burger, or fried bread with honey? Roasted corn-on-the-cob, candy apples and cotton candy are calling.

All day, free NATIVE COMMUNITY FOOD DISTRIBUTION Santa Fe Indigenous Center 1420 Cerrillos Road (505) 660-4210 For Native families and individuals. Fresh food and produce, plus diapers for babies while supplies last.

10 am, free

MUSIC FAYUCA Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 A Reggae-rock/Latino group, fronted by founding member, Gabo. Their sound shifts through genres while blending modern-reggae melodies with Latin percussion.

9 pm, $12 MINNESOTA Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Minnesota, aka Christian Bauhofer, will fill Meow Wolf with eerie, danceable, electronic music. 18+.

9 pm-1 am, $17-$22

MUSIC & PLAY Bicentennial Alto Park 1121 Alto St. Live and recorded music, movement, improv games, yoga and sound healing.

4:30-6 pm, $11-$33 TGIF VIRTUAL CONCERT Online fpcsantafe.org/tgiftube/ Tenor John Tiranno and Elizabeth Young on violin and piano.

5:30 pm, free BANDSTAND ON THE PLAZA Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Kickoff to a weekend long music-ish event of dance, mariachi, local bands and everything that makes New Mexico New Mexico.

11 am-5 pm, free

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Composting Workshop on sept 12th

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Aerated Static Pile Composting 8 am – 11:30 am

THEATER THE CRADLE WILL ROCK The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Orson Welles and John Houseman are locked out by the WPA administration, but the show must go on.

7:30 pm, $25-$90 A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Drinks and drama—but that drama is your own business.

This here’s a comedy show.

7 pm, $15-$25

Hosted by:

Worm Composting 12:30 – 2:00 pm Learn to set up and maintain two compost systems from local experts.

Participants will go home with supplies to begin your own compost!

No cost to attend, but registration is required and space is limited.

Priority will be given to Edgewood residents.

Visit www.quiviracoalition.org/compost to register

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Public Listening Sessions Sesiones Públicas de Escucha

CHACO POTTERY TALK Online nmarchaeology.org Join C. Dean Wilson, retired ceramicist expert as he explores Chaco Tradition White Ware pottery types and their influences and with the surrounding Pueblo world.

Noon, free

Attend a public meeting about The New O’Keeffe project in downtown Santa Fe. Asista a una reunión pública sobre el nuevo proyecto de O’Keeffe en el centro de Santa Fe. September 21st = 6:00 PM MDT Santa Fe High School Theater 2100 Yucca St, Santa Fe, NM 87505

DANCE HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail It’s cool. Bring tip money and support Native arts.

3:30-5 pm, free

EVENTS REUNITY RESOURCES FARM TOUR Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196 A tour of local farm focusing in regenerative agriculture.

Noon-2 pm, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET The West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Pottery, jewelry, paintings, photographs and more. North of the water tower.

8 am-2 pm, free

September 28th = 6:00 PM MDT Santa Fe Community College, Jemez Rooms 6401 Richards Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87508 October 5th = 6:00 PM MDT Meeting via Zoom. Link to attend can be found at gokm.org/newmuseum.

Reunión vía Zoom. El enlace para asistir se puede encontrar en gokm.org/newmuseum.

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able to cure himself. He was able to heal and transform his own life, but also help tons of people heal through mycology.

Everybody I’ve portrayed in this show has some similar story like that.

It interests me in my own life, because all humans suffer and everything is impermanent. We’re subject to vulnerabilities and fragilities like losing someone we love, or even a pet. The underlying message is definitely meant to be one that’s uplifting, and one that will hopefully inspire the viewer to see how all these different passions can keep us going.

Questions? ¿Preguntas? rlucero@okeeffemuseum.org or 505.946.1036

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STAND-UP COMEDY NIGHT Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Live, local and in-person.

Featuring Phil Johnson, TJ Jones, Isabel Madley and half a dozen more. Expect drinks and laughs. (see SFR Picks, page 17) 8:30 pm, $5

HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail More traditional Indigenous dancing., something you really ought to check out.

3:30-5 pm, free

EVENTS WALK FOR KIDS' SAKE 5K Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road bbbs-cnm.org Long-walk fundraising event with proceeds going towards supporting youth in the community. If you hate running, just donate.

10 am-noon, free YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. All levels vinyasa flow class.

Bring your own mat.

10 am, free

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Poetry readings included.

10:30 am, $5-$16

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MUSIC ALEX MARYOL BAND Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Muddy Mississippi river blues, gritty indie rock, buttery R&B, and sweat-soaked Chicagostyle blues. All outdoors.

6 pm, $10

THEATER THE CRADLE WILL ROCK The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Historic theater—and indeed it will rock.

2 pm, $25-$90 A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Afterwards you can look at a streetlight and say “hey, that’s Santa Fe.” 2 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION TO WORM COMPOSTING AND AERATED STATIC PILE COMPOSTING Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196 Learn how to compost from the small to medium scale.

Instead of food and agricultural waste going to the dump, learn methods to make compost to use in your farm or garden. Basically, learn to use your land better and maybe feel a little better about yourself.

9 am, free

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HOW CANNABIS LEGALIZATION CAME TO NEW MEXICO Democratic Party of Santa Fe County 1420 Cerrillos Road (505) 467-8514 Join Rep. Andrea Romero to hear about the successful struggle to legalize cannabis in the state, what comes next and delving into the new economic opportunities opening up. A joint event by Santa Fe wards 1D and 2C Masks required. (see SFR picks, page 17) 5:30-7 pm, free

STRATA: A PROLOGUE Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C/1D (505) 780-5403 Oil paintings, large scale drawings, installation, sculptures, photography and mixed media. All day, free

BOOKS/LECTURES ABE STREEP: AUTHOR TALK Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 Streep's book, Brothers on Three, is a coming of age story about a team who unites their community and challenges myths about sports, masculinity and adolescence.

Attend in-store or watch simultaneous on Zoom.

6 pm, free

DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Start your week dancing jitterbug or East Coast swing. $8 for the class at 7 pm and the dance, $3 just for the dance at 8 pm, for those who’ve already got the swing in them. Masks required— bring CDC vax proof.

7 pm, $3-$8

EVENTS YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. Community yoga class.

Noon, $10

FOOD COOKING CLASS: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE STYLE Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511 Learn how to make recipes out of cookbook A Painter's Kitchen, items like arugula salad, corn soup, lemon chicken, fried potatoes and Norwegian apple cake.

10 am-1 pm, $95 COOKING CLASS: RED CHILE WORKSHOP Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511 We love it. It's not even a question. Maybe after this class you’ll start seeing it as the superior chile.

2-4 pm, $84 SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Eggs from the farm? Check.

Root vegetables straight from the ground? Check once more.

Food that tastes like food?

Whoa, we’re asking for a lot now—but here it is.

7 am-1 pm, free

COURTESY CHARLOTTE JACKSON FINE ART

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COOKING CLASS: CHILE AMOR Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511 This is for chile lovers. But also people who are chile curious and everyone on the spectrum in between.

2 pm, $84 SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Ever heard of it?

7 am-1 pm, free

KARLA BONOFF St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. holdmyticket.com Singer-songwriter Karla Bonoff plays her own music, but Bonnie Raitt, Wynonna Judd and Linda Ronstadt also play Bonoff's music. Ever heard of them, you uncultured millennials? Come and see why they love her music and her compositions.

7:30 pm, $29-$44 SANGRE JOVEN Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Multi-award-winning band Sange Joven, a Fiestas favorite, back to The Santa Fe Bandstand! Bring the whole family down. As Fiestas wraps up, get those last minute musical (and fried food) binges in.

4 pm, free SANTA FE SYMPHONY: SEASON OPENER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 983-1414 Works by Anthony Barfield, Charles Gounod, Steve Reich and Astor Piazzolla, with star violinist Alexi Kenney returning to Santa Fe. 4 pm, $22-$80

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THE CRADLE WILL ROCK The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Más theater.

7:30 pm, $25-$90 A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Santa Fe weirdness, but in a theatrical form. Expect audience participation and intense satire.

7 pm, $15-$25

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BOOKS/LECTURES SANDRA CISNEROS: AUTHOR TALK Online collectedworksbookstore.com Martita, I Remember You is Cisneros (The House on Mango Street) at her vintage best.

In conversation with author Carmella Padilla.

6 pm, free

JOHN CRAIGIE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Craigie shines withhis candid and humorous anecdotes, with his music described as "moked-out soul, tender folk and American songbook eloquence." A seated, cocktail table show for 21+.

7:30 pm, $22-$27

“Aeolus” from Max Cole: The Bounding Circle at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art. Opens Sept. 10.

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s we speak, Ayla Bystrom-Williams and her life partner/business partner/brewmaster James Hill are finally able to open outdoor seating at their popular Honeymoon Brewery (907 W Alameda St., Unit B, (505) 303-3139) and taproom in the New Solana Center. After years of toiling, experimenting, brewing, business-ing and parenting, it feels like the enterprise is at long last on the cusp of getting the proper recognition. It’s not like Honeymoon has been unpopular; more like the world is finally catching up.

Bystrom-Williams is as puro Santa Fe as it gets, a community-minded businesswoman and mother who, like so many locals before her, had to leave town to truly understand its appeal. After wrapping high school at Santa Fe Prep, Bystrom-Williams headed east to attend Connecticut College with a full scholarship and her heart set on becoming a documentarian. After school, a family emergency pulled her to Seattle, where a job slicing meat for a co-op deli helped introduce her to kombucha.

“My boss said ‘You should try this stuff,’ and all I know is that I can carry a lot of stress in my stomach, but when I was drinking kombucha, I would have these intensely euphoric moments of relief,” she tells SFR. “In kombucha there are trace elements of caffeine and B vitamins,

and those tend to make you feel more energized.”

The other half of the “we” is Hill, whom Bystrom-Williams started dating in 2013 shortly after she returned home to Santa Fe. Together, they realized that while the kombucha we know from Whole Foods and health food stores has become ubiquitous, nobody, she says, was brewing up a quality alcoholic version as far as she and Hill could tell.

“James was super,” she notes. “He’s got a good brain for brewing, he can dial it in, and he was excited for a challenge.”

By 2014, Bystrom-Williams and Hill would take part in Los Alamos National Labs’ New Mexico Small Business Technical Assistance Program. That ran until 2019 and overlapped with the SFid business accelerator program (an offshoot of Albuquerque’s ABQid accelerator which ran in Santa Fe for just one year), as did the Miller Lite Tap The Future Business Plan Competition, through which Hill and Bystrom-Williams won $200,000.

Meanwhile, Hill was going through what Bystrom-Wiliams calls “a whole lot of trial and error,” in the brewing process.

“Originally, what we thought we were going to make was a lot more like beer,” she explains, “but then something in James’ research brought us to this a-ha moment with the kombucha. I’ll say it’s kind of ridiculous we even thought we were going to make something good at first, but when you’re young and don’t have children yet, brewing things is fun.”

Besides, she says, they knew they were onto something when some of the biggest names in booze sampled the product after the Miller Lite contest win.

“We got to go up to Peter Coors’ office and give him and Coors CEO John Gavin a taste,” she says. “Seeing their genuine interest, we thought there was probably a lot of money to be made in this, but their validation for the product...”

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She trails off, instead describing her and Hill’s spartan youths before waxing philosophical on Honeymoon’s market fit. The taproom opened in 2018, and Bystrom-Williams says that if it hadn’t been for Paper Dosa owner Nellie Tischler pre-ordering thousands of dollars worth of product for her restaurant, the business model embraced by Honeymoon might look very different—as in a taproom only instead of a popular package element.

It’s also a unique product, no question, though there are more hard kombucha companies popping up daily, BystromWilliams says—like the hard seltzer rush of a couple years back, only with so much more room to create a subpar product.

Fizzy booze is fizzy booze, whereas kombucha is the product of SCOBY (that’s symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, btw), a living thing which creates what one might call a sour/pungent flavor. In other words, there’s lots of room for error, but Honeymoon’s use of champagne vats and a process similar to that of Belgian beers (think fruity, almost) makes for something

else entirely. They’ve created numerous varieties since opening in 2018, and if one must liken Honeymoon’s stuff to beer, they can (though it’s gluten-free), but it’s really it’s own thing—tart and weirdly refreshing at 5.5% ABV, plus with those gut benefits Bystrom-Williams discovered in Seattle years ago. That’s at least part of why you’ll find Honeymoon products in Santa Fe and Albuquerque Whole Foods locations.

In-person sales at the taproom remain a big part of the plan, and Honeymoon now boasts a pleasant outdoor seating area in the Solana Center parking lot that was built after the city opened up special permits to local establishments struggling with lower numbers during the pandemic. Honeymoon has also reopened nights from 5-10 pm, Friday-Sunday, though with winter looming and a possible cutoff date of Oct. 31 for outdoor permitting, things could change. Bystrom-Williams doesn’t know what’ll happen next, but says the taproom will require proof of vaccination or a recent negative test from guests who SFP21 - POSTER - FIESTA MELODRAMA - 12 X 18 - .25in Bleed/.5in Slug wish to sit indoors—a trend we’re likely to see more of as the Delta variant spreads.

“I will not run this place based on profit alone,” Bystrom-Williams says. “I’m not SFP21 - POSTER - FIESTA MELODRAMA - 12 X 18 - .25in Bleed/.5in Slug going to let everybody pack in here dangerously, that’s not going to happen.”

Still, with canned cocktails from Silver City’s Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery and a plan to roll out more products alongside live music events when safe, Honeymoon is poised for a serious breakthrough.

“We’re not quite there yet, and I don’t know how it’s going to be long-term, but I’m tired of living in a world where it’s just privileged white men telling me the laws of business,” Bystrom-Williams says. “As much as we have to think about profit, that’s not how this started. It really started with trying to give somebody a drinking experience they haven’t had before.”

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What the Hell is Poetry?

A missive from Santa Fe’s new Poet Laureate

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very poem addresses a pair of implicit questions.

The first is “What is poetry?”

Is it sound? Is it sense? Is it nonsense?

After you’ve spent awhile reflecting on this, the next question is “Poetry?

What is its purpose?”

It can be easier to define a poet than it is to describe or define a poem. A poet is usually someone who has spent a lot of time pondering both questions and come to definitive answers—or someone who never stops asking both questions, never stops revisiting them, never stops finding answers. I think of myself as being the type of poet who relishes a mystery.

I am also, by hook or crook (or dumb luck), Santa Fe’s 2021-2023 Poet Laureate, and I’ve begun the position when national frustration is at a fever-pitch, and truly a time of absurdity.

National leaders could have controlled the coronavirus through commonsense measures, for instance, except for the irony that so many people refuse to get vaccinated. So the ongoing crisis is both pathetic and slightly absurd. It’s a time when the escalating toll of the virus lends an edge to any questions of sickness, death and art. How helpful or relevant—in a time of both absurd and tragic crisis—is versifying?

And so, my pointed title asks, what the hell is poetry? Or its purpose?

Scholars and poets have addressed these questions for centuries.

Congratulations if you have already cultivated an interest that’s led to a firm commitment to a definition of poetry I’m about to list. You’ll find that definition alongside my uncertainties:

for poetry that acknowledges poetic energy and participation are more important than any individual poem.

You probably have a favorite movie. If you think it through, you’ll see cinema itself is a source of pleasure, too, and to a certain extent, when you go to the movies, you’re reliving the basic joy of tales told in sequential motion.

Remember, too, that all poems are failures. How so? It sounds like a pe-

Poetry is song—but speech is also poetry.

Poetry is the ancestral spirit of praise—but I like lots of poems that damn.

Poetry upholds nature—but some good poetry is completely solipsistic.

Poetry is a language construct—but hey, every poem I like somehow moves me emotionally.

Poetry is oral onstage, or literary on the page—but aren’t many poems both?

Poetry as truth-telling, though? I am unconvinced. I call my own poetry anti-racist, anti-colonialist and so forth. Alas, if anti-racism were an intrinsic value, why are there thousands of racist poems that necessitate my stance? Poetry usually has something to do with language. There is, however, sound poetry and asemic writing that doesn’t use coherent words at all.

Call me skeptical of every approach, but I also say I’m impressed by them all—by the intensity or beauty in a particular poem. If I’m listening to a powerful spoken word manifesto and feeling carried away in the rhythms, I believe for a second that “This is real poetry!” Or, if I’m reading some accomplished piece in a difficult verse form, I’m certain “This is authentic poetry!” And I live in a world of passionate commitments that come and go like the spring wind.

There are tricks to my way of thinking. It hinges on a certain regard

My advice to writers is to not worry so much about writing *quote* good *unquote* poetry as they should work at not writing stale poetry.

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culiar notion because the critical mind wants to immediately assert values that select which ones are good, but a more expansive mind acknowledges the following: all poems may not be masterpieces, and all poems fail.

Poetry has accumulated so much baggage surrounding what it should be— or is and isn’t—that the very art form represents an ideal or a dream impossible to fulfill; there is no poem which cannot be called too short, too long, traditional, too experimental, etc.

No poem won’t fail someone’s ideal standard. And no poem won’t fail your own. As writer Ben Lerner explains, “You’re moved to write a poem because of some transcendent impulse to get beyond the human, the historical, the finite. But as soon as you move from that impulse to the actual poem, the song of the infinite is compromised by the finitude of its terms.

So the poem is always a record of failure.”

Taking all of this into consideration, my advice to writers is to not worry so much about writing *quote* good *unquote* poetry as they should work at not writing stale poetry. Stale poetry relies on clichés and crosses genres. It’s the formalist whose sonnets are hackneyed; the spoken word performer whose riffs resemble everybody else’s. I also suggest that, when writers get too knowledgeable—even accomplished—in a given genre, they at least experiment with a style radically different than what is found in their comfort zone. Never stop learning (as the motto goes).

Furthermore, your ability to build bridges and bend genres can enhance your ability to live in today’s multicultural world.

If you travel in the sphere of poetry critics, you’ll find that, regardless their own ideological baggage, they know the etymology of the word poetry is from the Greek, poiesis, which means “making.” That’s all. So what the hell is poetry? It is to make. I believe this is the most useful definition. Its purpose is and always has been to make, whether in pre-history, before written words; during the Renaissance; or in troubled times today. To make is the assertion of the human capacity to create something new.

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There are many ways one can describe director Kay Cannon’s Cinderella, but perhaps it’s best described as an extended version of the most middling Glee episodes. The newly released Amazon original is a loud movie, and rarely are there more than two seconds between bits of dialogue, to the point one might worry about the performer’s oxygen levels. When the actors lip sync, their jaws open so wide you could drive your fist inside.

This is the same ol’ fairytale that, minus any spectacle and mostly stuffed with Gen Z twists: Ella (Camila Cabello) has a dream is to be a girl-power capitalist in a stuffy-traditionalist kingdom that kinda-sorta subjugates women (they only talk about it). Ella starts off as talented, sure of herself and beautiful, and then there’s not anywhere for her to go other than predestined plot beats—she’s the best she can be from the get-go. Cabello’s performance is confident, so confident you’ll question why she doesn’t just jump out the window and go live with forest rats.

Nevertheless, Cinderella’s main purpose is to surprise audiences with whatever pop song

ble to other slasher antagonists like Jason or Michael Myers, DaCosta encourages us to fear and pity Candyman. His more nuanced portrayal represents manifestations of fear, guilt and hatred, and, more specifically, white supremacist fear of Black livelihood.

Here Candyman represents what happens when belligerent rumors and stereotypes leave someone no choice but to become that stereotype.

The film’s messaging is so blatant, however, that viewers might roll their eyes from what one character describes as the “overuse” of the Black experience. Still, that reflects society’s behavior and it’s devastatingly common to see viral videos of racial profiling, violence and police brutality. And some people still don’t believe discrimination exists.

Thankfully, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (of brilliant British series Utopia and Misfits) serves humor worthy of a chef’s kiss and Teyonah Parris (Wandavision) shines as the real standout performer. Pity, then, that frequent flashbacks meant to develop the characters appear jarring rather than intimate.

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In DaCosta’s vision, the plot mirrors the original film wherein folklore legend declares speaking the name “Candyman” five times into a mirror makes the ethereal baddie appear and kill you. In the ’92 version, grad student Helen (Virginia Madsen) skeptically invites the monstrosity into being. But whereas Rose’s film suggests Candyman represents a subconscious reflection of urban fears—an explanation for the violent environment of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project.

In DaCosta’s sequel, struggling artist Anthony McCoy (played beautifully by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) summons Candyman back, bringing with him a new past filled with dimension and showing a different kind of scary compared to Tony Todd’s performance in the ‘92 version. And even though Todd absolutely kills it, the script lacks effective character development. Originally compara-

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Its better moments are when Cabello is offscreen—the veteran performers (namely Pierce Brosnan and Minnie Driver) offer some life-support, but you can’t escape the bland.

The bland suffocates.

The tale of Cinderella is about kindness in the face of oppression, and how we long for a world wherein kindness is rewarded and wickedness punished so long as the good hold out. None of that is here. Instead find a film hyper obsessed with being cool, like giving sophomore theater students at the local high school a few million dollars and telling them to go crazy.

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Week of September 8th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way,” says Aries politician Jerry Brown. Yes! I agree! And that’s especially true for you right now, Aries. To Brown’s advice, I will add this message from Aries fashion designer Vivienne Westwood: “Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight—things that have nothing to do with reason.” Here’s one further suggestion to help you take maximum advantage of cosmic rhythms, courtesy of Aries historian Arnold J. Toynbee: “The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): College student Amelia Hamrick studied the right panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s 15th-century painting The Garden of Earthly Delights. It depicts a hellish scene. Cities are on fire.

Weird beasts devour sinful humans. There are demons and torture chambers. Hamrick did what no one in the history of art had ever done: She transcribed the musical score that the artist had written on a man’s naked hindquarters. Her work inspired a composer to create a recording entitled “500-Year-Old Butt Song from Hell.” In the coming weeks, I invite you to perform feats comparable to Hamrick: 1. Explore the past for useful, overlooked clues. 2. Find or create redemptive transformations out of stressful situations. 3. Have fun telling stories about your past misadventures.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I have become whole and complete, like a thundering cloudburst in summer,” wrote Taurus poet Miklós Radnóti. I love that metaphor for fullness: not an immaculate icon of shiny, sterile perfection, but rather a primal, vigorous force of nature in all of its rumbling glory. I hope you like this symbol as much as I do, and I hope you use it to fuel your creative spirit in the coming weeks. PS: Keep in mind that many indigenous people welcome rainstorms as a source of fertility and growth.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Pandiculation” is a word that refers to when you stretch and yawn at the same time. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you will benefit from doing a lot of pandiculations in the coming days. I also recommend gazing lazily out the window and looking at the sky a lot.

Keep your shoes off as much as possible, get a massage or three, and let yourself sleep more than you customarily do. Did you know that sighing deeply is good for your lungs’ health? Here’s your homework: Dream up all the things you can do to relax and renew yourself. It’s prime time to indulge in generous acts of self-healing.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Born on one of the Galapagos Islands, Diego is a giant tortoise who has lived for over 100 years. He’s a member of the Hood Island species, which had dwindled to a population of 15 by 1977. That’s when he and his tortoise colleague, whose name is E5, became part of a breeding program with 12 female tortoises. E5 was reserved in his behavior, but Diego was a showboat who vocalized loudly as he enjoyed public mating rituals. Together the two males saved their species—producing over 2,000 offspring in subsequent years. According to my astrological analysis, you could be as metaphorically fertile as Diego and E5 in the coming months—even if you prefer to adopt an approach more akin to E5’s.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me,” wrote psychologist Carl Jung. “Or, conversely, I myself am a question that is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise, I am dependent upon the world’s answer.” These are superb meditations for you Sagittarians during the coming weeks. Between now and October 1, I invite you to keep a journal where you write about two subjects: 1.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The ancient Roman author What is the main question that life asks you? 2. What Pliny’s ten-volume Natural History, written in the first is the main question that your life asks the world? century, was a monumental encyclopedia of the natural world, unprecedented in its own time and for centuries afterward. It offered compilations of facts about CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): North Korea’s astronomy, geography, zoology, botany, mineralogy, Capricorn leader Kim Jong-un has an amazing résumé. and many other subjects. There was one big problem Official reports say he learned to drive at age three with it, however. It contained a great deal of erroneous and was an accomplished sailor at nine. As an adult, information. For example, Pliny described in detail he developed the power to control the weather. He’s many non-existent animals, including dragons, flying a skilled musician and artist, as well as a scientist who horses, and giant serpents that swallowed bulls and developed a miracle drug to cure AIDs, Ebola, cancer, snatched birds out of the sky. My reason for telling heart disease, and the common cold. Most impresyou this is to inspire you to be extra discerning in the sively, Kim is an archaeologist who discovered a lair coming weeks. Be especially skeptical of authorities, where magical unicorns live. Is it possible you have experts, and other know-it-alls who are very confident unexpressed powers like these, Capricorn? If so, the despite being inaccurate or erroneous. It’s time for you coming weeks will be a favorable time to identify to increase your trust in your own authority. them and start tapping into their potential. It’s time to develop your dormant talents.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem,” writes Leo poet Mark Doty. That’s great for a poet. But what about for everyone else? My variation on Doty’s comment is this: There are fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a holy revelation or a lyrical breakthrough or a marvelous feeling that changes our lives forever. I expect events like those to come your way at least twice in the immediate future.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Between 37 and 41 BCE, Virgo-born Caligula served as third Emperor of Rome.

To do so, he had to disprove the prophecy of a renowned astrologer, Thrasyllus of Mendes. Years earlier, Thrasyllus had predicted that Caligula, despite being well-connected, “had no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae”—a distance of two miles. Once in power, Caligula arranged to have a series of pontoon boats arrayed across the bay, enabling him to ride his favorite horse Incitatus from one shore to the other across the Bay of Baiae. I foresee the possibility of a comparable turn of events for you, Virgo. Is there a curse you want to undo? A false prophecy you’d like to cancel?

Someone’s low expectation you would love to debunk?

The coming weeks will be a favorable time.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Toni Morrison testified, “I think of beauty as an absolute necessity. I don’t think it’s a privilege or an indulgence.

It’s almost like knowledge, which is to say, it’s what we were born for.” I urge you to adopt her perspective during the next four weeks, Aquarius. In my astrological opinion, a devoted quest for beauty will heal exactly what most needs to be healed in you. It will teach you everything you most need to know.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Poet and translator Anne Carson periodically joins with her husband Robert Currie to teach a workshop called “EgoCircus.” It’s an ironic title, because the subject they teach is the art of collaboration. To develop skills as a collaborator, of course, people must lay aside at least some of their egos’ needs and demands. In accordance with current astrological potentials, I encourage you to stage your own version of EgoCircus in the coming weeks. The time is ripe for you to hone your creative togetherness and synergistic intimacy.

Homework: Tell me the most important lesson you’ve learned since 2021 began.

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Deceased. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of the Notice or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented either to SENAIDA MONTOYA, Personal Representative c/o Daniel Sanchez, Esq., 2304 Middle Court, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 or the Santa Fe County Probate Court.

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ALL OTHER LEGALS STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Case No. D-101-DM-2021-00455 CHARLETTE FORTEZA, Petitioner, vs.

MANSOOR ALI KHAN, Respondent.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF SUIT STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO MANSOOR ALI KHAN. GREETINGS: You are hereby notified that CHARLETTE FORTEZA, the above-named Petitioner, has Filed a civil action against you in the above-entitles Court and cause, the general object thereof being to dissolve the marriage between the Petitioner and yourself, Unless you enter your appearance in this cause within thirty (30) days of the date of the last publication of this Notice, judgment by default may be entered against you.

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