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POP QUIZ 9 Three candidates for Santa Fe mayor answer our city trivia questions to test their knowledge OPEN SPACE SHUFFLE 11 Affordable housing, school and park planned for property behind former Southside radioactive manufacturing facility COVER STORY 12 MONUMENT MEN New work from Hampton Sides on Captain Cook’s third voyage delves into Indigenous character and connects to Southwest experience of conquest

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SCORE: 2 / 5 ALEXIS MARTINEZ JOHNSON They say knowledge is power. But how much knowledge of city basics do the three candidates seeking Santa Fe’s top job have? In our time-honored tradition, SFR quizzed the mayoral candidates on their familiarity with the city they hope to represent.

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I’d say $14.50.

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$365,000

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Well they cannot use violence. And the second one would be any type of misrepresentation of what they’re doing.

Like [panhandling] on behalf of any type of business, or anything of that nature... I’m sure there’s a plethora of answers but from my understanding,

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I’m not aware of any particular form but I think that anybody should be able to submit any type of statement requesting information...I guess you could say that it is just a statement from a citizen requesting a particular subject matter, with their name and date and you know we should keep it as open as possible.

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JOANNE VIGIL COPPLER firefighters. They are all firefighters and report to fires.”]

SCORE: 1 / 5 1.

What is the average hourly wage of a firefighter in Santa Fe?

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What’s the median single family home price in Santa Fe?

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Name two regulations that panhandlers must abide by while asking for help on public property.

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Explain what is required to request a public record.

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What percentage of units must developers dedicate to affordable housing when they build in the city?

A first-term city councilor for District 4, Vigil Coppler has an extensive history in public administration and real estate. She served as treasurer of the Santa Fe County Democratic Party.

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I’m going to guess $21 an hour. [Vigil Coppler says later by text “To be fair, the question regarding firefighter average hourly should include the Fire Chief, Deputy Chiefs, Battalion Chiefs, Captains, Paramedics, EMTs as well as

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I believe it is something like $461,000.

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They have to stay within safe spaces, such as medians and sidewalks. I guess they can’t badger people.

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You have to submit your request in writing to the records division. You have to state exactly what it is you are wanting to retrieve and you have to have no expectation of getting it prior to 15 days.

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We just changed it. I believe 20% now.

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SFR used the current roster to determine the average wage of firefighters is $16.10 based on a 48-hour work week—excluding firefighter paramedics, captains, chiefs, etc. The starting wage is $12.23.

According to the latest report from the Santa Fe Association of Realtors, the median single family home price in the second quarter of 2021 was $600,000 in the city and county combined. (In the city alone, that figure is $495,000. In the county, outside the city, it was $647,000.)

Panhandling in an aggressive manner is prohibited, including touching the solicited person without consent, using profane or abusive language or panhandling in a group of two or more people. Panhandling is prohibited within the median of the street and at one location longer than two hours. For all the rules regulating panhandling see the City Code.

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The state Inspection of Public Records Act calls for a request with a description of the record you would like to inspect, your name, date and contact information.

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According to the Santa Fe Homes Program, 20% of all new developments for sale must be priced affordably for purchasers earning 80% or less of the Area Median Income. For rental properties developers must set aside 15% for affordable rental units. Developers can pay a fee in lieu of building affordable on-site units.

If they’re standing in the medians, they cannot obstruct traffic, or represent a public danger to the traffic that is going by. On the other hand they are protected

by First Amendment rights to freedom of speech, which makes the regulation of panhandling complicated.

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Webber seeks reelection after his first term as Santa Fe’s first fulltime mayor. The co-founder of the business magazine Fast Company also ran for governor in 2014 as a member of the Democratic Party.

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The average hourly wage of a firefighter in Santa Fe is in the neighborhood of $22 an hour.

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I think they keep that statistic, by the county, not by the city, at least that’s the one I see reported in the papers, and I think at the moment we’re in the $560,000 area.

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Wow. Good question. Two regulations that they must abide by? They cannot make physical contact with anyone.

They cannot verbally threaten anyone.

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If you’re going to file an [Inspection of Public Records Act request] with the city, we have a formal process you have to go through...So you have to provide a written request with the specific information you’re seeking under IPRA and your name, we have to tell people who is filing that request.

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Before we talk about a specific number of units, there’s also a fee in lieu of which covers a way for developers to provide money for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, in lieu of the actual affordable units. The percentage that is specified in a development, I believe is 15% at the moment.

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Open Space Shuffle Affordable housing, school and park planned for property behind former Southside radioactive manufacturing facility

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22-acre property on South Meadows Road is on the precipice of being developed into nearly 100 affordable housing units, a charter school and a park.

Santa Fe County owns the parcel which, for years, has been designated as open space. Now, after county commissioners quietly approved a sale last year, local nonprofit Homewise, which specializes in helping lower- and middle-income residents get into homes, is awaiting approval from the city of Santa Fe to take ownership for a little less than $2 million.

But there’s a glaring complication: a structure built by the next-door neighbor with brick walls and a red roof.

The property sits right behind the Eberline plant, a former radioactive manufacturing facility owned by Thermo Fisher Scientific, which shut down operations in 2007. Since then, the state Environment Department found that Thermo Fisher violated several nuclear regulations, including misrepresenting the amount of ra-

dioactive nuclides left in the facility after closure.

As recently as 2016, an 80-gallon drum of radioactive material, secured with Velcro and duct tape, remained in the abandoned building at 5981 Airport Road, SFR reported.

The building was expected to be demolished in October 2020 but, nearly a year later, it’s still standing and the Environment Department has yet to set a firm new date—citing “uncertainties from COVID-19”—and inspectors haven’t finished testing for contaminants, Justin Garoutte, director of strategic initiatives for the department, writes in an email to SFR. An ongoing survey of air, soil and surfaces by a licensed contractor under the oversight of the Environment Department’s Radiation Control Bureau has turned up two sites no larger than about one cubic foot with “slightly elevated levels of naturally occurring radioactive material,” Garoutte says.

Homewise and the county inked the sale agreement earlier this year after the County Commission approved disposal of the South Meadows property in July 2020. Homewise put down a deposit in May but the sale won’t go through until the city of Santa Fe approves the development plans.

The Planning Commission and the City Council must approve Homewise’s plans, which include rezoning requests to allow for housing including single-family homes, townhomes and condos for purchase, as well as 1.67 acres in between the housing units and the school for a park.

The process generally takes six months, according to Lee Logston, a senior planner at the Land Use Department.

Part of the process is an early neighborhood notification meeting, which the city has set for next Wednesday evening.

Joanna Garcia, who lives in a surrounding neighborhood and is the former president of the Tiempos Lindos Homeowners Association, says she’ll attend virtually.

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Joanna Garcia, a resident of the area surrounding Eberline and the South Meadows property, stands with a protest sign on Sept. 12.

She’s concerned that the Homewise development could disturb contaminants left over from the Eberline facility.

“Right now it’s a sleeping dragon,” Garcia says. “Who knows what it’s going to pull up, how toxic it’s going to be, the air, the water, the soil?”

On top of concerns about Eberline, Garcia and Helen Wunnick, a former area resident who advocated for more open spaces for the Southside before moving to Colorado, also take issue with the county’s sale of the property, which for two decades has been an open space that taxpayers funded through a bond.

“The southwest Santa Fe area is underserved,” Wunnick says. “Lots of people in the southwest went to meetings for this land. It was paid for as open space by taxpayers. Now we have a developer who wants easy pickings and sees this land as that.”

In response, county spokeswoman Carmelina Hart writes in an email that the county bought the land in 2001 with the intent of building a community park, but estimated construction costs exceeded the available budget. The city of Santa Fe annexed the area in 2014 and, four years later, top county officials met with Mayor Alan Webber and several city councilors

to offer them the property for the purpose of building a park.

Webber and the others said they were “not interested,” Hart tells SFR. The appraised value of the property is about $1.8 million, and that’s the proposed sale price to Homewise. Proceeds will be used to fund future open space projects in the county, according to Hart.

Mike Loftin, chief executive officer of Homewise, tells SFR that the property’s proximity to Eberline is “definitely a concern because everyone thinks all of that stuff was contained at that building but, you know, it’s approximate so we’ll be doing soil tests and environmental tests to make sure there’s no problems there.”

Loftin says Homewise would inform potential residents of Eberline’s history.

Logston, on the other hand, says “there is no requirement [for the city] to inform residents of an adjacent property’s past uses, nor is there a process for something like that,” adding that Eberline’s history is “a matter of public record and presumably will be again if [SFR] writes about it.”

EARLY NEIGHBORHOOD NOTIFICATION: 5:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 22. Online at santafe.primegov.com/public/portal

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Men New work from Hampton Sides on Captain Cook’s third voyage delves into Indigenous character and connects to Southwest experience of conquest

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ampton Sides relishes the feel of paper. He likes to pore over historical documents, smell ink and read books.

He understands that’s old fashioned and he’s fine with it.

So, his new release published today in the form of an e-book explores undiscovered territory for the Santa Fe-based author in more ways than one: Its depiction of a participant in Captain James Cook’s third voyage is likely also a new story to most readers. The Exotic highlights the tale of a man named Mai who stepped aboard Cook’s vessel from the waters off a Polynesian island and became the first visitor from his region to arrive in England in 1774.

“It’s sort of a sign of the times that we are kind of creating these hybrid publications. I really didn’t even know what you call it. It’s like a miniature book, a nonfiction novella,” Sides tells SFR. “My friend Mark Bryant, who used to be the editor in chief of Outside magazine, my old boss, started this thing called Scribd Originals, which is a very interesting kind of publishing idea of doing these kind of mid-length, small books, digital books and this seemed like the perfect vehicle.”

The e-book also previews a larger project due out next year—a full-length book called The Resolution that centers on Cook’s globe-spanning voyage that returned Mai close to home and led Sides to travel to destinations such as New Zealand, the Arctic and French Polynesia, the latter of which became an extended visit when COVID-19 temporarily marooned him.

Focusing on an Indigenous character in The Exotic gave the author a welcome opportunity to flip the script on classic Cook stories, he says, even if Mai’s own sense of revenge casts him as a flawed character, too. He spoke with SFR ahead of publication, including reflections on his Kit Carson book Blood and Thunder with 15 years in hindsight.

The Sides family has called the city home since 1994 and lives in a neighborhood they describe as “the Harry foothills”—as the ones that rise behind the roadhouse. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

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How did the pandemic affect your plans for researching?

Before the pandemic, I did get to England and I did get to parts of Canada where Cook went and also we spent a month in New Zealand. But I was in French Polynesia when COVID descended upon the world and you know, we thought for a little while that we might not even get out of there, and we kind of welcomed that, thinking this is a nice place to be marooned for a while. But it was very strange because at one point, with some friends, we rented a catamaran

and sailed around the archipelago, and we’d go to these places like Bora Bora and it was just empty. There was no one there.

All the flights had been canceled and all the honeymooners had given up on their plans and so it was like a neutron bomb had gone off or something. It was beautiful and quiet and not a soul was there. It was kind of nice at first but then it started to feel like we were at the end of the earth. We were in this beautiful place but the world was changing before our eyes.

We did get a flight back. Why we ever left that paradise, I really don’t know. But it was a great trip. I had trips planned to Alaska and to the Cook Islands and I was hoping to get to Tasmania and two or three other places and I just had to cancel all the trips and hunker down and just start writing with what I already had...and I still have all this other travel that I am trying to do.

How did the shorter work, The Exotic, come to be?

It’s part adaptation from my book, it’s part travelogue of mine, of traveling in England, New Zealand and French Polynesia and it’s part a reported essay about colonialism and about this one man and his adventures.

Early on, when I started reading about Captain Cook, all of the accounts of his third voyage mention this guy Mai, but he’s kind of a bit player, an also-ran. And I decided, no, this is an amazing story. I want to elevate him. I want to turn him into a major character in the book and then I began to realize that it could stand alone as a separate piece on its own...All of these Cook stories, they invariably focus on the white guys, they focus on Cook himself and his officers. It’s always about white folks encountering Indigenous people and interpreting their culture. It’s never about what the Indigenous people think of white culture so here was an opportunity to kind of flip the perspective and follow this Polynesian as he was thrust into the middle of the empire and try as best we can to see it from his point of view.

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The ultimate objective of Cook’s third voyage was to go over Alaska, or through Alaska and find a waterway, a passageway to the Atlantic Ocean; in other words, the northwest passage. So, no need to worry, there is plenty of ice and there is plenty of Arctic suffering coming down the pike here a little later on in the book. It does start with all this warm water tropical stuff and early on, when I was trying to find a book topic, my wife only half facetiously said to me at one point, ‘You ought to find a book topic that involves research travel to places that I would want to go to with you, you know like instead of North Korea and Siberia and remote places in the Philippines, why don’t we go somewhere nice?’

I thought about it and a couple weeks later, I said, ‘What about Captain Cook?

Where did he go? Tonga, New Zealand, French Polynesia, Hawaii.’ She said, ‘Bingo. that’s what you need to do.’

I decided to focus on Cook’s third voyage because it’s the most American of his three voyages. It happened during the American Revolution, it began in July of 1776 and it was a voyage that

rediscovered Hawaii and it was also a voyage in which he mapped the entire coast of Alaska, looking for this northwest passage. So it just made the most sense, as an American writer, for me to focus on.

Going back to your original question about process. I don’t know if a warm weather story, sort of set in the tropics, if it changes your process...I always love to travel to the places I am writing about, whether they are nice places or not. And I did spend about three weeks in French Polynesia tooling around all over the place doing some research and doing some just soaking it up in a more general way. Having gone there, now that I have been there, I can’t imagine actually having written about it not going there.

You do pick up all kinds of nuances that you just would never get through any guidebooks and travel books or the accounts from Cook’s voyage itself because you just kind of have to feel the environment and those lagoons and all those little nuances of blue and green that you see down there. It is similar to the way I felt about going to the Arctic. I did not have to go but when I did go, it gave me so much more of an understanding of the diversity of ice. There are so many different kinds of ice and sounds that ice makes: sea ice versus ice from rivers and ice from icebergs, all of those kinds of little subtleties are always important to try to get, and I think that is true even when you are writing about the tropics.

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The last couple books you’ve published have been about cold places and cold times—On Desperate Ground, about the end of the Korean War and Kingdom of Ice, on a different Arctic exploration. This new work is mostly focused on warmer climates.

Has that shift affected your language or your process in a perceptible way?

The story of Mai seems like one of those unknown bits of history that should make its way further into our cultural canon. That Pocahontas traveled to Europe in the 1600s and died there is somewhat well known, but the first Polynesian on a ship landing in England more than 100 years later, and a few years before the American Revolution? Do people know that?

ABOVE: “Portrait of Omai” by Joshua Reynolds in 1776 is one of many artistic depictions of the first Polynesian to visit England. BELOW: John Cleveley the Younger painted ships from Captain James Cook’s voyages “‘Resolution’ and ‘Discovery’ at Tahiti,” between 1770 and 1790.

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was taken home on Cook’s third voyage, but it’s always mentioned in passing as if the real story is Cook. And the real story is their encounters.

We live in interesting times now in history and literature and in cinema even. A higher premium is being put on telling the stories of marginalized people, you know, it’s not always about the ‘victors’ or the ‘winners.’ It’s trying to understand other points of view and it’s a big correction that’s going on in society and I think it’s welcome. So I was looking for that. This story desperately needs an Indigenous character who is not just a minor character but an important part of the story.

Really the first half of the voyage, the whole purpose of that voyage is to get Mai home. Just get him home with all this stuff, and drop him off on his home island.

So, really the first half of the book is the story of Mai. And then [Cook] goes on to Hawaii and Alaska and all the other places.

I don’t think it’s a spoiler for people that Cook did not make it home from that third voyage. You touch on the idea that perhaps he suffered from mental illness. What did you learn about that?

I don’t know that anyone knows for sure what he had but there is no doubt about it.

In so many of the accounts from the other officers who wrote about the third voyage, many of them had served with Cook on his first and/or second voyage so they knew Cook well and they could clearly see a change in his personality and he was just unspeakably cruel at times to his own men and to native populations on some of these islands. He applied the lash in ways that maybe were more typical of other English captains. During his first and second voyage, he was really known as a fairly enlightened and solicitous captain who really cared about his crew. And the third voyage, something else is going on. He’s distracted. He’s peremptory, he’s cruel, he

Excerpt: The Exotic Mai was a native of Raiatea, a ragged volcanic island about 130 miles northwest of Tahiti. Raiatea is considered the Ur of Polynesia, the cradle of this extraordinary seafaring culture. It is believed to be one of the first places where ancient navigators, coming from the west, landed several millennia ago and developed their rich civilization, which reached its apogee at Taputapuatea, a complex of marae temples that served more or less as the Vatican City of the South Seas.

Taputapuatea was a sacred pilgrimage spot, the birthplace of Oro, the god of war and fertility. Priests from across Polynesia would hold elaborate ceremonies there, sometimes performing human sacrifices.

Today Raiatea, which means “faraway heaven” in the Tahitian language, still feels like a deeply spiritual place. In 2017 the Taputapuatea ruins were declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, and archaeologists have been working to both study and restore the marae. I visited there in early 2020, hoping to get some sense of Mai’s upbringing. Raiatea, the largest in the Society Islands’ leeward chain, is famous for its vanilla plantations and pearl farming. In the distance to the northwest, the great slab of Bora Bora’s Mount Otemanu hangs above the glossy blue sea. On Raiatea, there is a certain rare flower, the tiare apetahi, that grows only in one specific place, high along the volcanic slopes of Mount Temehani. Mysteriously, all attempts to transplant the flower to other islands, or even to other spots on Raiatea, have failed. The plant observes a definitive and delicate sense of place; it won’t take root anywhere else.

The same could be said for Mai. Raiatea was his home, and though he spent much of his life moving around the islands, and then traveling the world, he was never entirely at peace anywhere SFP21 else.

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Much of the Raiatean population they did not kill the Bora Borans enslaved, including Mai. Somehow he escaped, and fled to Tahiti, where he lived in poverty as a refugee, vowing to return to Raiatea someday to restore his family’s honor and reclaim his property.

In 1767, when the English navigator Samuel Wallis became the first European to land in Tahiti, the teenaged Mai was there to witness the arrival. Wallis declared the tropical paradise King George III Island and claimed it for Great Britain. Predictably, hostilities soon erupted between the English and the Tahitians.

Wallis fired his guns at a promontory overlooking Matavai Bay, raining shrapnel and grapeshot on a crowd of angry onlookers. Mai was one of the many injured. A piece of metal sliced through his side, causing a nasty wound that left a jagged scar; for the rest of his life, his body gave literal testimony to first contact between the British and Tahitians. But the awesome power of the cannons made an equally significant impression on Mai’s imagination, and he began to fantasize that English guns, if he could obtain them, would provide the means to vanquish the Bora Borans and take back his land.

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Cook’s statues have either been vandalized or removed or yanked down in Australia and New Zealand, all over Polynesia...

I guess the other thing that has to be said is that Cook ushered in a world that in many ways devastated these islands and changed forever the lives of these people and the same happened here in the American Southwest to Native American tribes. Modernity came and with it came a lot of disease and a lot of dislocation and a lot of heartache, so there are a lot of similarities along those lines.

is just constantly frustrated. He can’t seem to focus and he’s in pain a lot of the time.

And all of these sort of armchair physicians and armchair psychologists have tried to figure out what it could have been. Was he just getting old? Was he getting tired and jaded as an explorer? He had clearly been through a lot. Or did he have an infection of some sort or a vitamin deficiency sort of thing? They generally ate just atrocious stuff on these voyages and it was not uncommon for them to suffer some kind of vitamin deficiency or get a parasite of some sort. And those are some of the more likely scenarios that have been put out there.

There is just an unbelievable number of Cook nerds out there who study this stuff and obsess over it and before COVID would have annual meetings. And these are some of the theories that have been put forward by some of those folks.

How has the conversation about your 2006 Kit Carson book Blood and Thunder changed in this time you describe where there’s a demand for another perspective?

I don’t know exactly, but that book is a product of its times and of who I was then and I do think there has been, since that book came out, a lot more scholarship about, let’s say the Navajo, written by Navajo scholars.

There has been more attention, just in the culture, paid to really trying to understand the Indigenous point of view. And probably if I were to write that book now, I would have to do a much better job of capturing, let’s say, the Navajo point of view. I don’t know about the conversation, though, has changed that much. The Navajo are major protagonists in my book and I suppose if I wrote it now, it would be even more.

There’s been better scholarship and better anthropology and archaeology work and better collections of the oral history that I would want to use that maybe I didn’t have access to then...I think it’s just a movement that is going on all over the place in academia, it’s happening also in Hollywood,

Statues like this one of Cook in Victoria Square, Christchurch, New Zealand have been removed.

it’s like, you gotta have a diverse writers’ room. You’ve got to have diversity both in front of the camera and behind the camera if you are going to try to tell these complicated historical tales. And I think that is a good thing.

You get described often as a “narrative historian.” Can you unpack what that means?

I prefer to just call myself a historian but when you do that you get into this problem of ‘Well, where do you teach? Where do you profess? Where did you get your PhD? What is your specialty or area of expertise?’ The assumption is that you are an academic and there seems to be,

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How is the story of Captain Cook related to the story of the American Southwest?

On the surface they are not related at all, but many of the same themes are there.

First comes the explorers, who ‘discover’ these places. Well, obviously there were already people there who discovered it a long time ago. The Polynesians were some of the greatest navigators of all time and had populated all of these islands thousands of miles apart.

And then the next wave after the explorer is the various tentacles of colonialism and occupation and conquest. And Cook has been roundly—as I delve into that a little bit in the story—criticized and reassessed much like the Anglo Americans and the conquistadors here in the Southwest.

People like Kit Carson and Coronado and De Vargas are being reassessed—the statues are coming down. The same is true with Cook, all over Polynesia.

Perhaps you could say unfairly, really, because he was an explorer almost entirely.

He was not an occupier, he was not leading an army or a navy. He was not interested in military conquest. He was a scientist in a way, and a mapmaker, but...the first wave of conquest is that exploration, so I suppose there is that same theme in the Southwest with Kit Carson. In some ways, Captain Cook is a very similar character for me to deal with as Kit Carson in that they were viewed as great heroes in their day and for subsequent generations but have come under a lot of attack and criticism, some of it justified, in recent years.

That controversy is something that I kind of had to embrace in this book. I have to try to understand the Polynesian point of view and try to understand why he’s so controversial. They are changing the name of the Cook Islands, for example, and all of

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Monument Men fairly or not, a dividing line between academic history and popular history.

I think it’s a dividing line that doesn’t need to exist, honestly. You can be an academic and still write for a popular general audience and I think there are general interest popular historians who do every bit as good of research, every bit as meticulous as the academics. But anyway, narrative history is a term that has evolved to describe, I guess, the sort of subset of history that I do and that a lot of people do, which is that you are concerned about the story. You are concerned about the narrative—you want it to flow, you want it to have all those attributes that you commonly associate with a good novel in terms of the arc of the story and the development of the characters and using dialog when you can find it in the source material...I think that’s the main difference: a narrative historian is concerned with story and maybe an academic historian is more interested in perhaps developing an argument or a thesis that they prove over the course of their analysis and analytical writing and argumentative writing has its place but it can be deadly dull and it’s not narrative.

How would you react if this history book became a musical?

I think it would be great if there is any hope of it becoming even one one-hundredth as successful as Hamilton, I would welcome it. It would probably be pretty silly.

It would be more like Captain Crunch...

But then I wouldn’t have ever thought Hamilton would have been a musical, so that was a leap for everyone and I’m sure Ron Chernow was quite skeptical of it at first, but it did wonders for his career and he is a very serious historian, one of the best...He goes in deep and he leans toward the academic.

What did we not talk about yet?

Blue lagoons and island vegetation were the setting for some of Sides’ latest research.

The Resolution is a big sprawling story, it may be bigger and longer than Blood and Thunder. It’s going to end up being my longest book just because they went everywhere. They just traveled many, many, many, many thousands of miles and encountered so many places and cultures, from the Arctic to the Antarctic in one voyage. It’s unbelievable….And we didn’t talk about Mai. I’m curious what people, in the end, think of him. He’s kind of a complicated guy. It’s kind of a tragic story in a way.

He is a very likable character in most ways, but he’s got some demons himself dealing with his past and his sense of justice. I don’t know, it’s not like he’s an unvarnished hero or anything like that. Just like Cook, he’s got his own issues.

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9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners will be available to answer your questions about native plants at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden (SFBG) 9:15 – 9:45 AM Docent-Led Tour of the Botanical Garden’s water harvesting and catchment system SFBG 10:00 AM Acoma Sky City Buffalo Elk Dancers performs on Wheelwright Plaza at Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian (WMAI) 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Pick up a coloring page and sign up for a membership with the International Folk Art Market (IFAM) 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM Learn about the Botanical Garden’s role in the Xerces Society’s Santa Fe Pollinator Trail pilot program SFBG 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Artist demonstrations all day with Doug Nava, retablos; Cristina Hernandez Feldewert, tinwork; and Julia Gomez, colcha embroidery at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art (MOSCA) 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Explore the Celebrating Music in New Mexico exhibit on the Wonder on Wheels mobile museum 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Mas Chile Food Truck WMAI 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM Docent-Led Tour of the new Piñon-Juniper Woodland SFBG 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Docent-Led Tour of the Botanical Garden’s water harvesting and catchment system SFBG 11:00 AM Storytelling with Emmett “Shkeme” Garcia (Santa Ana Pueblo) WMAI 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Join Kaitlin Haase of the Xerces Society for a Santa Fe Pollinator Trail Plant Walk SFBG 12:00 PM Acoma Sky City Buffalo Elk Dancers performs on Wheelwright Plaza WMAI 12:00 – 4:00 PM All-ages craft sessions, design and make your own beaded plate in the outdoor classroom at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) 1:00 PM The Earth Turns: Autumnal Equinox Labyrinth Walk, join the Labyrinth Resource Group of Santa Fe for a walk on the Milner Plaza Labyrinth MOIFA 1:00 PM Storytelling with Ehren Kee Natay (Diné/Kewa), a multimedia artist who specializes in music and percussion in front of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) 1:00 PM Storytelling with Emmett “Shkeme” Garcia (Santa Ana Pueblo) WMAI 1:30 PM Nacha Mendez performs original and eclectic pan‑Latin‑style songs on Milner Plaza MOIFA 1:30 – 3:00 PM Talk by nature photographer, botanist, and author George Oxford Miller, followed by a books igning, including his Native Plant Gardening for Birds, Bees & Butterflies SFBG 3:00 PM Storytelling with Ehren Kee Natay (Diné/Kewa), a multimedia artist who specializes in music and percussion MIAC 3:00 – 3:45 PM Docent-Led Tour of the new Piñon-Juniper Woodland SFBG 3:30 PM Nacha Mendez performs original and eclectic pan‑Latin‑style songs on Milner Plaza MOIFA PHOTOS, FROM TOP: Kayuusipaa Artist Group of Colombia. Photo by Daniel Quat Photography, courtesy International Folk Art Market. Photo courtesy IFAM. Storyteller Ehren Kee Natay (Diné/Kewa). Photo courtesy MIAC. Singer Nacha Mendez.

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Fish brings a contemporary flair to the blues, creating a sultry signature style, and her sixth solo album, Kill or Be Kind, from 2019 leaves little to the imagination thanks to blunt, honest songwriting.

Did we mention the legendary Buddy Guy is the headliner here? Yup. Just know that the folks at AMP Concerts require proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test, so plan accordingly—and get ready to feel those low-down, heart-hurtin’, mid-pandemic, what-the-hell-isthe-Mu-variant blues. (LP) Samantha Fish with Buddy Guy: 7:30 pm Sunday, Sept. 19. $28-$33. The Bridge@Santa Fe Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place, (505) 577-6182

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Sometimes life is hard, and you’ve just gotta pull out your wooden sword and dragon decor shield, get a jug of mead or a foil-wrapped turkey leg—and just sit with yourself for a while. If that’s your vibe, you’ll be pleased to know the 12th Annual Santa Fe Renaissance Faire at El Rancho de las Golondrinas is back after that pandemic-spurred hiatus took away all our beloved activities. Yes, that’s right: you can be the master of your very own renaissance.

“We’ve got a little bit of adjustment for COVID, because of budgets and staffing, but the spirit of the festival is the same,” Victor Macias, manager of special events and site rentals, tells SFR. “Jousters, armored combat league, the Fairy Village and the Royal Court—so all the main players are still coming out.”

For the serious Renaissance-ers who’ve seen the most extreme and most tame old-world gatherings out there, Santa Fe’s version has a stronger emphasis on family-friendly vibes. For the adults, the juvenile aspects balance well with the faux combat, mead and beer, food gorging options and the occasional threat

from the passing queen and her entourage. Still, Las Golondrinas isn’t skimping on safety and all volunteers, staffers and vendors will be required to wear masks at all times; plus, the 200-acre grounds at the living history museum means ample social distance. Do please note, folks, that tickets won’t be sold at the door this year.

“We want to control numbers for safety purposes this year, limiting it to about 3,000 per day,” Daniel Goodman, museum director, adds. “Tickets will be scanned, we’ll have increased cleaning schedules, sanitizing stations and the normal safety precautions.”

There’s comfort in the familiar, especially these days. If your poison is shouting cool words and phrases like “good morrow” and “to the stocks,” this will be like therapy to you. (Riley Gardner) 12TH ANNUAL SANTA FE RENAISSANCE FAIRE 10am-5pm Saturday, Sept. 18 and Sunday, Sept. 19 $10-$12 El Rancho de Las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261

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ONGOING ART 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, following the construction, prominence and destruction of the World Trade Center.

All day, free 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.

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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 LAYERS Nuart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888 Group exhibition featuring art

by John Tarahteeff and Claire B. Cotts—two artists who offer contrast between figurative and abstract work, but harmony through their rhythm and richness of color.

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

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

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

All day, free RUNNIN' RUNNIN Vital Spaces Midtown Annex Southwest Annex 1600 St. Michael’s Drive Hernan Gomez Chavez’s exhibition is meant to speak to Mexico’s and the USA’s mutual impact on violence in the ongoing drug war in Mexico, especially for the civilians experiencing it firsthand. To view, email hgomez@artic.edu.

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All day, free SHOELUCCINATIONS: THE SECRET LIFE OF SHOES Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Highway 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450 Untraditional show where shoes are turned into art.

All day, 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.

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WED/15 BOOKS/LECTURES HISTORY AND CULTURE TALKS 35˚ North Coffee 60 E San Francisco St. (505) 983-6138 Coffee with a local historian.

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ENTREFLAMENCO: FALL SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 The leaves are about to change, but you know what doesn’t change? Quality flamenco. We hope.

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ROCK TIME @ THE LIBRARY Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323 Geologists will be on hand to answer your burning questions about rocks.

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ENTREFLAMENCO: FALL SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 We are assuming pumpkin spice tapas aren’t a thing.

6:30 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: FALL FLAMENCO SERIES The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 La Emi’s flamenco banishes the summer heat, ushering in autumn for us all.

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2-STEPPIN' THURSDAYS Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817 Americana and country dance with the Half-Broke Horses 7-10 pm, free (no cover) AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Live piano bar with maestro Rogers, a Fenix legend.

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JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLAIRES La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Old favorites, clever rhythms and new lovable storytelling songs. Bring tip money and support local musicians.

8-10:30 pm, free

THU/16 ART PAINT AND WINE NIGHT Cake's Corner Cafe 228 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 989-1904 Embrace your inner Picasso or elementary school art teacher.

Beer, wine, paint supplies and instruction included.

7 pm, $35

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MUSIC SANTA FREE DISC GOLF Ashbaugh Park 1703 Cerrillos Road Nine hole pop-up course with free lessons and loaner discs.

Email robinmcis@yahoo.com for deets.

5:30 pm, free

THEATER THE CRADLE WILL ROCK The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 A play-in-music, famous for its attacks on corporate greed (and being almost shut down by the US government).

7:30 pm, $25-$90 A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Comedy making fun of the weirdness in our dusty little town. Audience participation should be very much expected.

7 pm, $15-$25

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FRI/17 ART CHRIS MAYNARD Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Intricate designs using feathers and shadowboxes.

10 am-5 pm, free SACRED CREATURES | DOWNFALL GODS Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574 Featured paintings by Fran De Anda and Milka Lolo, two Mexico City artists. De Anda's work is inspired by ancient mythology while Lolo's is inspired by Central American folktales.

All day, free BADASS Patina Gallery 131 W Palace Ave. (505) 986-3432 Renowned Philadelphia automobile photographer, Michael Furman, returns with curated images from his latest passion project, Badass. Along with his images, explore a curation of two dozen rare and impressive cars parked outside the gallery.

4-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES AN EVENING OF PERSONAL STORYTELLING Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 Four storytellers will gather to share their works, ranging from a memoirist, a biographer and a novelist and a wife paying homage to her late husband's work.

6 pm, free FOOD SECURITY, FOOD JUSTICE AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY Online slowfoodsantafe.org Panel discussion led by A-dae Romero-Briones (Cochiti/ Kiowa), director of programs for native agriculture and food systems at First Nations Development Institute (see SFR picks, page 17).

Noon-1 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO: FALL SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Autumnal flamenco, perhaps a decorative gourd or two to go along.

6:30 pm, $25-$40

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Photographer Lisa Law’s temporary Museum of the Sixties on the Plaza has been entertaining visitors most of the summer with personal tours and will remain open for just two more weeks. (76 E San Francisco St., above Overland Sheepskin Co., 10 am-5 pm, Thursday to Monday. Suggested donation: $10; children under 12 free.) Law, a Santa Fe resident, has worked in the documentary genre for more than four decades and her photos have hung in places the likes of the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Your chances to catch her iconic photos is waning, but before she packs it in again, SFR caught her for a few questions. A closing party is planned for Sept. 30 from 5 to 7 pm. (Julie Ann Grimm)

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How did you land on doing a popup museum and how has it gone?

I had done a show at El Museo Cultural five years ago called Flashing on the 60s: A Trip Back to the Garden and it was supposed to be up for three months but they kept it for eight months. It was very popular—8,000 people came to it and the history museum was interviewing me for the Voices of the Counterculture show to get some vocals for the show, you know, you push a button and you hear a recording.

I said, “Don’t you want any of these pictures here?” and she

ID’d 147 that became one-third of the gorgeous show that the state paid for...I brought Wavy Gravy out and I showed my movie and brought the hippie bus and parked it out front. It was really a lot of fun and then I packed it up and put it away. We then had a show and a party at my daughter’s gallery on Canyon Road, Edition One, and Peter Komis, the owner of this building, came to the show...and he loved it and I said “Why don’t we do this at your space that’s empty over the Overland Sheep Co.?”

He said, “I’ll sponsor you”...So my daughter, Pilar, and I signed a contract with him and she and I then spent the next three weeks to clean it and put up the whole show and it’s been up since July 9. An unbelievable amount of people have been here, especially tourists.

What is it about the 60s that is so captivating to people?

This was during the psychedelic era, the war marches, the music—Dylan, Janis and Otis, and Woodstock. I’ve got a whole section on Woodstock. We fed, the Hog Farm from here, fed 200,000 people at Woodstock.

The art was great. Easy Rider was done in that time. I have a whole section on Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper and on Tony Price, the Atomic Artist.

It’s a very exciting time and people miss it and when they come up here and they see it all together, they get goosebumps and they start crying and they want a picture with me. It’s wonderful to be here five hours a week, eight hours a day when people come in.

Do you have a favorite piece in the show?

My picture of Bob Dylan is probably the most well known picture of Bob Dylan now, it was taken in 1966 at the solarium in LA at the castle. It’s being touted as the best picture of Bob Dylan.

And also my picture of Janis Joplin in Truchas. That one is well known.

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LA EMI: FALL FLAMENCO SERIES The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 These are the last days of summer, but La Emi and company are done with the heat. Minus the burning passion of the dance.

8 pm, $20-$50

FOOD COOKING CLASS: NATIVE AMERICAN CUISINE Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511 Blue corn gnocchi arrowheads with guajillo chile sauce, lamb stuffed rellenos, sweet frybread with seasonal berries and prickly pear syrup.

10 am-1 pm, $95

MUSIC ALI RYERSON: WOMEN IN JAZZ SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Ryerson has emerged as one of the most exciting and versatile flutists on the scene today. Yes, flutes are exciting.

Expect classical and jazz and with picks from her two dozens albums.

5 pm, $25-$30 BLUE RHAPSODY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Food, wine and a husband and wife duo with piano and vocals to ease the digestion.

6:30 pm, free MARION CARRILLO WITH DESERT RATT Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196 Las Cruces-based Desert Ratt brings songs of strife and struggles of the working class.

Folk, punk and blues, while Carrillo features a blend of storytelling, humor, social critique and honest reflection.

7-10 pm, $10

THEATER THE CRADLE WILL ROCK The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 From the minds of Orson Welles, John Houseman and Marc Blitzstein—a play in music, super pro-union which we always love. Note the show actually begins in the parking lot for reasons we don’t know. Meta-theater.

7:30 pm, $25-$90 A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 The Fiesta Melodrama, where we can poke fun at local events and politicians and citizen’s complaints on online public forums.

7 pm, $15-$25

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WORKSHOP NOW….MODERN BUDDHIST MEDITATIONS IN SANTA FE: HOW TO TAME YOUR MIND Santa Fe Community Yoga Center 826 Camino de Monte Rey (505) 292-5293 Explore how meditation can be used to connect us with our pure potential and become more and more loving, kinder, confident and peaceful: to become the person we wish to be.

10-11:15 am, $10

SAT/18 ART OPENINGS ARTWALK SEPTEMBER Plaza Rosina 1925 Rosina St. artwalksantafe.com Outdoor arts and crafts market. Plus music and sushi. (see SFR picks, page 17).

4-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES RIVER TALK: HOW TO BECOME A WATERSHED SUPER HERO Frenchy's Field 2001 Agua Fria St. A walking discussion of the tools, perspective and practice of citizen science.

Led by River Source. Email zrisaacson@santafenm.gov to reserve a spot.

9:30-11 am, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO: FALL SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Trust us, the whole show is pretty mesmerizing.

6:30 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: FALL FLAMENCO SERIES The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Warms the body, warms the mind and warms our hearts.

We love it so.

8 pm, $20-$50 HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Indigenous dancing.

3:30-5 pm, free

EVENTS 2021 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY DAY Ragle Park 2530 W. Zia Road santafeindigenouscenter.org Dance, music, art and food.

Noon-4 pm, free BICYCLE POKER RUN Frenchy's Field 2001 Agua Fria St. santaferotarybpr.org Collect poker cards along the River Trail, win prizes.

Cookout lunch included.

9:30 am, $25-$45

BRAKE LIGHT CLINIC Sweeney Elementary School 501 Airport Road Come get your brake light changed for free—that's right, free as can be to minimize fines, anxieties and interactions with police. From Santa Fe Mutual Aid. 10 am, free CACTUS AND SUCCULENT CLUB PLANT SALE Waterwise Gardening 2902 A Rufina St. (505) 946-3507 Expert vendors, offering rare and unusual specimens, indoor and cold hardy plants.

Cultivation tips, soil and garden supplies, topped off with some handcrafted pottery so you can have the cutest little succulent ever.

Masks required.

9 am-4 pm, free COMMUNITY COMING TOGETHER Santa Fe Harley Davidson 4360 Rodeo Road (505) 471-3808 Stories of hope and wellness with special guests, free food, live music and a motorcycle run. Buncha cool stuff for the motorcycle folk.

10 am, free NORTHERN NEW MEXICO FINE ARTS & CRAFTS GUILD JURIED SHOW Cathedral Park 131 Cathedral Place artsandcraftsguild.org For all your gift buying needs, whether for yourself or those around you. Chat with the artists and enjoy an open-airfine-art-buying experience with wood inlay, pottery, painting, fiber arts and more.

10 am-5 pm, free RENAISSANCE FAIRE El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261 Armor, turkey legs, kettle corn, jousting, old historic buildings, trolls and maybe the sparkly unicorn thing. If you’re lucky you’ll get put in the stocks. In other words, the perfect day (see SFR picks, page 17).

10 am-5 pm, $10-$12 ROSE EXHIBITION DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671 From the Santa Fe Rose Society—come see a variety of roses that can actually survive in our good old desert state New Mexico. Maybe you'll get some tips and tricks and see what'll work best in your own funky little desert garden.

9 am, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET The West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Abundant pottery selections, various jewelry choices, paintings in booth after booth, photographs, sculptures and more. North of the water tower.

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Legendary Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin makes his highly anticipated return to Santa Fe with a criticallyacclaimed solo program that includes masterworks by Bach, Beethoven, Scriabin, and Prokofiev.

tickets start at $35: performancesantafe.org I 505 984 8759 PSF is proud to offer a no-risk guarantee for all 2021-2022 ticket purchases.

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VAMANOS: SANTA FE WALKS Arroyo Hondo Open Space Old Agua Fria Road E Another chance to check out the local trails and get outdoors. Includes a nature-based scavenger hunt on easy dirt trails for adults and kids. Come see how many things in nature you can find. Unless you are ultra-competitive, then you’ll just be annoying.

10 am-noon, free

FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Shock your family by coming home with astonishing amounts of potatoes, rip your bags with the weight of godknows-how-many heirloom tomatoes, bring a truck so you can drive home with loads of roasted chile.

7 am-1 pm, free THE GREAT NEW MEXICO CHILE TASTE-OFF Socorro Rodeo & Sports Complex 1 Rodeo Drive (520) 576-8011 You chile freaks willing to take a little drive? The 3rd annual Great New Mexico Chile Taste-Off will be held in person in Socorro. Come taste the widest selection of red and green from around the state.

And yes, you can buy to your heart's content and stock up your pantry for any coming apocolypse.

3-7:30 pm, free

MUSIC FUNKY SOUL NIGHT La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Get funky with DJ Prarie Dog, get weird within socially acceptable levels and come groove. All vinyl—bring the friends, partner and even the (vaccinated) grandparents. For anyone who loves a solid drink and some good music.

8-10 pm, free THOLLEM TRIO AND GLASS KEY TRIO San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974 A night of innovative and creative music from some of New Mexico’s finest improvisors in the Historic San Miguel Chapel. Folk, jazz and even gospel. Music sounds cooler when it’s in old buildings.

7-9:45 pm, $10 WILDERMISS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Indie rock band from Denver with deep synth sounds.

They'll keep going until the van breaks down (again). Free show, but expect to tip and order drinks. They’ll need the tips to get a van that works.

7:30 pm, free

THEATER THE CRADLE WILL ROCK The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Yes, this show has been running a lot. Yes, you are running out of excuses not to see it.

7:30 pm, $25-$90 A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 More melodrama, even though Fiestas are done.

7 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP POETRY UNDER THE PORTAL Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 Free poetry workshop for adults with Elizabeth Jacobson, the former poet laureate of Santa Fe. Good for all levels and the poetry-curious.

2-3 pm, free

SUN/19 BOOKS/LECTURES FREETHINKER'S FORUM Online meetup.com/freethinkersforum A virtual get together celebrating five years of reasoned discussion. Discuss collaboratively chosen topics, listen with open minds, share with open hearts, work together on social activism projects and share supportive community.

Noon, free

DANCE LA EMI: FALL FLAMENCO SERIES The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Listen, we may not get bigname music acts in Santa Fe very often but we do always have big-name flamenco, which is just as important.

8 pm, $20-$50 HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Awesome Indigenous dancing, showcasing awesome talent.

3:30-5 pm, free

EVENTS GFNY SANTA FE Santa Fe Plaza 63 Lincoln Ave. santafe.gfny.com You serious bike riders are nuts. To prove how nuts you are, here’s a chance to race in a 75-mile high-altitude course with 7,150 feet of climbing and a peak elevation, from the open plains to the dense pine of the high mountains.

Happy riding, We probs won’t be there.

7 am-5 pm, free

MUSEUM HILL COMMUNITY DAY Museum Hill 710 Camino Lejo (505) 984-8900 Celebrate the art, culture, history and natural landscape of New Mexico. Live music and a number of activities for the whole family to enjoy.

1-4 pm, free RENAISSANCE FAIRE El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261 Armor, turkey legs, kettle corn, jousting, old historic buildings, trolls, the sparkly unicorn thing. AKA, the perfect day.

Part II (see SFR picks, page 17).

10 am-5 pm, $10-$12 YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. All levels vinyasa flow class, open to the community.

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MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 We don't know if he'll stick to smooth piano jazz or go haywire in that damaged messy hair artist kind of way, but you won't know unless you see him play.

6:30 pm, free SAMANTHA FISH The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place (505) 557-6182 Contemporary blues guitar and badass ballads. Masks and proof of vaccination required (see SFR picks, page 17).

7:30 pm, $28-$33 THEO KUTSKO Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196 Hear Kutsko on piano, featuring songs from the ‘70s and the ‘80s and from Broadway, as is expected. Plus, brunch at Rose’s Kitchen on the farm.

7-10 pm, $10

THEATER THE CRADLE WILL ROCK The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath—oh, dang, wrong show. Anyways, check this out.

2 pm, $25-$90 A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 This has been a tradition since 1919, since the days of ragtime and early jazz. And you’re gonna miss out on this just because you “aren’t in the mood?“ Stop being weak.

2 pm, $15-$25

“Sparkling Sun Angel” by Chris Maynard from the show New Works at Gerald Peters Gallery.

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LEAVE THE LEAVES Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-3373 Did you know that leaving fallen leaves helps build soil and provides habitat for diverse insect communities?

We want happy bugs or they will devour us. Learn more about the benefits of leaving the leaves and see how the Railyard Park practices this healthy soil principle. We all hate raking up leaves anyways.

10 am-noon, free SELF-DEFENSE CLASS Santa Fe Girls' School 310 W. Zia Road resolvenm.org Self-defense class for survivors of violence or crime at no cost.

Open to all genders age 13 and up. Pre-registration and vaccination required.

Noon-4 pm, $50-$75

DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Where piano notes mix metaphorically into the wine and let you soothe into musical joy. Is it musical therapy, or is it Doug Montgomery?

6:30 pm, free

MON/20 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

SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Fresh produce on a Tuesday?!

Society is certainly falling to bits, next thing you know will want fresh food all week. Bah! 7 am-1 pm, free SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET DEL SUR Presbyterian Health Park 4801 Beckner Road (505) 983-7726 Did you know if you buy lettuce on the Southside it lasts longer? We should all go and check it out to see if it’s true.

3-6 pm, free

TUE/21 EVENTS YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. More yoga, more joints popping, more joy. Bring your own yoga mat and prepare to feel beautiful stretches in all the right spots (and the wrong spots maybe too).

Noon, $10

MUSIC MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Grammy-nominated Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin is celebrated worldwide for his unrivaled renditions of the great classical works of the established repertoire.

7:30 pm, $35 JSMN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Detroit's JSMN has a reputation for unforgettable live performances as one of the industry’s most soughtafter producers, working with such big names as Kendrick Lamar, Game and Mac Miller.

7-11 pm, $16-$19

FOOD 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 in between. In this class, participants will learn how to deal with both red and green chile sauces. And we know a lot of you guys need to know how to do chile right.

2 pm, $84

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sushi plates at Chomp Food Hall (505 Cerrillos Road, (505) 772-0946), Buffalo Thunder Casino (20 Buffalo Thunder Trail, (505) 455-5555) and the Eldorado (7 Avenida Vista Grande, (505) 466-2608) and Pojoaque Supermarkets (9 W Gutierrez, (505) 455-2178) under the name Ocean Real Sushi.

OK, so maybe Golden Land is really more of a wholesale business that’s pushing into brick and mortar. We can work with that. Those kinds of businesses need our support. Even still, there are a few more hurdles. For one, there are a lot of menu options, all of which feel a little too different from one another for a cohesive experience. Some menu pages are taped onto the window outside, one is behind the counter; there are the numerous signs laying on the floor of the dining area displaying various bowls with more handwriting that designates prices. Add to that the very long and somehow still different online menu, and you might wind up feeling a little anxious when choosing between noodle bowls, teriyaki bowls, sushi plates and ramen; breakfast burritos, quesadillas and fajitas; poke, dim sum and more—but again, when every sign differs, customers

Golden Land Café on St. Mike’s has a long way to go, but here’s hoping

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t’s easy to think the marker-drawn “open” sign at Golden Land Café (720 St. Michael’s Dr, Unit E, (505) 467-8837) could have been put up by mistake. After loitering a few seconds at the front door trying to figure out the place’s operational status, you might even drum up the courage to enter, but it’s just as perplexing on the inside: Olympics re-runs on a massive wall-mounted television, half a dozen signage pieces propped up against the walls and half-empty boxes strewn around. No other customers are in, though there’s evidence of past patrons, namely, empty and abandoned coffee cups. Maybe this is just a new kind of strip-mall appeal?

“We’ve only been open a month,” says the gentleman behind the counter, and then, as if to reassure me, he adds, “But this is actually our fourth location.”

I figure he says this to impress me, as if to make up for the less-than-appealing surroundings, but it turns out this is real and you can get Golden Land Café

more accurately might end up not knowing what’s available and what isn’t.

We’ll start with the golden teriyaki bowl with dark-meat chicken ($10.99).

The meat vacillates between fine and what feels like chewing on pure fat, and the accompanying mix of broccoli, onion and red and yellow peppers is undercooked and void of seasoning.

It’s rare to take note of how veggies get cut, but with long strings of onions and peppers that look as if they’ve been cut by a dull blade wielded by someone who just kind of gave up midway, this time it’s notable.

The white rice in the bowl is clumpy, too, and the teriyaki, while decent, might be good in that artificial pumped-full-of-sugar-for-along-shelf-life way. If there is thought put into the dish, it didn’t transfer, and “a bowl of stuff” is really the best way to describe it—a food medley that might be good together in theory and has been before, just not this time.

Golden Land Café’s marina plate might not be a blowout, but it does look cute.

ABOVE: A chicken teriyaki bowl that might be more accurately described as “a bowl of stuff.”

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The sushi, however, fares better. We live in a desert town full of diners who regularly bemoan the lack of good seafood (which is absurd, frankly, since all fish served everywhere was frozen on a boat before it ever came to land)—and it can be hard to get motivated to search out the stuff after a while. Don’t forget, though, that veggie sushi can be fresh and refreshing. Sure, you should know Golden Land isn’t fine dining before going in, but the vegetarian roll ($9.99) with carrot, avocado, green bean or baby corn is decent. And you know what else? It holds together. I think sushi people like it when a roll does that. For those who prefer fish, Golden Land’s spicy tuna roll ($9.99), has a much more complex flavor profile but with a fairly weak kick that sadly dissipates in about ten seconds, max—though the umami flavor really impresses afterwards.

Lastly, my companion samples a collection of tuna, yellowtail, shrimp and salmon both smoked and fresh. Known as the marina plate ($10.99), they describe it as “pretty alright” with a shoulder shrug, though they are quite picky, so I ultimately consider this a win for Golden Land Café. Nevertheless, its too-broad menu and janky environs leave a lot to be desired. Little places like Golden Land have proven capable of astonishing turnarounds. Santa Fe, in fact, is littered with joints that started out only OK and circled back around to brilliant. And while it’s tough to be critical of new restaurants just starting out—especially given this economy and labor market—just know the potential is definitely there for Golden Land, maybe just wait a couple months.

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Musician Mozart Gabriel lands at home during the pandemic after globetrotting inspiration strikes pop-punk gold

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ello, my name really is Mozart,” says songwriter Mozart Gabriel—son of designer Patricia Michaels and artist Tony Abeyta, but I’m only gonna mention that part once.

Gabriel (Navajo and Taos Pueblo) is back in New Mexico for a brief stint after COVID-19 forced him to leave Barcelona, Spain, where he’d been attending the BAU Design College of Barcelona over the past two years. He’s contracted COVID-19 twice in recent months (once post-vax), and is considering this time at home to be a bit of a breather. Gabriel was born in Santa Fe, raised in Taos and moved with his family to Venice, Italy, New York and Boston as a kid. He studied film and animation in Vancouver and art in Chicago, then moved to Nashville to make music videos and write songs. In 2018, he moved to Barcelona, which he now considers to be a de facto home base. There, he says, he feels most at home and most creative.

“I was going through a lot of drinking—I’ve been sober now for about a

year and nine months—and it was starting to feel very difficult being a Native American in the US and having to constantly explain who I am,” he tells SFR. “When I got to Barcelona, nobody gave a shit. I got to really know who I was, I got to just accept and love myself, and that made it easier for me to be sober, to come back to my family.”

Even when he was studying to become a filmmaker and stop-motion animator, Gabriel had always been a bedroom guitar player and full-time music appreciator. But after attending an open mic event in Barcelona at which a buddy urged him to play one of his own songs, something clicked.

“I played the song ‘Hold Back,’ which is on my [upcoming] album, and the minute I sang that song, I was nervous, but it’s about me not holding back and the things that have prevented me from doing the things I want to do,” Gabriel says.

“I’d never played music in front of people before, but everyone really liked it and there was this crazy instant gratification.

Everybody gathered around and told me, ‘I want to play with you.’”

For the last year, I’ve been able to write sober and happy, though I was terrified.

Am I dependent on depression?

Heartbreak? Alcohol?

You’re not going to understand if you don’t release it to people.

-Mozart Gabriel

Seduced by sweet lady pop-punk, Gabriel would form what he calls a rock band (though his pop and punk influence are on full display) with fellow expatriates from Venezuela, New Zealand and the UK. He’d play at open mics almost nightly for the next year, writing songs in the mornings with bandmates, trying out material live and, “living and breathing music as much as we could.”

“The more I got to be vulnerable,” Gabriel explains, “the less I felt alone.”

Something about the music soothed him, he says, and helped form a more cohesive sense of self.

“When you’re growing up on a rez, you have a hard time,” he says. “I had a hard time, anyway, finding my identity.”

That discovery, Gabriel explains, helped him implement traditional vocal techniques into his more contemporary sound.

The beats of his childhood powwows and gatherings play a part, too. He was always about pop—Enrique Iglesias, Pixies and Joan Jett, for example—but something about the driving rhythms and intense vocalizations of tribal music translates well to rock, he says.

“Take the Maori and their Haka,” he says. “The energy that’s inside you is thrown out, and that’s what I do with my punk.”

Said punk has already started trickling out, with the song “Operate” officially released. Oh, it’s late-’90s punk/emo, alright, with a driving bassline, chugging riffs and Gabriel wailing loud and proud.

Unexpected, however, is a wah’d-out solo that feels more straightforward rock.

Simple but powerful vocal harmonies seal the deal. It’s kind of like if Machine Gun Kelly weren’t the twee watered-down ghost of emotional lyricism wrapped in a fashion punk guise—Gabriel achieves a stripped down rock authenticity that can only come from, as he puts it, “living life.”

With the rest of the album Eager Within the fire dropping in November, Gabriel has his eyes set on a return to Nashville and now seems endearingly impatient. Getting these songs out is an important milestone for his personal growth, but also the culmination of years of work, self-doubt and, ultimately, hopefully, redemption.

“For the last year, I’ve been able to write sober and happy, though I was terrified,” he says of the forthcoming fulllength. “Am I dependent on depression?

Heartbreak? Alcohol? You’re not going to understand if you don’t release it to people. It’s exposure. It’s vulnerability. It’s the funny thing about being Native in punk— look at the influences, like the mohawk, and standing up to government. You want to know where that all started? Right here in the homeland.”

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The Voyeurs is a dark, brooding film—dark because the lighting is pretty bad, brooding for the sole purpose of...brooding.

Pippa (Sydney Sweeney) and her boyfriend Thomas (Justice Smith) are over the moon about their awful loft apartment in downtown Montreal.

As they settle in, the bright lights of the apartment opposite their unit capture their attention, and the couple discovers the sex life of their neighbors on display. These neighbors curiously never bother to close their curtains even though they bloody well have them. And so, of course, curiosity blooms into obsession for Pippa and Thomas and, like any good obsessed-with-my-neighbor film, the obsession turns down a dark, disturbing path—again, dark because you have to strain your eyes to see.

As an erotic thriller, The Voyeurs is rarely either erotic or thrilling. Director Michael Mohan cited similar features like Rear Window and Body Double as inspirations for his directorial debut (Mohan also penned the script), a pretty obvious

SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS

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Tradition meets contemporary culture in Marvel’s latest film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

With a majority Asian cast, and a long-ass title, the movie more than delivers in its fight sequences, story, comedy and regard for Chinese mythology.

Though one of the few movies currently available only in theaters, it’s already earned $71.4 million nationally in its opening weekend—impressive for a Marvel movie that didn’t receive much promotion compared to its previous films.

Set in urban sprawls, high-rises and jaw-dropping rural landscapes, the movie begins with the family history and childhood of our main character, Shang-Chi, (Simu Liu), who is initially called Shaun—one of the many accurate jokes within the movie about the Americanization of Asian cultures.

As an adult, Shang-Chi is forced to confront his complicated relationship with his father and accept his destiny as ruler of the Ten Rings, ancient objects which aren’t exactly explained but just understood to give the wearer incredible power and immortality.

Joining Shang-Chi on his adventure is best friend Katy played by Awkwafina who, with this excellent performance, cements herself as a box-office star worthy of a long future in Hollywood.

Taking place sometime after Avengers: Endgame, it’s worth noting audiences can still enjoy Shang-Chi even if they don’t follow the Marvel timeline—I mean, who can? Deep fans will also recognize familiar characters who hint at what relationship Shang-Chi might play in relation to future Marvel plots and characters. But this film really holds its own as an origin story. Here, director Destin Daniel Cretton really invests a lot into the history of Shang28

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statement if you’ve seen those movies. Mohan’s dedication to this tribute means The Voyeurs is not as bad as it could be, though that’s really more about Hitchcock and DePalma being masterful than it is about Mohan paying homage.

Smith, bless him, does his best to be charismatic here, while Sweeney forces every line, giggle and breath as if to tell us “I went to acting school!” She’s woefully miscast and far too genteel in her vocals and expressions to make Pippa worth watching for two hours.

Even so, an unexpected twist in the third act holds up well, at least until you spend a few minutes thinking about it. It’s a reminder Mohan’s film wavers between serious and campy without ever

Chi’s family and childhood, which makes the movie feel so rich. It doesn’t reduce him to just another character thrown into the Marvel universe. Instead, after watching the film, audiences may wonder if Shang-Chi even needs Marvel. (Liane Pippin) Violet Crown, PG-13, 132 min

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“How do you do, fellow TikTokers?”

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 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 comes next, jumping from Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” to some dull Ed Sheeren number and an inexplicably horrid finale featuring Jennifer Lopez’s “Let’s Get Loud.” Its better moments are when

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meaningfully claiming either territory. Instead, it promotes itself as super-serious when the screenplay pulls the shooting style in another direction.

Mercifully, nothing here is a matter of being outright bad, but more of a collection of misguided directorial decisions. If there’s one silver lining to The Voyeurs, it’s that it’ll inspire you to turn those other movies on instead, Jimmy Stewart and all.

Cabello is off-screen—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.

Is Cinderella the cinematic blight the internet was so certain was coming? No, but even the most mundane versions have done it a lot better. (RG) Amazon Prime, PG, 113 min

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This weekend, horror film Candyman earned over $20 million, making it the first profitable theater-only release in a post-pandemic world and earning writer/director Nia DaCosta the title of first Black female director with a No. 1 movie in its opening weekend—and she’s only 31.

DeCosta’s sequel to the 1992 Bernard Rose flick of the same name feels like a reboot largely due to its character improvements and assistance from writers and producers Jordan Peele (Get Out) and Win Rosenfeld (BlackKkKlansman).

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

THE VOYEURS Directed by Mohan With Sweeney, Smith and Ben Hardy Amazon Prime, 116 min

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 comparable 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. Yes, the slasher persona in this new iteration diminishes, but like Peele’s previous works, horror sometimes works better when the truth stands bare. (LP) Violet Crown, R, 91 min.

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ASTROLOGY

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Week of September 15th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you,” wrote author Carlos Zafòn Ruiz. Let’s take that a step further: “Other people are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.” And even further. “The whole world is a mirror: You only see in it what you already have inside you.” Have fun playing with these meditations, Aries. The coming weeks will be a fertile time to explore how thoroughly your experiences reflect the activity transpiring in your own brain.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “If I’m a bitch and a fake. Is there nobody who will love a bitch and a fake?” Libra author Graham Greene wrote that in his novel The End of the Affair. Here’s my extrapolation: I believe that every one of us, including me, is a bitch and a fake now and then. We all go through periods when we are not at our best, when we fail to live up to our own high standards. Is it possible that you have recently flirted with such a phase? If so, the cosmos has authorized me to absolve you. You are free you to reclaim your full exquisite beauty. And if you haven’t been a bitch and a fake, congratulations. It means you have weathered a gnarly storm.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some spiritual teachers say things like “I am not my body” or “This body is not me.” I don’t understand that. It’s an insult and disparagement. It’s dismissive of our bodies’ sublime beauty and our bodies’ inspired role in educating our souls. I agree that we are not ONLY our bodies. I agree that a part of us is eternal, not confined to flesh and blood.

But hell yes, I am my body. You are your body. It’s a glorious aspect of who we are. It’s a miraculous creation that has taken millions of years to evolve into the masterpiece it is. So yes, you are your body, and yes, this body is you. I hope you love your body. Are in awe of it. Are pleased to be inside it. If anything is lacking in this department, now is an excellent time to make corrections.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens,” wrote poet Mary Oliver. I’d love for you Geminis to have that experience. The astrological omens suggest it’s more likely than usual to occur sometime soon. Other experiences with a better-than-average chance of unfolding in the coming days: allies who speak of intimate subjects in ways that resemble a flower opening; partners who co-create with you in ways that resemble a flower opening; spiritual helpers who offer guidance and help in ways that resemble a flower opening.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I lie to myself all the time, but I never believe me,” writes Cancerian author S. E. Hinton. Ha! As a Cancerian myself, I confess to the same crime. But I am looking forward to a shift in the coming weeks. I suspect we Crabs will be inspired to cut way back on the fibs we try to get away with.

You know what that means, right? We’ll be more inclined to trust ourselves, since we’ll be more likely to tell ourselves the truth. Our decisions will be shrewd, and our self-care will be rigorous. Hallelujah!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): My object in this horoscope is to stimulate your imagination in ways nobody else in your life will. You need an influence like me, from outside your inner circle, to administer friendly, playful shocks to jolt you out of habitual ways of thinking.

Here we go. 1. If you were to stow seven parts of your soul in seven objects, what objects would they be? 2.

If you could change one thing about your past, what would it be? 3. If you were a character in a fairy tale or a movie, who would you be? 4. If you could travel to a place that would teach you what you most need to know, where would it be? 5. If you had a magical animal as your special ally, what animal would it be? 6. If you could sing a song with uncanny healing power for someone you care about, what song would it be? 7. If you could improve your relationship with some part of your body, what would it be?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “There’s nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over,” writes Virgo author Gail Carson Levine. Adding to that encouragement, I offer you the following authorizations: There’s nothing wrong with seeking a pleasure you love over and over; or doing a necessary task you love over and over; or performing an energizing ritual you love over and over; or expressing key truths you love over and over. And these permissions will be especially crucial for you to exult in during the coming weeks, dear Virgo: because it’s a time when mindful repetition will be one of your strengths and a key to stimulating the deepening experiences you need.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Yves Olade writes, “I’ve started thinking of people as wounds that don’t heal.” To me, that idea is idiotically cynical. Moreover, I think it’s wrong for most of us. The truth is, humans have a natural instinct for healing. They are predisposed to attract experiences that might aid their recovery from difficulties—that might teach them the healing lessons they need. I believe this will be especially true for you in the coming weeks. (PS: Dr. Andrew Weil writes, “Any level of biological organization that we examine, from DNA up to the most complex body systems, shows the capacity for self-diagnosis, for removal of damaged structure, and for regeneration of new structure.”)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Research suggests that most people think everyone else has more fun than they do. But I’m guessing that only a small percentage of Sagittarians feel that way. You tend to be extra alert for fun, and you have intuitive skill at tracking down fun. In addition, you often take the initiative to precipitate fun. You understand you have a responsibility to generate fun, and you have a talent for generating it. All these capacities will serve you well in the coming weeks. I recommend you raise your mastery of the art and science of having fun to a new level. Be the Champion of Fun and Games for your entire circle.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’m not engaging in empty flattery when I say that you are unlike anyone else who has ever lived in the history of the world.

Your absolute uniqueness is a fundamental fact.

Maybe you don’t reflect on this truth very often.

Perhaps you feel that it’s not helpful to think about or that it’s irrelevant to your daily decision-making.

But I propose that in the next three weeks, you give it a central place in your understanding of your destiny. Allow it to influence everything you do.

Make it a major factor in your decision-making.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Welcome back from the underworld, Aquarius. I hope your time wandering through the maze-like twilight brought you as many fascinating mysteries as confusing questions. I trust you took advantage of the smoky riddles and arresting dilemmas to fortify your soul’s wisdom. I suspect that although your travels may have at times seemed hard to fathom, they have provided you with a superb education that will serve you well in the immediate future.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, the lead character says to a friend, “You filled me with a wild desire to know everything about life.” Is there a person who might inspire you like that, Pisces? Maybe a person from your past with whom you’ve fallen out of touch? Or is there a person hovering on the outskirts of your life who could stimulate you to have such feelings? Now is a favorable time to seek these influences. I advise you to be bold in your quest to associate with allies who will stimulate your lust for life and teach you crucial lessons. (PS: For extra credit, make abundant use of another theme from Wilde’s book: “The search for beauty is the real secret of life.”)

Homework: TTell me why you HAD to do the thing that some people question or misunderstand.

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