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OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 MOVING TARGET 8 Would-be Siler Yard tenants stressed as move-in date keeps changing BETTER WALK TO SCHOOL 9 Santa Fe officials looking at cost for dedicated trail for students from Cottonwood Village to El Camino Real EPA COULD LEARN FROM NM ON METHANE 10 As the feds push toward new restrictions on oil and gas operators, New Mexico provides a model and illuminates challenges COVER STORY 12 YOU DOWN WITH OCC? Members of Outstanding Citizens Collective hiphop crew reflect on how it started and how it’s going

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Recently there was a fatal accident on a film production set in New Mexico. A talented woman with a young son died, many were hurt and a lot of people will have to live with this memory for the rest of their life.

People will now point fingers, lawyers will litigate, officials will investigate, producers will deny and insurance companies will side-step culpability.

The truth will only come with first acknowledging the problem. We are all responsible.

Crew members must not tolerate unsafe conditions. Producers must acknowledge the fact that a large part of their motivation is to make money. We must never represent ourselves as knowing more than we actually do.

This accident was a tragedy.

Making a film is a risky occupation. The hours are long, the equipment and activity are dangerous and safety protocols are often overlooked. It is of fundamental importance that all participants are adequately trained and that younger personnel have been properly mentored by seasoned and experienced professionals. There must be an acknowledgement of safety on a movie set regardless of monetary or time limit restraints.

We must adequately train production employees. We must take our work seriously.

We must create the fantasy of a scripted story with zero-tolerance for ignoring safety protocols.

There is no room for complacency. If this is not done, our state will no longer be known as a place to make movies. The solution will necessitate us all working together…..the Film Office, the studios, the producers, the unions, the training programs and the state of New Mexico.

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Clouds of smoke surround Santa Fe, and air quality alerts blow up your phone. The past wildfire season was one of the worst wildfire seasons in history in 2020. Last summer, 109,513 acres burned in New Mexico, destroying homes and lives in their wake. Fires are burning for weeks, severe drought is making it easier for more fires to ignite, and we can’t catch our breath in between.

Environment New Mexico/PIRG’s Trouble in the Air report found that Santa Fe experienced 77 bad air days in 2020. Compounding the existing air quality problems are extreme drought and extended wildfire seasons, which add fine particulate pollution. In September, we experienced record high pollution levels that the EPA described as Beyond the Air Quality Index.

While we experience unprecedented wildfires in New Mexico, we breathe in massive amounts of health-harming soot.

While we can’t prevent the next wildfire, we can cut pollution by electrifying our buildings, equipment and transportation, and transitioning to clean renewable energy. The transition to electric cars and clean energy sources can help us and future generations enjoy healthier lives.

Our leaders need to act swiftly to eliminate pollution. When they do, we’ll all breathe easier.

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NEW MEXICO COULD RECEIVE $3.7 BILLION THANKS TO INFRASTRUCTURE BILL As no New Mexican has ever driven on a smooth road even once, this is exciting.

LOCAL TENNIS COURTS COULD GET FACELIFT, TOO Maybe we should change the state motto to “Smooth As Fuck.”

COST OF TURKEYS RISING AHEAD OF THANKSGIVING Also, stuffing, aka wet bread, is weird.

COVID-19 CASES RISING, TOO No matter what Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers tells you.

IT’S NAVY WEEK IN SANTA FE All the more impressive since boats and ships travel incredibly slow by arid high desert.

FORMER GOV. BILL RICHARDSON WENT TO MYANMAR FOR SOME REASON Just another day as a jet-setting diplomat meeting with leaders of the junta.

NAVAJO NATION PRESIDENT BANS INDOOR SMOKING— INCLUDING AT CASINOS Think of it as a good reason to stretch your legs between hitting up those loose slots... well, think of it as a reason.

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As I write this, New Mexico once again is battling a surge of A Letter from COVID-19 cases, alarmingly Julia Goldberg high hospitalization rates As I traveled back to New and a new vaccination effort Mexico in February of 2020, for children 5-11. As has I looked around the Atlanta been the case since Day 1, my airport and noticed an uninbox pings with messages usual number of travelers from readers, seeking donning face masks. I had information, clarification just begun reading about and often supplying detailed the SARS-CoV-2 virus and, and incisive questions I looking around, suddenly felt incorporate into my weekly like a hapless extra in the film queries to state health officials.

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Would-be Siler Yard tenants stressed as move-in date keeps changing

A rendering of what the Siler Yard project should look like once construction is complete.

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e’ve been told numerous times that the place is ours, but at the same time, we’re also told they’re still processing things,” says Natalie Fragola, a would-be tenant of the to-be-completed Siler Yards Arts + Creativity Center.

“Now I know it’s not 100% certain until we’ve got the keys in our hands. We are totally screwed.”

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by New Mexico Inter-Faith Housing has been under construction since June 2020 on roughly 5 acres of land on Siler Road donated by the city. It has faced move-in delays before, but now faces yet another delay that hopeful tenants tell SFR has been emotionally and financially unacceptable.

The project aims to serve as living/working/communal space for income-qualified artists. With rents ranging from $410 to $1,139 with all utilities included—well under Santa Fe’s market value—demand has been high, and prospective tenants faced stringent qualification and application processes. According to Inter-Faith Executive Director Daniel Werwath, the four buildings that comprise the first phase of the complex were set to open in staggered fashion

by August.

But COVID-19’s supply line issues, materials shortages and state lockdowns made the deadline impossible to meet, he says.

Even so, on Oct. 5, Fragola and numerous other ostensibly approved tenants received emails from Monarch Properties, which manages the apartments, advising them to put in a 30-day notice with their current landlords by # 8

Oct. 15 for a Nov. 15 move-in date.

Many, including Fragola, did just that.

But, by Nov. 2, regional property supervisor JoAn Hohmann of Monarch Properties told approved tenant Darryl Lorenzo Wellington (who, full disclosure, contributes to SFR) in an email that construction on the complex had been postponed and tenants would likely not be able to move in by Nov. 15. Wellington says he only learned of the delay after he and others were asked to provide more information to Monarch before movein, which, he says, made him and his fellow renters nervous. A similar email went out to the rest of the tenants later that day causing a sort of panic ripple effect.

Would-be tenant Ronnie Ortiz tells SFR that the move-in delay is yet another in a long line she’s already weathered. Her current housing situation technically ended in September, she says, and she and her partner were supposed to be able to move in then.

Ortiz says that September came with the fourth such delay and that she’s had to repeatedly jump through hoops to prove she’s on disability for PTSD. “Monarch failed to say a couple documents were needed after I went to the office in August,” she says by email. “They’d sat on my paperwork since then, and if I hadn’t gone by their office recently, it would have still been incomplete. It’s ridiculous that someone would even have to lay bare their issues—multiple times, even—to be properly accommodated.”

Others face tricky obstacles as well.

Local artist Zienna Stewart also received the email about giving notice, and did so, but as the murky timeline played out, she learned her space in Siler Yard was not secured.

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Apparently, the gig worker tells SFR, she did not meet income requirements in the end.

Werwath says he and Monarch are now aware that extrapolating income for gig workers and the self-employed is more complicated than originally thought, and Inter-Faith is creating a more comprehensive policy for working out that math. Stewart says she’s lucky in that she and her partner can stay with friends for the time being, but their stuff remains in storage and the application process with Monarch was stressful. Even now, she says, she’s trying to work out how to get approval.

“I feel sympathetic to them, of course, because it’s a huge project,” Stewart tells SFR, “but I feel so terrible for families who are in this situation.”

Werwath says he selected the Nov. 15 move-in date because it seemed possible at the time. After previous delays stretching back to the original August opening target date, he notes, the contractor, Albuquerque’s Pavilion Construction, was sure the first apartments would be ready by Nov. 1. They added two weeks to that timeline just to be safe. Then the delays kept coming. Siler Yard, for example, has a goal for net zero carbon emissions, and thus selected specific hybrid electric water heaters for the project. Those, Werwath says, are still stuck in the factory—and the contractor has been attempting to find replacements one at a time at Home Depot stores around the country.

Since they run on electricity, the water heaters require both plumbing and electrical inspections, which means they can’t be checked until after they they’re fully installed and operational. Werwath says the heaters should be inspected at some point between Nov. 10 and 16, but that is not the

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final building inspection. Additionally, he says, three of the four phase one buildings at Siler Yard share amenities, like classrooms, laundry facilities and a manager’s office.

Because of this, and only after applying for water meters following a water inspection, did they learn the city only provides affordable housing offsets for the tenant units themselves and not for common assets—a challenge that came with a $60,000 price tag.

“After about a week of back and forth trying to figure out why rental projects have to provide these water rights transfers when homeownership projects get their laundry and landscaping included because they are all on one meter,” Werwath explains, “we finally gave in and just paid them money... and then it took about another week for them to get the meters in. All told, this took up about two weeks we didn’t anticipate.”

For now, Werwath says, he is hopeful tenants can start moving in Dec. 1, and that Inter-Faith Housing will work with any displaced Santa Feans to make sure they won’t go without a roof over their heads.

“We’re still working on details, but we’ve authorized funding to place fully qualified folks that were delayed on move-in with a hotel room with kitchenette starting on the 15th,” he tells SFR. “Still hoping to avoid this or only have this be for a few days. As far as we can tell at this point, I think there’s only a handful of families that will be affected and hopefully for less than a week. But we’ve set aside funding until Dec. 1 in case something else comes up.”

Hiccups were expected, Werwath adds.

Siler Yard is the first project of its kind in Santa Fe, and kind of like “learning to fly the plane while building it—during a pandemic,” he says.

The city’s slow inspection system is also a known issue. In a letter to Mayor Alan Webber, the City Council and other officials from September, Santa Fe’s Land Use Working Group, which is composed of members from the Santa Fe Area Homebuilders Association, the Santa Fe Association of Realtors and other interested parties, wrote that “The backlog of permit applications, plan reviews, inspections and difficulty communicating efficiently with Land Use Staff remain untenable to all parties—exacerbating the housing crisis, and causing financial stressors on our industry that snowball into other areas of our fragile economy.”

Fragola, meanwhile, says her current housing is so cold that she wraps her newborn up in a snowsuit at night.

“We’re artists and we’re savvy with what little money we have, but the whole point was to not have to live that life anymore,” she says. “It’s triggering to a lot of us.”

Better Walk to School Santa Fe officials looking at cost for a dedicated trail for students from Cottonwood Village to El Camino Real B Y B E L L A D AV I S b e l l a @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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ouses line one side of the dirt trail between Cottonwood Village Mobile Home neighborhood and El Camino Real Academy, and the dry Santa Fe River bed presses against the other. On a recent afternoon, a few kids take the first detour off the trail on their way home from school, passing by a graffitied wall marked with, among other things, a swastika.

Another student continues on and heads home a ways up the path, about a 10-minute walk from the school.

It’s a well-worn trail, with many students using it to and from the K-8 school as a faster, on-foot commute than taking the sidewalk along South Meadows Road or having parents drive them, particularly when traffic backs up.

Despite the convenience, many parents feel it isn’t safe for their kids to trudge the trail alone. And they are pushing for funding to pave the path and line it with fencing.

A city advisory committee is working on a report to explore cost estimates that city officials will use to identify funding. Some city officials tell SFR they’re looking for federal money to complete the project—and local nonprofit executives say it should be a priority—but they’re wary of the difficulties involved with securing cash from Washington, DC for these kinds of initiatives.

Byanka Tarango, a teacher at El Camino Real who lives at Cottonwood Village, sometimes takes the path with her son, who’s in third grade, on their way to school. Tarango would prefer the boy not traverse it by himself because she worries about kidnapping and the used syringes that sometimes litter the trail.

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A student at El Camino Real Academy walks home to Cottonwood Village Mobile Home neighborhood on the Southside.

calls for service” along the trail. That doesn’t necessarily mean people haven’t called, he writes, only that without a date, report number or name of a caller, he wasn’t able to find any records of calls.

Still, Tarango is relieved she’s able to accompany her son, unlike many other parents.

“I think my son is lucky to have a mom that works there who can walk with him and take care of him, but we have some parents that can’t go with their kids because they have other, younger kids to take care of or they have to work,” Tarango says.

Tarango wants the city to create a paved, fenced-in trail. She says it would ease her mind—not to mention offer some welcome relief in the winter, when the dirt trail gets muddy.

She’s worked at the school for seven years and lived at the mobile home park for about six years.

“I feel kind of upset because I think even though it’s the Southside, it’s still school and we have to protect the students,” Tarango says. “It would be really good to invest in something the kids would use because it’s not going away. It’s something people will continue using for years.”

City Councilor Roman “Tiger” Abeyta— who recently lost reelection to tire shop owner Lee Garcia in District 3, home to Cottonwood Village and El Camino Real— told SFR last month that he is aware of the ways students use the back route and wants to see the city take up the project.

“We’ve got to do a better job of connecting our children to their schools with trails especially here in District 3 and on the Southside,” Abeyta says.

He says federal money for such projects can be hard to come by. So the city may have to find funding itself, with the possibility of getting reimbursed later on.

“It could take a while because sometimes federal grant cycles can be years out or it can take years before you’re eligible, so that may be something we have to bypass as a city and try to fund ourselves if we can,” Abeyta says.

“I don’t think we can afford to wait another five or six years.”

Erick Aune, senior planner with the Santa Fe Metropolitan Planning Organization, tells SFR the city, county and Santa Fe Public Schools had a joint meeting in 2018 where they identified the trail as a project that ought to be undertaken.

The city’s Capital Improvements Advisory Committee is working on a preliminary engineering report to provide a cost estimate for the project, which the city will use to identify the best funding sources—for example, a request to the Legislature or, as Abeyta suggested, city money.

There’s not yet a deadline for when the report must be complete, Aune says, but he hopes it’ll be done by early spring.

“The need is so blatant that we’re really committed to trying to make it happen,” Aune says.

Tim Rogers, trails program manager at the nonprofit Santa Fe Conservation Trust, says the trail should be a top priority.

“This has always been one of the routes that’s, to me, the lowest-hanging fruit as far as getting more kids to walk and bike to school,” Rogers tells SFR. “It’s the lowest-hanging fruit in the city as far as I can tell…just in terms of promoting it and getting kids to use it based on the proximity of the subdivision to the school.”

Rogers is also the coordinator of the “Safe Routes to School” initiative, which aims to get more kids walking or biking to school and is being funded by $300,000 in federal grant money over two years.

The trust has a city contract to pilot the program, which it’s doing partly by working with several Southside schools to work bike and pedestrian safety education into the classroom. Rogers says El Camino Real’s physical education classes already incorporate similar lessons.

Pedestrian safety has long been an issue in the city, particularly on the Southside.

In 2014, a crossing guard named Dolores Byers talked with SFR after she was injured running in front of a car that wasn’t slowing down for a girl Byers was trying to help guide across a crosswalk off Airport Road.

The crosswalk didn’t have a stoplight or stop sign to urge slower traffic.

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EPA Could Learn From NM on Methane

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he state of New Mexico found itself ahead of the curve on a national issue when the US Environmental Protection Agency announced its plans Nov. 2 to implement new, more restrictive methane rules for oil and gas operators across the country sometime next year.

The state is in the middle of implementing its own, more thorough methane rules, which were written into law this past March.

Regular venting and flaring of natural gas is already banned, and operators are currently logging leaks on a well-by-well basis. That tally will set the baseline by which all emissions are to be reduced by 98% by 2026.

The state’s rules are the background message for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, as she talks up the state’s climate efforts at greenhouse gas reductions and green energy technologies at COP26, the United Nations’ global climate change conference being held in Glasgow, Scotland.

“We want the federal government to adopt the same standards that we have in New Mexico,” she said in an interview on the sidelines of the conference. “And we have certainly been laying that foundation.”

New Mexico has an outsized role to play in the US response to climate change, as the state is the second-largest producer of oil and among the top-10 producers of natural gas in the country. In addition, more than 50% of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the oil and gas sector. But the state still faces multiple challenges in tamping down emissions: The rules have a five-year implementation period, and state agencies are still figuring out how to conduct widespread inspections and enforce them. Moreover, as oil and gas production continues to increase, emissions increase as well. These problems will likely plague the 10

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nation as a whole, as the EPA tries to wrangle its rules into place.

A survey of state production statistics and satellite records of methane emissions reflects the scope of the problem. They show recent dramatic increases in production of both oil and gas, as well as increasing atmospheric methane—a symptom of leaking petroleum operations. And in spite of the new methane rules, the state’s overall oil and gas production numbers are increasing and are primed to increase further yet.

In Lea and Eddy counties, covering most of New Mexico’s share of the Permian Basin, oil and gas production are at their highest levels ever. In fact, when looking at annual totals, production increased even as oil

prices tanked during the global economic shutdown in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

But that production comes with a sharp rise in methane.

Atmospheric scans of the Permian Basin by a trio of Earth-monitoring satellites show a sharp rise in the amount of methane across that region that parallels the rise in petroleum production.

The gas, which often leaks from wells and pipelines, is a potent greenhouse gas contributor, trapping roughly 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide does over its first 20 years in the atmosphere.

In addition, recent pinpoint data from the Environmental Defense Fund reflects this uptick in methane. This fall it conducted airborne scans of individual oil and gas sites across the Permian Basin, showing widespread leaks and venting from both major installations and smaller well sites.

Lujan Grisham’s climate change initiatives face an additional, growing challenge: The vast number of wells in the state is still growing.

Methane emissions density recorded in November 2020 in New Mexico by the Environmental Defense Fund shows the highest levels over the Permian Basin.

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Nationally, the number of well-drilling rigs has dropped from just under 1,100 in late-2018 to just under 550 now. However, in New Mexico, the rig count has stayed stronger in that period, dropping from a high of 114 in March 2020 to 86 now. For more than two years, only Texas has had more. It’s an indication that producers have slowed operations in other states to focus new production in the Permian Basin.

Furthermore, the US Bureau of Land Management resumed oil and gas lease auctions following a pause invoked by the Biden administration at the start of the year as it reviewed federal leasing policy.

The pause was struck down by a Louisiana judge in June, and now, roughly 520 acres of leases are up for auction on New Mexico’s side of the Permian Basin.

In addition, in October, the New Mexico State Land Office auctioned off eight oil and gas leases covering 1,320 acres in Lea and Eddy counties. This month it will auction off nine more covering 2,476 acres.

These numbers at both the state and federal levels don’t include thousands of leases already sold and awaiting drilling.

Jon Goldstein, senior director for regulatory and legislative affairs at the Environmental Defense Fund, says, “Now that production and activity in the Permian is increasing—again—to historic levels, we are seeing emissions return to problematic levels as well.”

Goldstein says that while New Mexico is, in many ways, ahead of the EPA in creating and implementing methane regulations, two issues remain. One is with New Mexico’s partner in the Permian. “The emission doesn’t stop at the state line,” he says. So while the state rules are important, “Folks are going to continue to get impacted from those wells just across the line in Texas.” That’s one way the proposed EPA rules are still important to New Mexicans, even if New Mexico already has its own rules.

The industry’s oil and gas wells also leak other unhealthy gasses, known as ozone precursors. These chemicals create ground-level ozone, a known health hazard, especially for children and the elderly.

“Asthma, pulmonary disease, COPD exacerbation, any number of issues … look no further than where people are living close to the oil and gas industry,” Lujan Grisham said at COP26. “It’s an outrageous set of circumstances that call for immediate action.

We have a moral obligation to completely upend that situation.”

The state Environment Department has a separate set of rules awaiting final approval early next year that would curtail those emissions and have a knock on effect of fur-

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Now that production and activity in the Permian is increasing— again—to historic levels, we are seeing emissions return to problematic levels as well.

-Jon Goldstein, senior director, regulatory and legislative affairs, at the Environmental Defense Fund

ther curtailing methane leaks from oil and gas production as well.

Meanwhile, the Oil Conservation Division (OCD) is collecting well monitoring reports from operators across the state in its role as the pointy end of the spear in the state’s fight against methane leaks in oilfield equipment.

That began in October, and the first report on those numbers will come out in February. Baseline emissions will be set following a second report in May. OCD Director Adrienne Sandoval explains that “once the baseline is set, operators will have to meet increasing gas capture percentages year after year” until the 98% reduction in 2026.

In a fluke of fate, operators are measuring their leaks and setting the baseline during a record high production period,

which could lead to a larger allowed 2% than might have happened if the measuring had taken place during a bust period.

Tom Singer, a senior policy adviser with the Western Environmental Law Center, was on the state’s Methane Advisory Panel that helped develop both the OCD and NMED rules in 2019, along with representatives from the petroleum industry.

“It was a crapshoot,” he says of the dates the panel picked for the baseline monitoring.

“There was just no way to forecast.” He jokes that “the ideal baseline would have been 2015,” in the midst of an oil and gas bust.

But Singer also points out that the state’s rules are “breaking new ground” in the extent of reporting required of operators, though that is tempered by the fact that they are self-reporting without third-party verification.

“I’m looking very carefully at who’s reporting what and seeing if there’s some way to verify that,” he says.

These loopholes and weak spots could prove educational to the EPA as it finalizes national rules. And even then, Goldstein at the EDF notes that what the EPA announced on Tuesday is eclipsed by the state’s rules, which ban both routine venting and flaring (the EPA proposal bans only venting) and include regular inspections at smaller, leakprone wells.

He says that’s important because “we’re just gonna continue to ride this roller coaster unless we get strong requirements in place that ensure that we’re ramping down this emissions problem.”

And that emissions problem is why world leaders met at COP 26 in the first place.

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You Down With OCC? Outstanding Citizens Collective hip-hop crew nears 15 years with roots that stretch back even further

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t all comes back to Benito Martinez III—aka Benzo.

In June, the Santa Fe musician died, sending shockwaves through the local hip-hop community and beyond. He’d been a diverse and singular style-setter, experimenter and connector. And though his friends and collaborators continue to grieve and contend with Martinez’s untimely death at age 32, the seeds he planted nearly two decades ago in a trailer home on the Southside continue to flourish.

Indeed, as local hip-hop crew Outstanding Citizens Collective, which Martinez helped found, continues its multi-tiered approach to writing, performance, design, business and more, he would surely be cheering them on and basking in the glow of their mid- and post-pandemic plans. In a town like Santa Fe, where the refrain seems to be something like “We just don’t have hip-hop,” MCs and DJs like Wolfman Jack, Fluid, Cap, OG Willikers, Rill, Prismatic Soul, Anthonius Monk and Shatter might have a little something to say about that. And though there will likely be nothing that ever fills that Benzo void, the legacy he spawned continues strong, both through the core OCC members contained herein and those who’ve come and gone over the years.

As the crew returns to live shows and its members consistently release albums—including a new, previously unreleased track from Benzo, Wolfman Jack, Prismatic Soul and Anthonius Monk dubbed “Art of Oz” and released Nov. 3 for what would have Martinez’s birthday—the question remains: You down with OCC? VOCAB SLICK AND DJ TRUE JUSTICE WITH RMLLW2LLZ, BANDIT LORDZ, STONEDAGE AND OCC 7 pm Sunday, Nov. 14. $10 Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Gría St., (505)393-5135

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The Record Keeper

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“They call me the historian because, for some reason, I remember all this stuff,” Pablo Paz tells SFR. These days, Paz spends more time behind the decks as his DJ Shatter persona, but he worked previously as an MC under the moniker Adrenaline Truth with hip-hop act SBLMNL RNSNS (no relation to the Outstanding Citizens Collective). Paz cites 2004 as the earliest beginnings of the the OCC, though, he says, there was no grand unifying group at the time, just numerous high school-aged hip-hop fans making lo-fi beats and freestyling in Martinez’s trailer home, dubbed The Sweatshop for the heat of the computers used in the recording process—and the lack of air conditioning. Paz had known Martinez since elementary school, and the two were close; he would eventually

introduce Martinez to other students at Santa Fe High School.

“In that first iteration, it was called Line of Sight,” Paz says of the group formed by Benzo and Dylan Delgado, aka Wolfman Jack, who would go on to be a close collaborator with and confidant of Martinez. “It was people we played football with, a community atmosphere. That’s why it would get so hot in The Sweatshop, and that’s when I first saw the madness going on.”

Paz says Martinez, Delgado, himself and anyone else brave enough would record on low-quality stick microphones over primitive beats Martinez created. By 2005, Line of Sight was ready to perform.

“We did a couple open mics at Warehouse 21, and it was just goofing around, but people like [Warehouse 21 founder] Ana Gallegos y Reinhardt supported us,” Paz says. “So she put us in touch with a promoter and it ended up being one of the first times we were ever booked—prom night.”

Line of Sight would open for hip-hop legends CunninLynguists, and the crowd would be crammed with high schoolers in their finery, fresh off a night at the formal dance.

“We listened to CunninLynguists growing up, and that inspired us,” Paz says. “For us, it was huge, and since it was prom night, we talked [the promoter] into letting people have a discount if they came in their tux or gown.

Everybody came.”

Paz says the night collectively opened the group’s eyes.

“Before the music, we didn’t really hang out much, but that’s what created the synergy,” he recalls.

Local shows would follow, but soon Line of Sight’s members would graduate high school and head off to college. The collaborations lessened for a time, but Paz says Martinez never quit making music, even while attending New Mexico State University in Las Cruces and, later, New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas.

Ask any member of the Outstanding Citizens Collective and they’ll tell you the same—the late Benito Martinez III was the linchpin.

“I went off to college at the University of Hawaii, and Benzo recorded two or three albums after I moved,” he tells SFR. “Those became like the soundtrack for all of us and we were playing it wherever we were. I was playing the tracks on my college radio show.”

After college, Paz returned to Santa Fe hoping to get into the film business, and indeed he has with minor roles in projects like Better Call Saul and Cry Macho. The OCC is still very much a part of his life, though.

“I think the passion is back and we need it more,” he explains of the crew returning to live performances amid COVID-19. “As a crew, for our mental health and sanity, I can see it every time we get onstage. And because we’ve soaked up Benzo’s vibe, we have more to give. There’s no quit in any of us.”

The Originator

“Pablo introduced me to everybody because he’s a jock and a nerd at the same time,” says Dylan Delgado, aka Wolfman Jack. In high school, Delgado was a skater, and by his sophomore year, discovering hip-hop acts like Jedi Mind Tricks, Gang Starr and Pete Rock changed his entire idea of what music could be. Paz would take him to meet Martinez at The Sweatshop and, Delgado says, “I was definitely onboard.”

“Benzo was miles ahead of us, though,” Delgado continues, “but for whatever reason, he saw potential in us, so we were like, ‘Yeah. Let’s keep going.’”

Like it had been for Paz, Delgado’s experience at the prom night CunninLynguists show changed a lot.

“After that, it was nose to the grindstone,” he says.

“Line of Sight made the Milestone Mixtape, and we were selling it at the school cafeteria senior year. After that, it was off to college at NMSU.” Delgado would return to Santa Fe and move in with Erik Scott (aka OCC member Fluid, who we’ll get to later) and his brother Max (a former OCC collaborator who went by Symmetry).

“And we were just making songs,” Delgado explains.

“Benzo was constantly giving us beats from Las Cruces, and he would come home during breaks, so we set up in the laundry room of that house. Eventually, Benzo brought his computer and that’s where it lived whether he was at school or not.”

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This leads to 2007 when, according to Paz and Delgado, Erik Scott suggested the name Outstanding Citizens.

“In the community we’re living in, we were just trying to be upstanding citizens,” Delgado says with a laugh.

“Erik would make these posters that said ‘Outstanding Citizens,’ and they each had pictures of us on them.

Eventually, with our affiliates, it came to be, like, 15 people—even people who didn’t make music.”

There would be projects within projects, too, including Delgado and Benzo’s duo act Osmosis. Benzo would eventually pick up management for a time, which included a brief musical stint in Los Angeles. But when all was said and done, Outstanding Citizens remained whole, even throughout sporadic distances, in-fighting and life’s various milestones.

The Visionary

came from Cincinnati, and I was a freestyle rapper out there. All I knew was: Go to parties, find the people who rap. But when I came to New Mexico, it was this new energy.”

Scott says the following years found him living with his brother and Delgado, during which time they and any other Outstanding Citizens members would freestyle for hours.

“It really was that for years,” he explains. “We’d write, if not a song a day, two or three every week. And hip-hop was therapy for me; I was a very angry person, and now I have a go-be-productive, go-be-positive build.”

This can come out in various ways, according to Scott, but the most common product of his hip-hop driven way of life might be the verbosity of his rhymes. A first verse in a Fluid song, he says, might be longer than most rappers’ entire track.

“I like wordplay, syllables and sounds—playing with those to stimulate a pattern,” he tells SFR. “My last album is called P.I.E.—and it stands for ‘Presentation is Everything.’ And I would say this: I wouldn’t put me down as the connector, but I’ve always had a vision.”

The Scratcher

“Yes, Benzo is a common thread in all this,” says Erik Scott (aka Fluid), the Ohio-based rapper who came to town to attend the long-closed College of Santa Fe in 2005, met Martinez and Delgado at a house party and, as the legend goes, was the person to get up one day and say “This should be called Outstanding Citizens.”

“When I met Benito and Wolfman, at that point I had never written a song, performed a show,” Scott says. “I

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Justin Ulibarri (aka DJ Cap) can pinpoint the moment he fell in love with hip-hop.

“I was 12 or 13, and it was one of those weekends where you spent the night at that friend’s house who had the cool parents,” he remembers. “His dad took us cruising around the city, through all of Santa Fe, and he had this real nice stereo...My friend had just gotten a Beat Junkies mixtape, and before this I’d only heard a handful of what you might call underground hip-hop, but for me, in that moment, hearing the turntables, the samples, the horns and strings? I was like, ‘Ohmygod.

I’m going to listen to this music forever.’”

But whereas most budding hip-hop fans might connect more with lyrical content right off the bat, Ulibarri was instantly drawn to the nuts and bolts—the beats and melodies. He’d known Delgado from his skating days (Delgado with the board, Ulibarri with the rollerblades) and knew that Line of Sight was making hip-hop someplace. He’d even seen them perform at Warehouse 21 after their formation in ’05.

By 2008, Ulibarri had picked up his own turntables and taught himself to DJ and scratch—no small feat in the days before YouTube tutorials were the norm; scratch instructors and turntablist lessons weren’t exactly as commonplace as they are for the guitar or bass.

Still, he says, he worked it out.

“I remember going over to Fluid’s house, and Benzo was there, and I’d brought my turntables to help lay some cuts with them,” Ulibarri recounts. “This would have been Osmosis, Wolfman and Benzo, and at first it was just playing records, but then Benzo started making a beat. I laid over some scratches. That was the first serious collaboration we did. Benzo was the driving force behind it, the guy who said ‘Let’s actually do this.

Let’s take this out of the bedroom.’”

Ulibarri says he’s tried to incorporate as many sounds as possible since then, and Paz says he’s the collective’s go-to DJ. “The whole reason I kept going, I always kept with it, was because it was one of those things that never had any boundaries,” Ulibarri says. “As soon as I think I’ve figured it out, it opens up this whole other door or I turn a corner, and there’s a whole other corner. In any art form, the more you put in, the more you get out, of course, but especially when you have other friends who do it. All we’re trying to do at the end of the day is make art.”

The Pro

idea of professionalism and even kicked off the Ra Ra Room podcast, named for Maloof’s studio. That was also the year they officially adopted the Outstanding Citizens Collective moniker. By 2020, Maloof had both a dedicated hip-hop show on Madrid’s KMRD radio station and a monthly residency at the Mine Shaft Tavern dubbed Rhyme Craft at the Mine Shaft. Today, he’s gearing up to release his next album, Feast/Famine, produced by Albuquerque hip-hop vet iGod, on Nov. 19.

“It’s one of my more honest and darker albums,” he explains. “I say more about my mental health than I usually do, and more about myself than I usually do.

This was a good experience, and even if the world listened to it and thought it was my worst album, I didn’t make it to top anything—I made it as a mental health practice because I wanted to stay as honest as I could.”

The New Kids

The Storyteller Prior to 2011, local musician Zach Maloof (aka OG Willikers) had been more of a pop punk and emo kind of guy. In 2011, however, an audio software class at the Santa Fe Community College with musical mastermind Jason Goodyear changed Maloof’s tune.

“The final assignment was a performance of something you had made with electronic music,” Maloof tells SFR. “I did this rap performance with my friend Taylor Osborn as State of the Mingo, and I had such a fun time that it reminded me of the older punk days—the ones with crowds. I’d become a coffee shop acoustic player, someone for people to talk over—and it was boring, so once I got a taste of the rap show, it reminded me what I had originally gotten into music for.”

Still, Maloof says, as a newcomer, he was unfamiliar with rap and hip-hop culture. Not wanting to piggyback onto something without doing his due diligence, Maloof did the work—studying artists and developing his style. Sometime the following year, Delgado offered OG Willikers a spot on an Outstanding Citizens show during sadly-defunct nightclub Corazón’s heyday.

“It was just one of those moments,” Maloof says.

State of the Mingo would split up and Maloof would continue his relationship with Outstanding Citizens.

Together, they’d host parties on a train that breifly became a nightclub and assume a weekly residency at also-since-closed local punk and rap mecca The Underground. Maloof was eventually invited to join the Outstanding Citizens crew.

“They recognized I’d elevated myself as an MC,” he says. “Plus, I’d always been a promoter since I came from Warehouse 21—I’m DIY everything, so I had a lot to offer. We became a little more serious, and that’s how Outstanding Citizens, the OC, got that extra ‘C’ for ‘Collective.’”

“Hip-hop is like the voice of the unheard,” Maloof continues. “It’s like graffiti—you write your name to say ‘I was here. I exist,’ and that, to me, is what punk is like, too. In hip-hop, you can say anything. I got tired of writing my love songs, and now I can write about absolutely anything.”

By 2016, the crew had toured, released multiple records in various configurations, tightened their shared

“I heard a quote from Quincy Jones, and I can’t remember it exactly,” says OCC outlier Josh Reed (aka Rill, who’ll henceforth rap under the moniker OHGOODIE), “but it was something like‚ ‘what music really is, is where the goodie is.’”

Reed hails from Chicago but relocated to Santa Fe around 2011. He met Delgado at an Underground show that first year.

“I was solo but had come from this group GWAP Team,” he tells SFR. “In Santa Fe, right away we started doing shows together—mostly Outstanding Citizens would have their own set, and they’d sneak me in here and there, and it started building.”

Reed doesn’t have any official releases through the OCC, but he’s collaborated with Wolfman Jack on a few tracks. As a lyricist and father, he says, his practice has evolved to showcase more positivity. Still, growing up listening to Mos Def, Jay-Z and Biggie influenced his style and sound. They were, he says, storytellers, and that’s what he aspires to do.

“I want to be happy,” Reed says, “but I want it to come with that edge. Coming to Santa Fe, working with these guys...it tested me. I take more time, for sure.

There’s a grit you can find. You can really make something. We are a city that needs that.”

Outstanding Citizens Collective isn’t just focused on the now, though, and this is most apparent when it comes to its newest members, Anthony Gallardo (aka Anthonius Monk) and Alexandria Hernandez (aka Prismatic Soul). Together, the roommates and collaborators are Art of Rhyme; separately, they’re skillful MCs and lyricists in their own respective rights.

“It’s kind of funny, because he was giving me a ride to Albuquerque one night after work [at Trader Joe’s] and I was like, ‘did you know I make hip-hop?’ and we just vibed from there,” Hernandez says. “It was kind of coincidental.

I’d written poetry before, but I had just written my first rhyme and, I guess, being new to the world of hip-hop, I didn’t know if I could be taken seriously.”

Hernandez says she had already been a fast fan of Gallardo’s music, and that his confidence in her from that point was instrumental in the creative pairing. The more she received feedback from him and others, she says, the more confident she became in her ability. Now she and Gallardo work together most days, with him crafting beats and her writing nonstop.

“I knew we had to work together,” Gallardo explains. “I had my own little recording setup, and I would push her to record with me. Now we’re always passing ideas to each other through notes in our phones.”

Both Gallardo and Hernandez see big things in the future. As of now, they plan to tour come January, but Santa Fe, they say, will remain home base. In the past, Gallardo points out, artists would have to move to a bigger city to make a go of it. With the rise of free or affordable streaming and downloads through services like Bandcamp and Spotify, though, it’s easier to get the music out there.

“It’s definitely a lot brighter,” he says.

“And we’ve been trying to create as much as possible,” Hernandez adds. “Hip-hop can teach you so many things that are important. Our mission is to show it in a positive light.”

As she stands in the fall Santa Fe light, post-interview and exchanging a few more words on hip-hop, Hernandez lifts her hand to show off a piece of jewelry. The small, custom-made ring is gold and comprises a single name: Benzo.

“This way, I’ll always have him with me,” she says.

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Maier’s experimental method of long exposures meant dozens of Santa Fe sites captured in a unique retro-style that can only be achieved by super-talented people these days. Keep trying though, influencers, keep trying. (RG) Electric Polaroids: All day. Free. Historic Santa Fe Foundation 545 Canyon Road Ste. 2, (505) 983-2567

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EVENT FRI/12-SUN/13 TRASH, ART, REPEAT You may be surprised to know that our little outpost of a town hosts the nation’s largest recycled art show and market, or maybe it won’t surprise you at all. But great art can come from anywhere, including your trash bin. Turning recyclable materials into art is itself a form of recycling, and the 22nd Annual Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival sets out to prove that to you: this weekend-long event presents vintage(ish) kimonos and jewelry, handbags, wall art and sculpture. Come Friday night ($5) for a documentary screening of New Mexicans Taking Action on Plastic Waste, and check out the free show Saturday and Sunday. (RG) 22nd Annual Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival: 5-9 pm Friday, Nov. 12, 9am-5pm Saturday, Nov. 12 and 10am-5pm Sunday, Nov. 13. $5 Friday, free Saturday and Sunday. Santa Fe Convention Center 201 W Marcy St, recyclesantafe.org

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More Than a Chair to Me New art show hopes to bring a new perspective to household furniture “I’m really fascinated by the human body and scale,” artist Luis Diego Rigales tells SFR. “I like to question what these masses are, how they reflect us as people and how they help us live more fulfilling lives.”

Rigales has always been interested in the stories told by our furniture. It carried with him through his youth, into and beyond his college years at the University of New Mexico’s architecture program.

Blending the two passions birthed his new show Subconscious Design, which explores the unspoken stories sitting in your pile of dirty clothes or how you’ve arranged your pillows—not the weird stuff, but the personal.

“I did some mapping of rooms with people, where a camera tracked the usage of objects throughout the space,” he explains. “That was cool, because we saw people’s little daily rituals and how they interact with objects, what was mundane [to them] and what was sacred. The question became: what can furniture be beyond just objects?”

Pieces vary between the regular and the extraordinary, the stories held in our personal spaces we often don’t let out into the bigger world. Call it that silent architecture of the human mind, our inner emotions at work or, in some cases, conscious design choices—Regales sees all the things in our homes as whispers revealing who we are as people, leaning into the humanist view of who we can be. Can all these things really be explained by what’s piled up, what’s ignored and what’s handled with care?

Rigales believes they can.

“All these pieces have personality,” he concludes. “Each one is an example of someone or something good that’s happened in my life. There’s a lot of feeling here, even in these things. I mean, at that point, is a chair really still only a chair?”

(Riley Gardner) SUBCONSCIOUS DESIGN 11 am-6 pm, Wed, Nov. 10-Sun, Nov. 14 Free. Horseshoe Gallery @ Bishop’s Lodge 1297 Bishop’s Lodge Road, (505) 577-5591

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All day, free CHAMOY Smoke the Moon 101 Marcy St., Ste. 23 These paintings by Javi Ramirez hold a particular focus on the relationship between the natural and supernatural world. Here you can get some artistic renderings of distorted flora and funny creatures.

All day, free ANIMAL PORTRAITS: THE OTHER WORLD photo-eye Gallery 1300 Rufina Circle, Ste. A3 (505) 988-5152 x202 Brad Wilson’s animal portrait photography brings out the magic within every animal featured. In conjunction with his book release, The Other World.

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GO WEST SAID A SMALL VOICE New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Landscape works and marionettes from Gustave Baumann, inspired by his 1918 relocation to New Mexico from some other old place.

10 am-5 pm, $0-$12 IN SEARCH OF DOMÍNGUEZ AND ESCALANTE New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5100 The American West has changed since Franciscan friars traveled through in 1776. This photography show contrasts what the friars saw and what exists in New Mexico now.

10 am-5 pm, $7-$12 INSPIRED BY THE LAND: PART II Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711 Twenty represented Indigenous artists. This second part to this going show focuses on the magic in the natural world.

All day, free KYLE MAIER: ELECTRIC POLAROID Historic Santa Fe Foundation 545 Canyon Road, Ste. 2 (505) 983-2567 Filmmaker Kyle Maier's visual storytelling skills bridge a gap between artist interpretations and American history. This exhibition, Electric Polaroid, features the wild collection of Polaroids that Maier captured around Santa Fe. (see SFR picks, page 17) All day, free MONO CIEZA AND MAYA FUJI Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574 Argentine sculptor Cieza’s Archeology of Future uses various materials and combinations such as resin, ceramic and bronze. Fuji’s painting series Humid Nostalgia offers a blend of Japanese mythology and her experience as a first-generation American.

All day, free MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART EXHIBITION Museum of Encaustic Art 18 County Road 55A, Cerrillos (505) 424-6487 A showcase of over 100 of the magazine’s featured artist’s work from the past decade of Encaustic’s magazine.

All day, $10

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Chandelier by Peter Harrington. Moth Wings and Pagodas opens Friday, Nov 12 at Ellsworth Gallery.

NATIVE AMERICAN NACIMIENTOS Adobe Gallery 221 Canyon Road (505) 955-0550 Historical nacimientos, or Nativity scenes, from various Indigenous artists.

All day, free

PARALLEL TRAJECTORIES Currents 826 826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953 Works on paper by Robert Campbell and David Stout, organic patterns that evoke landscape and architecture.

All day, free

PAST PERFECT FUTURE form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256 Erin Mickelson’s show includes printmaking, bookbinding, new and mixed media, artist books and micro-press publishing.

All day, free

PLEIN AIR PAINTERS OF NEW MEXICO Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555 The 13th National Juried Members Show of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico. The exhibition includes up to 100 works created within the last two years from award winners and other participants.

All day, free POETIC JUSTICE New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Exhibition that showcases the formal and thematic intersection of artists Judith F. Baca (b. 1946), Mildred Howard (b. 1945) and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940 Citizen of Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, MT), all of whom had a passion for social justice and societal progression.

All day, free REEMERGENCE 2021 Balzer Contemporary Edge Gallery at IAIA 83 Avan Nu Po Road (505) 424-2305 IAIA’s first in-person senior exhibition since 2019! This exhibit examines a wide range of concepts spanning from identity to the effects of COVID-19 and a deep individual reflection of practices and mediums.

All day, free RESURGENCE: MARK MAGGIORI PORTRAITS FROM E.I. COUSE’S PUEBLO PHOTOS Couse-Sharp Historic Site: Lunder Research Center 138 Kit Carson Road, Taos (575) 751-0369 Works from artist-in-residence Mark Maggiori, a series based on Eanger Irving Couse photographs, which detailed Native life in Taos and beyond. noon-4pm, Tuesday-Saturday, free LAND CRAFT THEATRE SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Celebrating the legacy of adobera and enjarradora— women who are masters at constructing and preserving earthen buildings. Joanna Keane Lopez’s work explores the boundries between large-scale installation of art and adobe architecture and how home is where connections are born.

All day, free

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SUBCONSCIOUS DESIGN Bishop's Lodge Ranch Resort 1297 Bishop's Lodge Road (505) 983-6377 Luis Diego Rigales is a local Santa Fean/Latino artist interested in refocusing and repositioning ourselves within our physical bodies as objects as well as our perception of comfortability in space. How does furniture hold our memories and perceptions of the world? (see SFR picks, page 17) All day, free THERE’S NO OTHER LIKE YOUR MOTHER Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 From artist Brandy Triguero, who examines the complexities of womanhood alongside the societal and familial constructs as she tries to decide the kind of woman she wants to be.

All day, free UNTITLED ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320 A range of pieces in oil, acrylic, glass, sculpture and mixed media. Help ViVO Contemporary title Untitled— but in a symbolic way. Like, don’t send them emails and stuff.

All day, free WE WENT WILD IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 An exhibition of emerging students in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ (IAIA) BFA programs. Participating artists are from the American Southwest, Peru, Northern Great Plains and Japan. This exhibition of recent work comprises various media, including sculpture, painting and jewelry, which move as conduits for complex emotions.

All day, $5-$10

WED/10 BOOKS/LECTURES NATIVE POTTERY DEMONSTRATION Online bit.ly/3odxNqw Join mother and daughter Maxine and Dominique Toya for an online Indigenous pottery demonstration.

10 am, free TEN MORE DOORS, POLITICS AND THE PATH TO CHANGE Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 Stephanie Garcia Richards, New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands, explores where political inspiration comes from in times like these (aka sucky times).

6 pm, free

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THE CIVIL WAR AND NEW MEXICO New Mexico National Guard Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 474-1670 The New Mexico Military Museum and the New Mexico Military Museum Foundation host this event in tandem with their new Civil War exhibit. See virtual terrain modeling of historic Civil War sites in the state and a presentation on Civil War medicine.

6 pm, free

EVENTS DISTILLERY TOUR AND TASTING Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 32 Bisbee Court (505) 393-5135 Tumbleroot brewers and distillers lead tours of the production facility, followed by personalized tastings in the adjoining Bisbee Taproom.

4:30 pm, $7

FILM SECRETS TO SUCCESSFUL DATING: HOW TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL FIRST DATE Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Remember that disastrous Tinder date? Of course you do, it is etched into your memory until death do you part—but avoid bad thoughts for a few hours at the Jean Cocteau!

Drink, chat, meet new people and watch Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise. Hosted by dating coach Wendi Schuller.

6:30-9 pm, $13

MUSIC THE SANTA FE SYMPHONY: BEETHOVEN'S HARP St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-3530 An evening of (hopefully) uplifting chamber music, with pieces by Saint-Saëns, Ravel, Beethoven and Hannah Lash.

7 pm, free

THU/11 BOOKS/LECTURES THE RED DEAL: INDIGENOUS ACTION TO SAVE OUR EARTH Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 When the Indigenous-led podcast Red Nation released its call for a “red deal,” it generated coverage from Teen Vogue to Jacobin and more.

Now, the Red Nation expands its original statement and presents the case for action.

6 pm, free

DANCE AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE STUDIO COMPANY Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Masterworks of classical and neoclassical ballet on display with a cast of rising dancers from all around the world. Good for the fam.

7:30 pm, $29-$59 TANGO PRACTICA Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road An introduction to the world of tango's most iconic and important steps. Don't worry, there'll be a lot of useful practice time. Assume everyone there will be as much of a newb as you, dear reader. Proof of vaccination required on your first visit.

8 pm, $5

“fast, furious footwork” —the new york times

EVENTS DISTILLERY TOUR AND TASTING Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 32 Bisbee Court (505) 393-5135 It’s real chemistry at work here. Some people may just like the big machines, too.

Manufacturing tours aren’t just for tourists in Hershey, Pennsylvania these days.

4:30 pm, $7 MENTOR MIXER Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St. bbbs-cnm.org Want to socialize with your fellow Bigs or meet new friends? Join Big Brothers Big Sisters for an evening of drinks, networking and movie trivia on the agenda. Bring a friend to learn more about BBBS and you'll be entered into a drawing to win a prize.

5:30-7:30 pm, free SANTA FE VETERANS DAY CEREMONY Bataan Memorial Building 400 Don Gaspar Ave. (505) 827-6320 Vietnam Veterans of America presents awards to individuals and organizations for service to the veteran community. The Navy Band of the Southwest woodwind quintet will provide patriotic music. Anyone is welcome to attend.

11 am-12:30 pm, free SECOND THURSDAY SOCIAL RIDE Railyard Plaza Market and Alcaldesa Streets A charming and safe bike through the city to Second Street Rufina! All riders will get a raffle ticket for a Second Street Brewery gift card and REI bike tune-ups. Rain or shine, meet at 7 pm at the Railyard water tower, then ride out around 7:20. Expect 5 to 8 miles at a charming social pace with fellow riders.

7 pm, free

tuesday, november 30 I 7:30 pm Lensic Performing Arts Center Presented through the generosity of Ann Murphy Daily and William W. Daily

tickets start at $35 performancesantafe.org I 505 984 8759

bringing the world to a stage near you The Lensic Performing Arts Center will require that all persons attending events at the theater provide proof of full vaccination or the results of a negative Covid test taken within the previous 72 hours to gain admittance.

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After 18 years—to the best of her memory— helming 98.1 KBAC’s Friday Funk show, Lisa Clark, aka Lisa C. The Motherfunker, is hanging up her mic and headphones and heading to greener pastures. Or some kind of pastures, anyway. Clark will continue as the business manager for Hutton Broadcasting, which owns KBAC, and we caught up with Clark to get the lowdown on why funk speaks to her, how radio continues to be relevant and what her next steps might be after former KSFR DJ Shannon Sullivan takes over the show this week. (Alex De Vore) Why are you so damn obsessed with funk, Lisa?

Oh, that’s easy. I always say you either come into this world as one of the people who watched Soul Train on Sundays, or you were all about Dick Clark and American Bandstand. Funk music hit me more. Plus, my mother was a big music listener, and she listened to a lot of big music, a lot of Motown...there was a lot of music on at our house. I just gravitated.

I watched Soul Train religiously. And I’ve never heard a bad song on Soul Train.

There is just something about that particular music that makes you feel better. You just feel better. It’s not like country, that makes you sad, or some of the rock that hurts your ears—although I was a huge rock fan, too. But I also like jazz. Growing up here in Santa Fe, everybody, all our friends, were jazz musicians, so we’d have these big parties, like, jam session parties that were all jazz. I think jazz and soul and funk are related. Santa Fe in the ’70s was pretty cool. And not to tattle on myself, but I had my fake ID to go and listen to the music at Casablanca, which was the bar at La Fonda at the time. God, there was so much music in Santa Fe back then.

But when it comes to funk, it’s the groove, I think. The funk on the one. It’s the one. There’s something about that groove that moves your heart.

Why do you think community radio has proven so continually viable?

It’s because people are connected to their communities through it. You can tune in, listen to your favorite DJs— which is how I got into radio. I was a fan of KBAC while I was working in construction for 20 years. I was one of those fans who caught the bug, and radio was my constant companion. I’d work on the plans and listen, and they’re like your friends, you form a connection to them.

Plus, you know they’re in the community.

I would think, more so now because people are so isolated, that you enjoy your little radio friends. The voices come on, you know you can count on the same person, and it’s something that just goes on and on in times when everything else is crashing around you. It’s kind of for fans like me. There are a lot of people who listen in different ways, but when I find my station, it’s locked in. I like progressive talk radio, I like KBAC because there are something like 6,000 songs in the catalog when a lot of your other contemporary stations have more like 600. I like the avant-garde of KBAC. Y’know, when I drive down the road, I don’t want satellite radio, I want what people are listening to in their communities. [Former KBAC Station Manager] Ira [Gordon] put it best when he said ‘Radio is the general store.’

It’s sitting around, chatting it up, catching up with what’s going on.

It’s so important we don’t lose that in our radio. Think about it—I got to program two hours of whatever I called funk every Friday. You have no idea in the radio world how rare that is.

What’s going to happen for you next?

Ohhhh. I think that’s the hardest question. I turned 60—I know, it’s horrifying!—and I think that, for me, it’s been in increments of 20 years that I have to reinvent myself, and I do feel like it’s time to reinvent myself and do something different. I know you’re probably going to laugh at me, but I really want to get into quilting. It’s something that my grandmother did, and it’s avant-garde with the colors and patterns they’re using, so I’d like to put my foot in that arena.

I would honestly like separation between my work life and personal life.

I would like my hobbies and things I’m interested in. It’s just trying to make a little space to sort of open up and see what kind of ideas I can come up with. I’ve gotta make a vision board, too. I’m working on that. I’d just like my Friday nights back where I can feel like everybody else. But I’m going to miss it.

And, hey, you never know—I might pop in. The most important thing is handing it over to someone who loves it as much as you do.

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WARM MEAL DISTRIBUTION DeVargas Park 302 W DeVargas St. Santa Fe's Who I Am Foundation will be distributing a warm meal to those in need— and volunteers are needed!

Arrive at 4 pm if you can lend a hand to help the needy.

4:30-6 pm, free

FILM VETERANS DAY FILM SCREENINGS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Special Veterans day screening event with director Q&As. Three films in the line up: Solutions, Ben and On Black Mountain.

12:30-8:30 pm, $0-$40

MUSIC AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Piano champ Al Rogers will lull you into a state of calmness and musical joy. This is Rogers territory here, folks—we here at SFR are big fans. He makes wine tasting all the more sweeter (or more dry, depending on you).

6:30-9:30 pm, free GRACE KELLY: TAOS JAZZ FESTIVAL Taos Center for the Arts 133 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte, Taos (575) 758-2052 Saxophonist and vocalist Grace Kelly has a huge Taos following.

This is her seventh consecutive appearance in the festival, and in the meantime she tours the world and performs with many jazz greats. Masks and proof of vax required.

5:30 pm, $24-$30 NAVY BAND OF THE SOUTHWEST Santa Fe Plaza 100 Santa Fe Trail Mayor Alan Webber and members of the City Council are slated to open the show and welcome the community. The band from San Diego will perform popular patriotic music.

2-3:30 pm, free

THEATER OTHER DESERT CITIES NM Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 An old-guard family has secrets revealed on Christmas—good emotional prep for the upcoming holiday season.

7:30 pm, $25 THE THANKSGIVING PLAY Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 A play following four whitepresenting adults making a politically correct first Thanksgiving play.

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FRI/12 ART ALONG FOR THE RIDE Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 A solo-exhibition by Rachel Taylor, who focuses on reworking, organizing, transforming and animating the surface of a painting with careful consideration of illusionistic depth.

5-7 pm, free ILONA PACHLER: UNRAVELED 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 An ephemeral installation expressing a female interpretation of classical Greek mythologies and monsters.

Noon-5pm, Thursday-Saturday, free MOTH WINGS AND PAGODAS: OPENING RECEPTION Ellsworth Gallery 215 E Palace Ave. (505) 989-7900 In Peter Harrington imaginings, reality recedes into a surreal elementalism, where natural and man-made forms rest into one another, flanked by an enveloping blue. Surrealism, folks. It’ll trip you up.

5-7 pm, free THREE ON THE TREE | PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES Smoke the Moon 101 Marcy St., Ste. 23 Solo show by sculptor and painter Matthew Rosenquist and a group show celebrating all the cool things about transportation.

All day, free

EVENTS RECYCLE SANTA FE ART FESTIVAL Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St. recyclesantafe.org Recycled material art market, exhibits, make-and-take and more! The 22nd Annual Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival is back. Friday night kicks off with a 6 pm screening of the documentary New Mexicans Taking Action on Plastic Waste (see SFR picks, page 17).

5-9 pm, $5

FOOD FRED HARVEY FOODIE DINNER & AUCTION La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511 Top New Mexico chefs recreate (or reimagine) classic dishes and cocktails served in Fred Harvey’s restaurants and dining cars.

5 pm, $150

MUSIC BLUE RHAPSODY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Piano duo bringing you the usual Fenix bliss. What’s cuter than a husband-wife duo at the piano? Don’t answer that.

6:30-9:30 pm, free GEORGE CABLES TRIO: TAOS JAZZ FEST Taos Center for the Arts 133 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte (575) 758-2052 Pianist George Cables has long been known as one of the classiest sidemen in jazz, with a style that’s harmonically engaging, powerful and lyrical as well. Cables will be joined by Essiet Essiet on bass and drummer, Jerome Jennings.

9 pm, $24-$30 THE BOB FOX SEXTET SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Bobby Shew on trumpet, Alex Murzyn is our saxophone sassmaster while Chris Buckholz triumphs on the trombone, Terry Burns burns on bass and Fox himself will devour the drums. Presented by Santa Fe Music Collective.

5 pm, $25-$30

THEATER OTHER DESERT CITIES NM Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Spoiler alert: There’s some drama on stage. Maybe between the actors too, who knows?

7:30 pm, $25 THE THANKSGIVING PLAY Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Second spoiler alert: There will also be some drama in this show. Maybe some laughs too.

Theater is a mystery of reception, where your soul can be lost and found and purified, so say we all.

7:30-9 pm, $15-$25

Archaeological Symposium November 12 and 13 on Facebook Live

Join multiple historians, curators, archaeologists and special guests for two days of a deep dive into the history of the La Cienega/La Cineguilla region and beyond. Celebrate the start of Las Golondrinas’ 50th Anniversary!

All sessions free on Facebook Live or on the Las Golondrinas YouTube Channel. Go to Golondrinas.org for more information.

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WORKSHOP MODERN BUDDHIST MEDITATIONS: REMAINING CONFIDENT IN THE FACE OF CRITICISM Santa Fe Community Yoga Center 826 Camino de Monte Rey (505) 282-5293 All levels of experience and background are welcome. Meet like-minded people and enjoy these teachings. Yes we can use difficult, painful and frustrating situations to be become more compassionate and more confident. And so we discover solutions that we’d otherwise overlook. Grow spiritually with Buddha’s wisdom and meditation techniques.

10-11:30 am, $10

November 12th - December 12th 2021 Please join us for an Artist Reception on Friday at 6pm!

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SAT/13 ART DANCE OF THE QUANTUM POET: PART II Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fría St. (928) 308-0319 Take a Journey with Rev. Aaron Jones into the quantum digital textures of the mind. Bring your poetry for a poetry slam with prizes! Dances of the Quantum Poet: Part II is a show that takes you straight into the poetry and imagery of the digital platforms of quantum mechanics, art, fractals and Raspberry Pi programmed LED lights.

5-9 pm, free THE PLAYFUL SIDE OF LIFE Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Highway 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450 From artist and humorist Roger Evans: Unique animal drawings and woodworks are on display. Evans believes that we all need to experience the playful side of life in response to current events. Some of his animal drawings are from experience while others are pure fantasy.

All day, free

BOOKS/LECTURES A NIGHT OF WILD CARDS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Have you been touched by the Wild Card? Spend an evening with authors George R.R. Martin, Melinda Snodgrass and John Jos Miller as they speak about the late Victor Milan and his upcoming Turn of the Cards in Trade Paperback, and Death Draws Five. Milan was a pioneer in libertarian science fiction, which is a thing.

4-7 pm, $5

EVENTS 2ND ANNUAL GLOBAL CRANIOSACRAL SUMMIT Online permancraniosacral.com Learn about how craniosacral therapy helps brain health through this online event hosted by Tijeras’ Peirsman CranioSacral Academy.

Craniosacral therapy is a gentle hands-on technique that regulates the central nervous system. Don’t know what that is but your medical-science vibes are tingling? We feel that.

10 am-4 pm, $108 ARTWALK SANTA FE CHOMP Food Hall 505 Cerrillos Road artwalksantafe.com Join peeps for the 7th ArtWalk Santa Fe, featuring 35+ artists, food from the CHOMP food hall and live music. Come shop for your holiday gifts and support our local emerging artist scene.

In partnership with CHOMP and Paseo Pottery.

Noon-4 pm, free

BRAKE LIGHT CLINIC Sweeney Elementary School 501 Airport Road Santa Fe Mutual Aid partners up with Democratic Socialists of America to change brake lights for free. You can come and just check if your lights are out too.

10 am, free CARE PACKAGE DISTRIBUTION AND COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP NM Workforce Connections 301 W DeVargas St. A care package distribution of essential necessities to those in need. Plus, a litter pick-up!

Perfect for people who are good people or people looking to train in becoming good people.

10 am, free CRANKSGIVING Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678 Madcap scavenger hunt! Pedal to find the ingredients for a quirky holiday dinner from local stores and bike shops. All items collected will be donated to help feed the hungry of northern New Mexico. All ages and abilities are welcome! Bring a bike, a lock and a bag.

10 am, $15-$20 GUN BUYBACK Santa Fe Municipal Courthouse 2511 Camino Entrada A safe surrender event facilitated by New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence (NMPGV) and no information is retained on the participant turning in the firearms. Participants can turn in as many firearms as they like; they must be unloaded, but in working condition. SFPD personnel will assist with conducting a National Crime Information Center (NCIC) inquiry on the surrendered firearms to ensure they aren’t stolen. Stealing is bad.

9 am-noon, free RECYCLE SANTA FE ART FESTIVAL Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St. (505) 955-6590 Day 2, and it’s getting crazy! Join the fun with make-and-take recycled art activities. (see SFR picks, page 17) 9 am-5 pm, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET The West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 North of the water tower, all your fine art and homemade arts and crafts dreams come true. Get yourself some mugs, some toys for the kiddos and maybe a woven tapestry or two? It’s your life, friends.

8 am-2 pm, free SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Go buy some artisan bread and forget about carbs for a while.

Seriously. Do it. Eat bread, be happy.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC DJANGO FESTIVAL ALLSTARS: TAOS JAZZ FESTIVAL Taos Center for the Arts 133 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte (575) 758-2052 Direct from France– dazzling gypsy jazz from the Django Festival Allstars! These five virtuoso players celebrate the music of legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt and famed jazz violinist Stephan Grapelli.

8 pm, $24-$30 CHATTER SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Traditional and contemporary chamber music that include a readingby a local poet. J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Oboe and Strings in A major, BWV 1055 and György Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto will guide you.

10:30 am, $5-$16 AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Spend your evening floating on a wave of piano joy, where you may feel the stress of capitalism crumble away (does not transfer to paying your wine bill).

6:30-9:30 pm, free

THEATER OTHER DESERT CITIES NM Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Maybe if you see this show you’ll have one of those creative inspiration moments like in the movies, you know what we mean?

7:30 pm, $25 THE THANKSGIVING PLAY Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 From Larissa Fasthorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation), exploring some folk’s attempts to be politically correct for the upcoming holiday.

7:30-9 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP GRAND REVEAL: LIFE DRAWING AT CCA Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 As the title suggests. Bring your own supplies (only dry materials) and those portraying the human body skills sharpened. Required proof of vaccination.

10 am-1 pm, $10 SOMETHING WONDERFUL RIGHT AWAY Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive, Ste. A santafeimprov.com Ready to try something new?

Want to have fun in a supportive atmosphere? Join Santa Fe Improv for one (or all) of their new drop-in classes with Gail Trotter. No pressure to be funny or theatrical.

10 am-noon, $20

SUN/14 BOOKS/LECTURES GARY WORTH MOODY AND KAYLOCK SELLERS: POETRY READING Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 Sellers is a writer, poet and teacher. He’s also a forest fire fighting cowboy and a contractor building a town for coal miners in Siberia. You know, like all of us do. Perhaps his poetry will explain his life directions.

5 pm, free

EVENTS CHART OPENING EVENT: COMMUNITY GATHERING, MEET THE TEAM Frenchy's Field Osage Ave. and Agua Fría St. The program will consist of a brief, collective homage to the Santa Fe River followed by a meet-and-greet with the CHART team. This event is free and open to the public. Bring a small bowl or mug and a full water bottle to the event in order to participate in a short ceremony honoring the Santa Fe River.

2-4 pm, free KEVIN SPENCER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Kevin Spencer combines storytelling, stage magic and audience participation (so fair warning here) in a sensory-friendly performance designed for audiences of all abilities.

2 pm, free RECYCLE SANTA FE ART FESTIVAL Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St. (505) 955-6590 Get wild and build some cardboard art and stuff. (see SFR picks, page 17) 10 am-5 pm, free

FILM THE ROAD TO SANTA FE: A CONVERGENCE OF CULTURES New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200 This film explores the pivotal role the Santa Fe Trail played in the westward expansion of the United States.

2 pm, $7-$12

FOOD VEGAN INDIAN POP-UP Backside of Santa Fe Convention Center 119 S Federal Place bit.ly/3Ccty3L Pre-order only! Check out the link to see what’s availible this week. To place your order(s) DM or call/text: (505) 310-1420.

Noon-2 pm, free

MUSIC DJ TRUE JUSTICE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Once primarily known as a West Coast outing and themed by a savvy looking elf, this winter jaunt has transcended regions and brought ice cold performances from Portland to Santa Fe. Includes the Outstanding Citizens Collective, Bandit Lordz and more. (see cover story, page 12) 7-11 pm, $10-$12 DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 No dreams wither and no tears are shed when under the musical sway of Montgomery.

No promises if he goes into Andrew Lloyd Webber’s greatest hits... that gets us, man.

6:30-9:30 pm, free HOW WE GOT OVER: REFLECTIONS ON OUR JOURNEY THROUGH POETRY & SONG First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544 Singer-songwriter Jasmin Williams teams up with Poet Laureate of Santa Fe Darryl Wellington present poetry and songs of information and inspiration from the African American experience.

2-4 pm, free LIFE & LIFE: TAOS JAZZ FESTIVAL Taos Center for the Arts 133 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte, Taos (575) 758-2052 This moving and musical documentary is the story of musician and murderer Reggie Austin. Combining breathtaking musical performances, rare vérité from inside San Quentin prison, and scenes of raw emotion adjusting to life outside.

Please register in advance.

2:30 pm, free

THEATER OTHER DESERT CITIES NM Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 So many desert cities, so little time, such high gas prices.

2 pm, $25 THE THANKSGIVING PLAY Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Please eat before you come, they’ll probably spend a lot of time talking about food.

2 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP BELLYREENA BELLYDANCE Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503 Dance your heart out, and see how much your body can stretch and shake.

1-2 pm, $15

THE CALENDAR CONFIDENCE THROUGH HORSEMANSHIP CLINIC Loal Tucker Horsemanship 48 Cerro Alto Road, Lamy bjmrkitty@gmail.com A half-day clinic with Loal Tucker, of Loal Tucker Horsemanship. Pre-registration is mandatory for participation. Spectators are welcome! Suitable for all skill levels. Email the above address for more info.

10 am-2 pm, free

MON/15 DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Classic big-band swing. Bring CDC vax card on your first visit.

7 pm, $3-$8

EVENTS QUEER NIGHT La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Welcoming queer identifying people and allies to celebrate and strengthen Santa Fe queer communities. Also drinks.

5-11 pm, free

MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Local hero Doug Montgomery, we stan you and your piano. Get yourself a calm, quiet and fine evening with the trilling keys reminding you that music, in fact, rocks.

6:30-9:30 pm, free

TUE/16 BOOKS/LECTURES NEW MOONS ANTHOLOGY: CONTEMPORARY WRITING

BY NORTH AMERICAN MUSLIMS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 Contributor and local Santa Fe poet, Fatima van Hattum, will read in-store, while fellow contributors, poets Faisal Mohyuddin and Sham-e-Ali Nayeem will appear via Zoom (see SFR picks, page 17).

6 pm, free

FOOD 6TH ANNUAL WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP LUNCHEON La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 988-3279 Food and conversation with panelists discussing successful women who built their careers and what inspires them.

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Poetry Workshops and the World New Santa Fe poet laureate critiques poetry workshops

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n the first line of her poem “Poetry,” Marianne Moore writes “I, too, dislike it.”

Yes, that’s right—one of the great modernist poems begins by castigating poetry.

Moore goes on to detail in witty metaphors her case that poetry can be oppressive and pompous. Poetry at its best, however, is striking and penetrative. Poetry that’s truly important, Moore writes, maintains “a place for the genuine.” But poetry that doesn’t aspire to be both creative and genuine, or as we might colloquially put it, “real,” is plain useless.

Every criticism Moore implicitly launches against poetry has been applied over the past several decades to poetry workshops.

According to Michael McGurl in his book, The Program Era, creative writing programs as we know them began after World War II, precipitating a change from a culture that emphasized how “those who can’t write, teach writing,” to a culture where learning how to write and finding a career path revolved around MFA programs. Today, there are hundreds of creative writing programs, some particularly Ivy League and prestigious. MFA programs created the template for today’s traditional methodology, which I will call simply the “workshop.” If you write at all, it’s fairly inevitable you have been in a workshop built on practices and committed to tastes inherited from someplace like the Iowa School of Letters, as its teachers approached writing in the 1950s.

The problem is that, in addition to all the other ways that the country is patriarchal and oppressive, who goes to college in America is class-tiered. And who is admitted to prestigious schools and MFA programs is socially, ethnically and racially stratified. It raises severe questions pertaining to how well (or badly) the workshop model has served everyone. Yet it’s influenced everything. Most notably, the traditional workshop standardized a heavily edited style of writing that enhanced the acceptance of minimalism, the so-called streamlined read that appealed to the predominantly white American middle class while demeaning oral traditions, dialect writing or certain kinds of experimentalism.

The situation may have improved somewhat by the 1990s, by which time the master-teacher model had relaxed somewhat to the teacher and consensus model (the

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teacher provides the primary critique, but students can also offer comments and criticisms); nevertheless, I remember MFA programs were a hot topic at the time, and the essays contesting their value left no doubt: Many students hated them—especially, yet hardly exclusively, minority students. Workshops, they discovered, sometimes numbered among traumatizing experiences.

The first poetry workshop I stumbled inside, sometime in the 1990s, baffled me.

I barely understood an arcane vocabulary including words like “caesura,” “parataxis” and “end stop,” and no one bothered to explain them. Blind obedience to the jargon appeared more important than achieving general understanding. Everyone else seemed accustomed to the artificiality. Or were they? The number of contentious anti-workshop essays being published at the time implied many students were faking it.

I remember having numerous conversations with workshoppers who were vexed whenever the teacher blithely commented, “Does everybody understand that?” when referring to some phrase like “the MyersBriggs test,” yet didn’t spend a minute unpacking it. The assumption being that white upper middle class references were normative. I tried on a few occasions to contextualize my writing within ethnic experiences.

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Not a good move. I was accused of “explaining my work.” The workshop experience at its worst resembled a culturally biased IQ test.

Issues like these have reached a climactic point. And they’re addressed head-on in a recent book by educator Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom.

Chavez lays out her blueprint for a new kind of workshop she practices with undergraduates and high school students; she forthrightly states that workshops have been destructive experiences, especially for writers of color.

A prime example is the tradition of “silencing.” It’s nothing more than the expectation writers have to sit in silence while the class critiques them. But for writers who face oppression in their daily lives, it’s a mind game, comparable to being handcuffed and arrested. Silencing, Chavez writes, “is to assume a position of passivity.

Writers of color must sit silently and take it. ‘It’ being the often tactless, likely longwinded, and predictably ignorant, critique of their peers and the workshops’ leader.”

Should we abandon silencing? No doubt many scholars defend it as a means of training creative writers to be critical, objective—or tough. So how do all the arguments add up? I say Chavez has written an important book, if only for revealing how the workshop model is a choice. It is one variable among many. It is possible to completely abandon the teacher model by having all participants lead the critiques dealing with their own work.

Think about it.

You can stick to the traditional model (which I don’t suggest).

You can follow Chavez’s model.

You can pick and choose among the many techniques.

Or you can discover your own.

Chavez has done something important by highlighting that the workshop itself is a creative process. Like the creative process, the workshop may need some rigor, yet it is killed and rendered mechanical by too much.

And so I hope to facilitate a workshop myself. I begin with the assumption that the workshop requires both guidance and participation, but also that it is meant as a learning exchange which, at its highest level, is an experiment in creating an egalitarian aesthetic. Which means? I enter the classroom on the first day, hoping you want to speak to me, and, from my perspective, wanting to discuss your poetry is an extension of wanting to talk to you.

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The Rebirth of Root 66 Vegetarians and vegans rejoice!

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ith new ownership and a refreshed menu, nearly everyone should be able to find something delicious at Root 66 Vegan Café.

As I sat down to talk with owner Jack Egber, a guy who looks like a cross between Santa Claus and the guitarist from Lit (complete with braided goatee) pulled up in his pickup truck, a valid question emerged as we watched customers continue to arrive well after the cafe had already closed for the weekend: Is there even any food left?

When most Santa Feans think of the famed Route 66 highway, plant-based food is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. The Egber family is changing that as they reboot Root 66 Café (1704 Lena St., (505) 780-8249, Monday-Thursday 10 am-3 pm; Friday 9 am-3 pm), a vegan deli and bakery nestled amongst the eclectic offerings on Midtown’s Lena Street.

Jack recently purchased the eatery with his parents, Andrew and Julie (who run the business side of things), from its previous owner after it closed during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Today, Egber’s endless vegan ingenuity and self-taught baking skills are changing the story quickly.

Root 66 had its grand re-opening a little over a month ago, complete with a new vision and new menu. Monday through Thursday, you’ll find a menu consisting of classic deli favorites, like an egg salad sandwich ($12),

which Egber has updated for modern times with silky tofu and seasoned to perfection with black salt and a flavor profile enough to fool even the most devout carnivore. While the egg salad is a great introductory point, Egber says the chickpea version ($12) has been gaining popularity, perhaps because of the inclusion of fresh celery, carrots and cranberries that fit the fall season. Couscous with currants, pine nuts and parsley ($4) is also an enjoyable dish, and the blueberries were extra plump in a delightful mixed berry salad ($4) when I visited.

Egber bases menu selections around his true passion, which is baking. It’s why the café was bustling when I stopped in on a Friday afternoon, the day each week that Root 66 focuses solely on baked goods sold under the moniker Jack’s Magic Bakery. The menu includes items like rugelach, babka buns, Jerusalem Bagels and Jack’s Magic Challah—the very bread that started Egber on his journey.

Originally from Los Angeles and vegan for many years, he’d originally wondered what foods he’d miss most by going plantbased. The only real answer was challah, a longtime tradition in the family. As Egber experimented with his recipe, a road trip to New

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Mexico inspired him to attend the Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center in the Tusas Mountains west of Taos.

During his time at Vallecitos, Egber worked with head chef Katie Gall to hone his trade, and, when given the opportunity, whipped out his recipe for vegan challah on Friday nights. It proved an instant hit, and when a satisfied retreater hired him to cater a dinner for 40 people based on the challah alone, Egber knew he really had something.

Initially envisioning a catering business or food truck, he instead took a front-ofhouse role at Santa Fe’s Chocolate Maven restaurant and bakery, learning another side of the restaurant business. When the moment came, though, the Egber family pounced at the opportunity to purchase Root 66 and keep the café’s vegan origins intact.

One of the best parts of the revived café is Egber’s commitment to keeping a rotating menu of flavors for the baked goods. Given that my visit came shortly before Halloween, the challah came in a pumpkin variety for the day.

While planned as a onetime offering, it has already proven popular enough to become a fall menu staple,

and I say that as someone who gave up on the overdone gourd fad years ago. The delightfully fluffy bread is also available in a bite-sized variety ($6).

Challah may be the introduction for Jack’s Magic Bakery and Root 66, but the rest of the bakery menu deserves just as much attention. The rugelach ($2.75 each, two for $5, or six for $12) is available in chocolate, with each layer superbly crunchy and just the right amount of sweet. My favorite, however, would have to be the Jerusalem Bagels ($5), which are nothing like traditional bagels and instead come in an oblong shape and covered in a tahini sesame crunch; they will surely satisfy anyone who knows a good bagel requires a crisp outer layer.

Root 66 Café’s desserts are also a must, with house-made peppermint patties ($3 each or six for $15) leading the way. Cool from the fridge with a delicious confectionary center, these things are enormous, and you’ll never want another York version again. Plus, for all of the veg-head New Mexicans who can no longer eat grandma’s lard-laden biscochitos, Jack’s Magic Bakery has a buttery (but, like, not really butter) vegan variety ($3 each or six for $15). With the holidays coming soon, it would be wise to grab either dessert— and they’re apparently selling out fast.

Not to leave our furry four-legged friends out of the party, Root 66 also features the Magic Barkery, inspired by family dog Coco.

With baked treats featuring only a few ingredients, they are also another hot seller, and Egber notes there are a lot of owners with picky pooches saying the pint-sized cookies are the only thing their problem child will eat.

Root 66 is a welcomed addition to the small plant-based scene in Santa Fe, and vegans and vegetarians will rejoice at having such a stellar option for baked goods and deli offerings. For those who have been hesitant to try the lifestyle, Root 66 owner/chef/baker Jack here’s a great first impression.

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Any cat fan worth their salt surely knows all about Victorian-era British artist Louis Wain and his work in normalizing felines as house pets. What they might not know, however, is that an entirely too-precious biopic has arrived from Amazon Studios, and it doesn’t feel quite so charming as much as it does forced and faux-precious.

Benedict Cumberbatch plays the titular Wain, the only man in a family of women who, in late 1800-something, is trapped within the social constructs of the day: Men do the work, women get married—nobody’s allowed to love anyone they actually love because of, like, society, man. In his youth, Wain illustrated for some prestigious London newspaper.

He also met one Emily Richardson (here played

by Claire Foy), a governess hired for his sisters for whom Wain fell hard and married. This was apparently unheard of at the time because Richardson was poor and 10 years Wain’s senior. Still, they fell in love, got married, moved outside of London and spent a bunch of happy years hanging out with their cat Peter (ownership of whom we also learn was apparently weird). Sad stuff happens later, but we don’t need to spoil it.

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As The French Dispatch, a publication dedicated to the happenings of the fictional town of Ennui, France, shuts its doors for the final time, the staff highlight three memorable stories for their lastever edition. The resulting anthologies follow an imprisoned artist (Benicio del Toro) exploited for one last hurrah, a French student (Timothée Chalamet) concocting a student revolution and a food writer (Jeffrey Wright) in the midst of a hostage negotiation.

Within Wes Anderson’s familiar pastel whimsy, a sense of melancholy lurks under the surface that makes his other films work—a kind of nostalgia that’s hard to peg. One might also question whether something as superlative as Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel can ever be topped. The French Dispatch answers such a question: Not just yet.

There will be the requisite Andersonheads who find the typical elementary-school-art-project vibes to be beyond reproach, particularly as they come from one of the last regularly funded auteurs in Hollywood. But The French Dispatch only proves there’s a little life behind the camera; it’ll likely (and rightfully) go down as one of Anderson’s lesser works (see Darjeeling Limited).

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Where writer and director Will Sharpe (Giri/ Haji) succeeds in style, ambiance and tone, he falters in Electrical Life’s almost unbearable levels of quirk. Cumberbatch’s turn as the eccentric Wain particularly stupefies and succeeds only in consistently reminding us we’re watching an actor act. This guy’s a champ at playing dicks and serious dicks and powerful dicks and impatient dicks who learn to dick a little less. As Wain, he feels like an actor who read about weirdos and did a little fidgeting. Against Foy, who perhaps represents the only real charm in the film, the performance feels exhausting. Same goes for Andrea Riseborough as Wain’s sister Caroline, whose only role seems to be nay-saying and overly-enunciated whispering. Sharpe, it seems, wanted to illustrate a Louis-Wain-against-the-world sort of thing, but everything around him feels so utterly hopeless and lifeless (save the always brilliant Toby Jones as

locale it ought to be, whereas Anderson’s settings usually become characters unto themselves. By the end, you likely won’t know Ennui any better than when you were first introduced. If these tales hold any particular meaning, it’s so subtle as to be easily missed. That isn’t to say you can’t have fun with empty whimsy—just note there’s a feeling like a once hidden museum now packed with tourist types who make it harder for the longtime visitors to enjoy.

This means an unusual lack of personality within the screenplay from Anderson, like a trés-expensive impersonation of an old man recalling a foggy version of his teenage years. The usual check marks are there, though, from the same Anderson-y cast members like Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Adrian Brody and Tilda Swinton, to the symmetry of a subject and the snippy dialogue.

That’s just what it is, though—a checklist of expectations so we can, presumably, move along to the actual passion project (fingers crossed for the next one). Calling the town Ennui was right on the money. (Riley Gardner) CCA and Violet Crown, R, 108 min

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the newspaper magnate) that it’s very hard to care.

Pepper in melodramatic speeches about solitude and sadness delivered in stilted fashion, some baffling surface level representations of mental illness and no shortage of cute, and there you have it. Oh, but it’s not all bad. Wain’s art was truly bizarre and hysterical, and one could hardly hate a film that so prominently casts such handsome cats. Still, Electrical Life is niche and tedious and ultimately becomes another funny-lite British period piece for anglophiles and any captive people in their lives. Shoutout to Utopia’s Adeel Akhtar and his small role, though. He rules.

er-known Los Angeles proto-rockers Sparks, and he’s already back on his bullshit with the decidedly darker (and fiction-forward) Last Night in Soho.

Here we follow Eloise (or Ellie; Thomasin McKenzie of Jojo Rabbit fame), a young art student with a sad past and a ’60s obsession who seemingly has the power to see dead people as she prepares for fashion school at a prestigious London university. Ellie’s a bit of a hayseed, and leaves the womblike countryside of Cornwall for the tragically disconnected big city that her mother—who killed herself ages ago, mind you—coveted as well. Once there, Ellie can’t fit in, but nightly visions (or dreams, maybe) paint a picture of the glitz and glamor of London’s 1960s club scene and the magnetic Sandy (Anya Taylor-Joy).

Sandy’s a would-be singer who falls in with just the shittiest men (including beloved Doctor Who star Matt Smith, who is perfectly scuzzy here) who then turn her wide-eyed naivete and dreams into a dangling fame carrot as she descends into a world of prostitution and isolation. Ellie exists in-between someplace, sometimes embodying Sandy, other times being forced to observe from a dreamlike mirror world from which she can’t help. It’s gorgeous then it’s sad—then a bit of both as our heroine fears she’ll be taken for insane should she try and find justice for Sandy in the here-and-now.

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maker to tackle such unfunny material, but Soho stumbles in its pacing, reveals and final moments of payoff. Right up until the third act, find a gritty vision of the seedy underbelly of stardom doled out across the colorful palette of someone’s idealized version of ’60s-era London. As the color literally drains from the world and from Eloise herself, creepy dealings unearth themselves in a sordid remembrance of horrors all too real. Pity, then, that Wright hedges his bets with an ill-advised morethan-one-side-to-the story moment. Oh, sure, the best cinematic villains of late seem to convince audiences their deeds aren’t so unreasonable, but the other side in this case is abusive men who, frankly, often deserve what’s coming to them.

Cinema darling Taylor-Joy is just fine as both the upbeat and lifeless versions of Sandy, but this is McKenzie’s movie and she does not disappoint in any version of her character, be it the sheltered bumpkin, the confident designer or the terrified kid in over her head.

If there’s a message to be found, though, it’s muddied, and the twist toward the end is telegraphed so early on that cinephiles might feel deflated. Nevertheless, Last Night in Soho is compelling—a twisted reminder that idealism and reality are only ever at odds, sometimes to terrifying results. Oh, and, as always, Wright’s soundtrack, here replete with ’60s gems, is absolutely spot-on. (ADV) Violet Crown, R, 116 min

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Week of November 10th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): For much of her life, Aries poet Mary Ruefle enjoyed imagining that polar bears and penguins “grew up together playing side by side on the ice, sharing the same vista, bits of blubber, and innocent lore.” But one day, her illusions were shattered. In a science journal, she discovered that there are no penguins in the far north and no bears in the far south. I bring this to your attention, Aries, because the coming weeks will be a good time to correct misimpressions you’ve held for a while—even as far back as childhood. Joyfully modernize your understanding of how the world works.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You could soon reach a new level of mastery in an aptitude described by author Banana Yoshimoto. She wrote, “Once you’ve recognized your own limits, you’ve raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you’re closer to the real you.” I hope her words inspire you, Libra. Your assignment is to seek a liberating breakthrough by identifying who you will never be and what you will never do. If you do it right— with an eager, open mind—it will be fun and interesting and empowering.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Actor Elizabeth Taylor described her odd rhythm with actor James Dean.

Occasionally, they’d stay awake till 3 am as he regaled her with poignant details about his life. But the next day, Dean would act like he and Taylor were strangers—as if, in Taylor’s words, “he’d given away or revealed too much of himself.” It would take a few days before he’d be friendly again. To those of us who study the nature of intimacy, this is a classic phenomenon. For many people, taking a risk to get closer can be scary. Keep this in mind during the coming weeks, Taurus. There’ll be great potential to deepen your connection with dear allies, but you may have to deal with both your and their skittishness about it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There are many different kinds of smiles. Four hundred muscles are involved in making a wide variety of expressions. Researchers have identified a specific type, dubbed the “affiliation smile,” as having the power to restore trust between two people. It’s soothing, respectful, and compassionate. I recommend you use it abundantly in the near future—along with other conciliatory behavior. You’re in a favorable phase to repair relationships that have been damaged by distrust or weakened by any other factor. (More info: tinyurl.com/HealingSmiles)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio theologian Eugene Peterson cleared up a mystery about the nature of mystery. He wrote, “Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.” Yes! At least sometimes, mystery can be a cause 1 2 3 4 for celebration, a delightful opening into a beautiful unknown that’s pregnant with possibility. It may bring 13be an inspiring riddle, abundance, not frustration. It may not a debilitating doubt. Everything I just said is important for you to keep in mind right17 now.

18 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 2017, Richard 20 Thaler won the Nobel Prize for Economics.

His specialty: 21 researching how unreasonable behavior affects the financial world. When he discovered that this23 great 24 honor had been bestowed on him, he joked that he planned to spend the award money “as irrationally as 27your 28 possible.” I propose we make him role model for the near future, Sagittarius. Your irrational, nonrational, 34 and trans-rational intuitions can 33 fix distortions caused by the overly analytical and hyper-logical approaches of you and your allies.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Neurotic” and “neurosis” are old-fashioned words. Psychotherapists no longer 42 use them in analyzing their patients. The terms are still useful, though, in my opinion. Most 45 of us 46 are at 47least partly neurotic—that is to say, we don’t always adapt as well as we could to life’s constantly changing circumCANCER (June 21-July 22): According to feminist cosstances. We find it challenging to50outgrow our habitual 51 mologists Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor, “Night, to patterns, and we fall short of fulfilling the magnificent ancient people, was not an ‘absence of light’ or a negadestines we’re capable of. Author 54Kenneth Tynan had 55 tive darkness, but a powerful source of energy and inspi- this insight: “A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know ration. At night the cosmos reveals herself in her vastyou are keeping.” I bring this to your attention, 61 ness, the earth opens to moisture and germination under Capricorn, because you now have extra power to adapt moonlight, and the magnetic serpentine current stirs to changing circumstances, outgrow habitual patterns, itself in the underground waters.” I bring these thoughts and uncover unknown secrets—thereby 64 diminishing to your attention, fellow Cancerian, because we’re in the your neuroses. season when we are likely to be extra creative: as days 67 grow shorter and nights longer. We Crabs thrive in the AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Author Darin Stevenson darkness. We regenerate ourselves and are visited by wrote the following poetic declaration: “’No one can give fresh insights about what Sjöö and Mor call “the great you the lightning-medicine,’ say the people who cannot cosmic dance in which everything participates: the give the lightning medicine.” How do you interpret his movement of the celestial bodies, the pulse of tides, the statement? Here’s what I think. “Lightning medicine” circulation of blood and sap in animals and plants.” may be a metaphorical reference to a special talent that some people have for healing or inspiring or awakening LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your heart has its own brain: a their fellow humans. It could mean an ingenious quality “heart brain.” It’s composed of neurons similar to the neurons in your head’s brain. Your heart brain communi- in a person that enables them to reveal surprising truths cates via your vagus nerve with your hypothalamus, thal- or alternative perspectives. I am bringing this up, Aquarius, because I suspect you now have an enhanced amus, medulla, amygdala, and cerebral cortex. In this capacity to obtain lightning medicine in the coming way, it gives your body helpful instructions. I suspect it weeks. I hope you will corral it and use it even if you are will be extra strong in the coming weeks. That’s why I told there is no such thing as lightning medicine. (PS: suggest you call on your heart brain to perform a lot of “Lightning medicine” will fuel your ability to accomplish the magic it specializes in: enhancing emotional intellidifficult feats.) gence, cultivating empathy, invoking deep feelings, and transforming pain.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The superb fairywren gives VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): How did naturalist Charles its chicks lessons on how to sing when they are still inside Darwin become a skillful thinker who changed the world their eggs. This is a useful metaphor for you in the coming with his theory of evolution? An important factor, accord- months. Although you have not yet been entirely “born” ing to businessperson Charlie Munger: “He always gave into the next big plot twist of your hero’s journey, you are priority attention to evidence tending to disconfirm what- already learning what you’ll need to know once you do ever cherished and hard-won theory he already had.” He arrive in your new story. It will be helpful to become conloved to be proved wrong! It helped him refine his ideas scious of these clues and cues from the future. Tune in to so they more closely corresponded to the truth about them at the edges of your awareness. reality. I invite you to enjoy using this method in the comHomework: For your homework, write an essay on ing weeks, Virgo. You could become even smarter than you already are as you wield Darwin’s rigorous approach “What Rob Brezsny Is Most Ignorant About.”

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