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Homesteading Santa Feans double down during COVID-19

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Staying home in effort to reduce the spread and risk of exposure to COVID-19 is important. It is equally important that our community seek medical care when necessary.

Quedarse en casa en un esfuerzo por reducir la expansión y el riesgo de exposición a COVID-19 es importante. Es igualmente importante que nuestra comunidad busque atención médica cuando sea necesario.

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Navigating Uncertain Seas Joint city/county Santa Fe CONNECT program aims to link people to help

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efore COVID-19 hit, Ana Morelos’ job was all about direct contact with her clients.

On an average day, she would meet with at least four different expectant mothers to support them through their pregnancies. On one visit, for example, she might pick up a pregnant mother with a toddler and drive them to a specialist’s office for an appointment.

In the doctor’s office, Morelos might act as an interpreter for the woman, watch her other child during the appointment, and help her navigate payment options and scheduling for other appointments if necessary. Back at her office, Morelos takes on the role of case manager for each of her patients, helping them connect to other services such as The Life Link for housing or La Familia Medical Center for other health care needs.

Now, she does as much of this work as she can over the phone, but still meets with mothers when it’s necessary.

Morelos is a “navigator” for the Las Cumbres Community Services Que Cute Healthy Babies program, which helps pregnant mothers in rough situations get the pre-natal care they need. The women she works with face

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incredible odds. Most are living in poverty, many are homeless, some struggle with addiction or with unsafe domestic relationships. The goal of the program is to help lower the percentage of babies born with low birth weights in New Mexico— which is significantly higher than the national average—by giving the moms who are most at risk extra support.

Morelos’ position at Las Cumbres is paid for by the Santa Fe County CONNECT program, which funded the Que Cute initiative as one of its first pilot projects in 2015.

CONNECT is a network of community organizations and agencies aimed at helping Santa Feans meet basic needs such as housing, food security and mental health care. “Navigators” like Morelos run projects targeted towards specific community needs and act as case managers for people

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seeking services at those organizations, or refer them to more appropriate partners in the network.

CONNECT was started by the county with only a handful of programs. More have joined the network each year, and the city joined as a funder in July 2019 and brought on an additional 20 navigators from 13 community organizations.

Now the network has over 100 navigators, according to the city, who work for organizations that include the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center, the City of Santa Fe Veteran Alliance, Kitchen Angels and the Recovery Center.

In response to COVID-19, CONNECT has ramped up. This month, CONNECT launched a public portal on the city and county websites that makes it easy for residents to seek assistance (santafenm. gov/connect).

A simple online form asks a person for their name, contact info and the kind of help they are looking for. The city and county community services departments have hired new program care coordinators who use that information to link the individual with the appropriate service.

This is the first time the program has a public interface that allows people to es-

sentially “refer themselves into the program,” says Kyra Ochoa, director of the city Community Services Department.

Ochoa says the program is already seeing “a huge spike” in people needing help. Since the public portal launched on April 15, the program has received 43 applications through the new platform alone. In all of 2019, the program served 963 people.

In March, the city allocated $255,000 to COVID-19 emergency projects including CONNECT. Officials report $80,000 has already been spent, some of which went to setting up the new emergency shelter at Midtown campus. The Life Link tells SFR it has received $50,000 from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund to help people pay rent. Half its referrals have come through CONNECT. The funds available through CONNECT are “flexible,” which means that organizations can use them at their discretion to meet the most pressing needs. That kind of funding structure is particularly important now, says Ochoa, because it means an organization can help people pay for immediate needs directly, such as paying for a trip to the mechanic or a phone bill.

But this funding structure is what has distinguished CONNECT from the beginning, says Morelos, because it has allowed her to craft a program that meets the needs she sees in the community rather than trying to build a program to fit into the requirements of a grant.

“It’s about supporting the community from the bottom up,” she says.

It’s also an example of how technology can be used to streamline care.

All CONNECT service providers are linked into a database that makes it simple for navigators to share basic personal information— with permission from the client— each time they make a referral to another organization in the system.

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Don’t Drink the Hand Sanitizer Distilleries get into the hand sanitizer business during COVID-19

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ndrew Lane stands in Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery’s dark, quiet taproom as voices drift in from the distillery just next door. He’s the head brewer at Tumbleroot in the times before COVID-19—but like other distillery employees in the state, he is now in charge of making hand sanitizer.

Tumbleroot started producing hand sanitizer around the beginning of April, but the planning process began as soon as stay-at-home orders came down from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in midMarch and businesses were forced to close. Almost all of Tumbleroot’s business—its taprooms and sales of alcohol to local bars— disappeared.

And, of course, the mad rush on hand sanitizer and toilet paper in all of the grocery stores and pharmacies pushed Santa Fe distilleries to get creative with their own sanitizer recipes, based on guidelines released by the World Health Organization.

“Essentially as soon as the lockdown happened we started ordering the supplies we needed to do it,” Lane says. “It’s just that everyone is trying to do it at the same time.”

There are some differences between the typical hand sanitizer you would buy at the store and the distillery concoctions: The latter smells like a straight shot of grain alcohol and has the consistency of one, too. (Pro tip: Don’t drink it.) There’s also no gel in Tumbleroot’s sanitizer or in the version marketed by Santa Fe Spirits across town.

“Usually sanitizer has aloe vera, it’s usually a gel, but in this case, this is the basic requirements for hand sanitizer, so it’s essentially 80% alcohol, a little bit of glycerin and a little bit of hydrogen peroxide,” Lane says. “It’s very thin…but it will disinfect surfaces and your hands.”

Tumbleroot offers two sizes: a 32-ounce spray bottle ($15) and a 6-ounce bottle ($5). Thousands of

both sizes have sold in the last few weeks.

The brewery supplies several businesses and organizations around town as well, including the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department.

Santa Fe Spirits was also hard-hit by the stay-at-home orders and the closing of its two tasting rooms, according to owner Colin Keegan. Keegan’s head distiller, too, is now his “full-time hand sanitizer expert,” he says.

Hand sanitizer unexpectedly became the company’s main source of income and what is keeping all of the employees on the payroll. The team at Santa Fe Spirits also came up with a simple, no-fluff combination of ingredients: 80% alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, glycerin and purified water.

Similar to Tumbleroot, the hand product at Santa Fe Spirits is thin since it lacks gel. It can take some getting used to, but it does the job of killing germs (and, hopefully, COVID-19).

Keegan and other distillery owners are vying for the ingredients to make hand sanitizer as other businesses also rush

Santa Fe Spirits owner Colin Keegan poses for a social distance portrait with the distillery’s newest products.

to do so. Both Tumbleroot and Santa Fe Spirits report difficulty finding the right bottles and caps to continue producing sanitizer.

“We can get this now, but we can’t get this, so we have to wait and get that and then that’s out again,” Lane says of trying to wrangle all of the ingredients at one time.

Keegan is worried about what could happen later in the summer in terms of revenue for his business. He wants to lobby New Mexico officials to allow alcohol distributors to sell booze online orders so he can ship around the country as hand sanitizer sales level off. A federal Paycheck Protection Program loan also

came through to keep the business afloat, as well as some curbside sales of alcohol.

But for now, local governments and large businesses are buying large amounts of sanitizer product from Keegan. The City of Santa Fe bought 500 gallons and Los Alamos National Laboratories bought 100, Keegan says. He is also selling sanitizer to FedEx, UPS and the Santa Fe County Fire Department.

Santa Fe Spirits has the largest variety of sizes: 4-ounce squeeze bottle ($4), 32-ounce spray bottle ($15), half-gallon refill ($18) and one gallon refill ($30).

There is also a 750 ml ($25) Expedition 151 high-proof vodka sanitizer (Again, do not drink, it’s easy to mix up with their other vodka bottle).

“This is keeping us alive at the moment…because our only way to sell alcohol is through a distributor, that’s the legal system,” Keegan says.

With local liquor stores closed and distribution networks jammed up, that’s not happening very well right now for either Tumbleroot or Santa Fe Spirits.

“There’s only a few places we can sell our spirits to that are still open like Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods—the bigger chains are selling the larger-brand products,” he says. “For someone like us, we’re not in those big stores.”

Email bisbee@tumblerootbrewing.com to order hand sanitizer and pick up curbside once a week from Tumbleroot.

Get ordering instructions for Santa Fe Spirits email todd@santafespirits.com.

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Paul Groetzinger, aka Feathericci of the illustrious band D Numbers, has a pretty sweet deal going.

Roughly once a week, Groetzinger bakes bread, setting aside one loaf to place in the bed of a neighbor’s truck. In exchange, the neighbor leaves him a dozen eggs. The contact-free barter has been in place for roughly the same amount of time as New Mexico’s stay-at-home public health order.

Groetzinger, his wife Cara Levick and their children were uniquely positioned for the order, anyway. They’ve already built up a bit of a utopia just outside town on their 5 acres, and Groetzinger says it’s been a godsend.

“The bulk of [our garden] is in four raised beds that are 4-by-8 feet, but they’re all kind of snug next to each other with a little space between them, and I’d say the total space that takes up is about 12-by-20 feet,” Groetzinger tells SFR. “Even if you have a little yard, you could do four raised beds that produce a ton of food.”

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Wright co-tended a garden a few years back. Since then, he’s learned a lot—including best bets for the New Mexican brand of soil—and says this year he’s planted radishes, kale, collard greens, spinach and chard. Nearby, a perennial strawberry plant has provided fruit like clockwork each year, and he’s also working with cucumbers, hot peppers and tomatoes; one bed is dedicated to herbs.

“We’ve had some other fruit production, too,” he says. “Two cherry trees, two peach trees and an apple tree—although, if you’re not a homeowner, they take a lot of space so it’s like, do I want to plant and take care of a tree that’s ultimately my landlord’s?”

Groetzinger’s experience and gardening activities speak to a larger homesteading trend popularized over the last decade by people looking for a simpler way of life and the knowledge of where their food comes from. It’s not the self-suffiency that marked the term two centuries ago, but more of a movement away from relieance on commercial systems.

Groetzinger grew up in a gardening family and his mother, who lives near Taos, maintains a garden to this day. She also keeps bees. Still, he says, it isn’t like she was a professional, nor did his early forays into the practice involve much more than flowers and aesthetic plants.

For the most part, he says, his knowledge grew from personal experimentation, advice from friends and other local gardener types and the internet.

“There’s a website called highdesertgardening.com that actually spells out some really specific ideas, because we’re in an interesting climate with a pretty

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short growing season—late frosts in the spring, early frosts in the fall,” he explains.

“But during the grow period, the sun is so potent that if you can be motivated to put something in the ground, to learn a little bit about what plants are important... what’s the expression? Make hay while the sun is shining?”

Groetzinger says he has friends who are already harvesting from hoop and greenhouses despite the mythical and oft-agreed upon May 15 planting date

that New Mexican gardeners seem to regard as scripture (more on that later). He describes a large and inclusive gardening scene across the city and state crammed with folks who love to help others and love to get people growing their own food. In the summer, he says, roughly half his family’s vegetables are homegrown; during the COVID-19 pandemic, however—with the extra time at home—they’re aiming for 80% of their produce to come from the backyard garden.

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Homesteading Santa Feans double down during COVID-19

Soon the raised beds at Paul Groetzinger’s house will explode with life—and no shortage of fresh, delicious food options.

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Meanwhile, down West Alameda Street beyond Casa Solana and up in the hills, gardener Jason Reed is expecting a large harvest this year as well. An avid convert since 2016, Reed says he simply woke up one morning thinking about how he needed to buy seeds.

“I’ve been a vegetarian since I was about 22,” he tells SFR, “so I’ve always been into eating healthier, but seeing the stuff on social media—people talking about food systems and the food supply and fast food and GMOs, I thought, if I grew my own, I’d know exactly what I was eating.”

Reed works as the head engineer at Frogville Studios, the recording outfit dedicated mostly to Santa Fe’s Americana set. He lives in an RV on land that belongs to studio owner John Treadwell.

“There were a bunch of empty pots just sitting there,” he says. “I knew I needed to use those.”

Unlike Groetzinger’s more sprawling land, Reed’s use of containers illustrates a handy point: One might just as easily start growing their own food in pots rather than beds. Eventually, he’ll move them into one of his three raised beds, but Reed says you won’t need a ton of space if you’re a beginner. He creates his own starters in old dog food cans, for example, and this year, he’s growing carrots, beets, radishes, salad greens, cilantro, parsley, chives, scallions, tomatoes, cucumbers and more.

“That’s all the stuff that can handle the cold, and there are still frosts ahead,”

The only logical thing to do is to just grow as much food as we possibly can. There was a time when everybody had a garden, and it’s not that hard to do, we’ve just traded away our self-sufficiency for convenience.

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he cautions, citing May 15 as his goal for putting more delicate plants outside.

“Last year, though, was a pretty cold spring, and I think it was almost June by the time I planted my tomatoes.”

This year, once Reed gets his plants out of containers and into the earth, he predicts a healthy yield in the warmer months. Of particular interest are his cucumbers, which he grows vertically on a piece of lattice attached to the side of his RV. “They seem to love it,” he says. “You have to train them a little, but once it gets going, they cover the whole lattice, and the great thing is your cucumbers aren’t in the dirt and it’s a total space-saver.”

Annually, Reed hasn’t kept precise track of how much his garden yields, though he’s canned or preserved dozens of quarts’ worth of tomatoes, sweet relish, pickled green beans and beets, cucumbers and more. Everything fresh has proved more than ample.

“This last fall I still had tomatoes from 2017 as I was canning tomatoes from 2018,” he says, “and I give away stuff to my friends all the time.”

As for how the veggies taste?

“Pretty much everybody I give to is like ‘You should go into business!’” Reed says. “And I say no. Then it wouldn’t be special.”

Reed says he doesn’t see his gardening behavior changing in a post-COVID world; his infrastructure is basically set and he now knows what to expect. Still, when it comes to advice for people considering a foray into growing their own food, he says, “The only logical thing to do is to just grow as much food as we possibly can. There was a time when everybody had a garden, and it’s not that hard to do,

Jason Reed’s gardening practice evolved over a quick four years, and he now yields so much produce he doesn’t know what to do with it all.

we’ve just traded away our self-sufficiency for convenience. But I’d say you’ll love it—and you’ll attract butterflies and bees and it’s just great. It makes you feel alive.”

In the Tierra Contenta neighborhood, Sage Sommer already knows a thing or two about attracting bees.

“It wasn’t a decision I made one morning, it was…my father is notoriously hard to shop for, and when my husband drew his name one year for Christmas—and my dad had vaguely mentioned he was interested in beekeeping,” she says. “We were like, on a whim, ‘Maybe we’ll get him a hive.’”

Sommer’s dad took to it immediately.

“He went crazy,” she says. “He loved it.”

Both her father and mother became certified apiarists within that first year, purchasing a queen online and eventually splitting a quickly growing hive in two; Sommer’s family took the part that split off.

“And I’ve been learning from my parents how to do it since,” she says. “I’ve been traditionally way more into gardening than beekeeping, but it’s been a really amazing and symbiotic relationship between my bees and my garden.”

Her already notable vegetable yields, she noticed, grew larger once the bees moved in. Similarly, she says, other pollinators started moving into her family’s small backyard, including critters she’d never seen before (and for which

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The official ballot for the Best of Santa Fe 2020

2020

is online FRIDAY, MAY 1 !

NOMINATED! Local Living Best Business: Cerrillos Road

Del Norte Credit Union Enterprise Bank & Trust Jambo Cafe SOAP Refill Station Stephen’s A Consignment Gallery The Pantry

Best Business: DOWNTOWN Doodlet’s Enterprise Bank & Trust KESHi the Zuni Connection La Fonda on the Plaza Sub Rosa Mercantile The Cat North

Best Business: ELDORADO Arable Eldorado Country Pet Eldorado Dental – Haley Ritchey, DDS Eldorado Skin Care Upper Crust Pizza Utopia

Best Business: RAILYARD/ GUADALUPE DISTRICT REI Santa Fe Art Classes Santa Fe Artists Market Santa Fe Farmers Market Second Street Brewery at The Railyard Violet Crown Santa Fe

Best Business: SILER ROAD CORRIDOR

Big Jo True Value Hardware Java Joe’s & Groovy Bean Coffee Roasters Kitchenality Meow Wolf Second Street Brewery – Rufina Taproom The Food Depot

Best Business: SOUTHSIDE Beer Creek Brewing Co. Joe’s Dining Plaza Cafe Southside The Cat South The Pantry Dos The Ranch House

Best Business: St. Michael’s Drive/ Triangle District

Del Norte Credit Union Enterprise Bank & Trust Grey Matter Float Spa, Infrared Sauna, Massage, & CBD Boutique Santa Fe Athletic Co. State Employees Credit Union The Candyman Strings & Things

Best Business: Westside/ Alameda/Agua Fria Agua Fria Nursery HoneyMoon Brewery: Hard Kombucha Brewery La Montañita Co-op Food Market Lost Padre Records The Critters & Me Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

Best Hiking/Biking/ Walking Trail Aspen Vista Trail Atalaya Dale Ball Trails Galisteo Basin Preserve Santa Fe River Trail Winsor Trail

Best Nonprofit

El Rancho de las Golondrinas Girls, Inc of Santa Fe Kitchen Angels The Cancer Foundation for New Mexico The Food Depot The Mountain Center

Best Nonprofit for Animals

Assistance Dogs of the West Española Humane Felines & Friends New Mexico Kindred Spirits Animal Sanctuary Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society The Horse Shelter

Best Nonprofit for the Environment New Energy Economy New Mexico Environmental Law Center Santa Fe Conservation Trust Santa Fe Watershed Association Sierra Club WildEarth Guardians

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Best Park

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Best Roofing Company

Best Tattoo Shop

Best Pilates Studio

Best Place to Work

Best Summer Program

Best Financial Institution

Best Solar Energy Company

Best Veterinarian

Best Self-Defense Classes

Fort Marcy Park Frank S Ortiz Dog Park Frenchy’s Field/Santa Fe River Trail Patrick Smith Park Santa Fe Railyard Park SWAN Park CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center Del Norte Credit Union ElleWell Enterprise Bank & Trust Santa Fe Opera Tesuque Casino

Best Public Servant Councilor Renee Villarreal Councilor Signe Lindell Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham Mayor Alan Webber Rep. Brian Egolf US Rep. Ben Ray Lujan

Best Tour Business Downtown Walking Tours, NM History Museum La Fonda on the Plaza Loretto Line Tours Santa Fe Ghost and History Tours Santa Fe Mountain Adventures Wander New Mexico Food Tours

Kids

Best Children’s Store Bee Hive Books Doodlet’s Double Take Indigo Baby Moon Rabbit Toys Toyopolis

Best Elementary School Carlos Gilbert Elementary School La Mariposa Montessori School May Center For Learning Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences Santa Fe Waldorf School Turquoise Trail Elementary

Best High School

Desert Academy Early College Opportunities High School Mandela International Magnet School New Mexico School for the Arts Santa Fe High School Santa Fe Waldorf School

Best Kid-Friendly Restaurant

Counter Culture Cowgirl BBQ Harry’s Roadhouse Plaza Cafe Southside The Pantry Dos Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

Best Kids Dental Practice Adventure Dental, Vision & Orthodontics Daniel A Borrero, DDS Dentistry For Kids Healthy Smiles Happy Teeth – Patricia Peck, DDS Just For Grins Pediatric Dentistry Pueblo De Ninos Dental

Best Middle School

Desert Academy at Santa Fe, International Baccalaureate World School Mandela International Magnet School May Center For Learning Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences Santa Fe Waldorf School Turquoise Trail Charter School

Best Nonprofit for Youth El Rancho de las Golondrinas Girls, Inc of Santa Fe NDI New Mexico Reading Quest Santa Fe Children’s Museum Upstart Crows of Santa Fe

Best Orthodontic Practice

Adventure Dental, Vision & Orthodontics Daniel Meyers Orthodontics Dentistry For Kids Dr. Clarice Pick DDS, PC Kellam Orthodontics Rio Grande Orthodontics

Best Pediatric Practice Adventure Dental, Vision & Orthodontics Christus St. Vincent Arroyo Chamiso Pediatrics Just For Grins Pediatric Dentistry Presbyterian Pediatrics Sastun Family Medicine Southwest CARE Center

Gentle Nudge Pre-School La Mariposa Montessori School La Petite Academy of Santa Fe May Center for Learning Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences Santa Fe Waldorf School Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Fe/Del Norte Dragonfly Art Studio For Kids and Adults May Center for Learning Reading Quest Santa Fe Waldorf School The Candyman Strings & Things

Best Youth Arts Program Dragonfly Art Studio For Kids and Adults Lightning Boy Foundation NDI New Mexico The Candyman Strings & Things Upstart Crows of Santa Fe Wise Fool New Mexico

Best Youth Fitness Program

Capitol Gymnastics Academy Genoveva Chavez Community Center Jeff Speakman Kenpo 5.0 Santa Fe NDI New Mexico Santa Fe Climbing Center Wise Fool New Mexico

Home & Business Services Best Art Frame Shop

Fine Art Framers Frontier Frames Gavin Collier & Co Custom Framing Goldleaf Framemakers of Santa Fe Justin’s Frame Designs Wilkinson & Co. Fine Art Framers

Best Auto Detailing/ Car Wash

Bryan’s Auto Detail Eclipse Window Tinting & Auto Detailing Oilstop Drive Thru Oil Change & Car Wash Speedy Shine Car Wash Squeaky Clean Car Wash The Santa Fe Auto Detail Inc

Best Body Shop

Auto Right Collision Repair Custom Craft Auto Collision Don Juan’s Certified Collision care Extreme Twist Collision Mena’s Coachworks Top Gun Collision

Best Bicycle Repair Bike N Sport Chainbreaker Collective Mellow Velo rob and charlie’s Sirius Cycles The Broken Spoke

Best Car Repair

Auto Angel Custom Craft Auto Collision Cutting Edge Automotive Mike’s Garage Toy Auto Man Toyotech

Best Cleaning Service Advanced Green Cleaning Green Choice Cleaning, LLC La Unica Dry Cleaners Martinizing GreenEarth Cleaning Merry Maids NAM Services

Best Computer and IT Services

4Leet | Business IT Services of Santa Fe Capitol Computer & Network Solutions City Different IT Computer Solutions, LLC Crumbacher Dotfoil Computers Santa Fe Computer Works

Best Electrician

Alive Electric Inc Allied Electric Inc City Different Electric LLC Electrical Services G.L. Runer Electric Gorman Lightning Protection and Electric

Best Electronics Repair 4Leet | Business IT Services of Santa Fe Dotfoil Computers Geek Squad Made In The Shade - Lighting, Lampshades, Home Decor & Lighting Repair MAKE Santa Fe Synergy Tech

Avalon Trust Co Del Norte Credit Union – Investment Services Enterprise Bank and Trust Fidelity Investments State Employees Credit Union UBS Financial Services Inc. Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Enterprise Bank & Trust Guadalupe Credit Union Nusenda Credit Union State Employees Credit Union

Best General Contractor Dream Casa Builders Home pro SANTA fe Palo Santo Designs LLC Sarcon Construction Corporation Tierra Concepts, Inc. Woods Design Builders

Best Insurance Agent

James Armijo – State Farm Insurance Agent Bryan Doerner – State Farm Insurance Agent Silas T Garcia Agency & Associates LLC Stephen Gillespie – State Farm Insurance Agent Ortega Insurance Services Garrett Seawright – State Farm Insurance Agent

Best Interior Design

BUILT Design French & French Interiors Metamorphosis Home Furnishings and Design Reside Home Samuel Design Group Violante & Rochford Interiors

Best Landscaping Company

Cassidy’s Landscaping Clemens & Associates, Inc. Desert Rose Landscape & Maintenance Dunn Right Landscaping Northern New Mexico Gardens Very Good Tree Service

Best Law Firm

Clark, Jones & Pennington, LLC Egolf + Ferlic + Martinez + Harwood LLC Felker Ish Ritchie & Geer PA Katz Herdman MacGillivray & Fullerton PC Rothstein Donatelli Hughes Sommer, Udall, Sutin, Hardwick & Hyatt, PA

Best Lender

Del Norte Credit Union Enterprise Bank & Trust Guadalupe Credit Union Homewise Nusenda Credit Union State Employees Credit Union

Best Lodging

AdobeStar Properties Drury Plaza Hotel in Santa Fe Hotel Santa Fe, Hacienda & Spa Inn & Spa at Loretto La Fonda on the Plaza Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi

Best Mortgage Lender Del Norte Credit Union Enterprise Bank & Trust Gateway Mortgage Group Homewise Nusenda Credit Union State Employees Credit Union

Best Movers

Atta-Boy Movers, LLC Delancey Street Foundation Exceptional Moving & More Two Men and a Truck Wilson Transfer & Storage Zen Movers LLC

Best Pest Control

Bugman Pest Control, Inc. Critter Control of Santa Fe Eloy’s Pest Control New Mexico Pest Control Preventive Pest Control Truly Nolen Pest & Termite Control

Best Plumbing Company Anytime Plumbing Aranda’s Plumbing, Heating and Supply Drysdale Plumbing & Heating Rich Duran Plumbing & Heating San Morcol Mechanical Contractors, Inc. TLC Plumbing Heating Cooling

Best Real Estate Agency Barker Realty Coldwell Banker Trails West Realty Ltd. Leyba Real Estate LLC Santa Fe Properties Sotheby’s International Realty Valdez & Associates

Alegre Roofing & Construction Brian McPartlon Roofing Mike Lopez Roofing LLC Rosas Roofing Salcido’s Roofing Co Southwest Spray Foam & Roofing

Affordable Solar AMENERGY, INC Eldorado Solar, Santa Fe Gorman Lightning Protection and Electric Positive Energy Solar Sol Luna Solar

Best Storage Facility A-1 Self Storage A-Poco Self Storage Extra Space Storage Santa Fe Self Storage Wagon Self Storage Wilson Transfer & Storage

Best Tire Shop

Amigo Tire & Auto Big O Tires Discount Tire Garcia Tire LLC Performance Tire & Wheels Quinn Tire and Automotive

Personal & Pet Services Best Aesthetic Treatment Alkemesta Beauty Bar Dare to Bare Wax Den Eldorado Skin Care Mist Skin Care Santa Fe Lash & Beauty Bar Shunay Mineral Cosmetics And Skin Care

Best Barber

Dino’s Drive-In BarberShop Evolution Hair Design Klean Cut Kenny The Buzz The Center Barber & Beauty Shop TNA Hair Salon

Best Facial

Alkemesta Beauty Bar Eldorado Skin Care Mist Skin Care Santa Fe Lash & Beauty Bar Shunay Mineral Cosmetics and Skin Care U Day Spa

Best Hair Salon

Color Me Crazy Hair Salon Evolution Hair Design Liz’s Santa Fe Hair Studio Rock Paper Scissor SalonSpa The Color Bar TNA Hair Salon

Best Nail Salon Eldorado Skin Care Nail Experts Nail Time Santa Fe Lash & Beauty Bar Serenity Nail Spa The Color Bar

Best Pet Daycare

Barks & Bubbles Paws Plaza Pet Suites Inc. Boarding, Grooming, Daycare Santa Fe Tails Wags Zoomies Dog Daycare and Resort

Best Pet Grooming

Barks & Bubbles Companions Grooming Paws Plaza Talia’s Pet Grooming Turquoise Tails Zoomies Dog Daycare and Resort

Best Pet Store

Eldorado Country Pet Marty’s Meals, Inc. PetSmart Teca Tu A Pawsworthy Pet Emporium The Critters & Me Tullivers Pet Food Emporium

Best Spa

Eldorado Skin Care Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resort & Spa Sunrise Springs Spa Resort Ten Thousand Waves U Day Spa Wo’ P’in Spa

Dawn’s Custom Tattoo Four Star Tattoo Ikigai Tattoo & Body Piercing The Dungeon Tina’s Ink Ulibarri Ink & Art Gallery

Cameron Veterinary Clinic Cedarwood Veterinary Clinic Gruda Veterinary Hospital Smith Veterinary Hospital Thaw Animal Hospital VCA Arrighetti Animal Hospital

HEALTH, WELLNESS & FITNESS Best Acupuncturist

Ancient Wisdom Healing Arts – Acupuncture & Herbal Clinic Dr. Fiquet Hanna Duckworth ElleWell Gina Morishige, Sol Wellness Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine We The People Community Acupuncture

Best Alternative Healing Practitioner/Practice Amata Chiropractic ElleWell Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Santa Fe Salt Cave Sol Wellness, LLC The Healing House of New Mexico

Best Cannabis Dispensary Best Daze CG - Santa Fe Fruit of the Earth Organics Minerva Canna Santa Fe, NM | Dispensary New Mexicann Natural Medicine Sacred Garden Santa Fe

Best CBD Shop

Camba CBD Boutique Fruit of the Earth Organics Grey Matter Float Spa, Infrared Sauna, Massage, & CBD Boutique Hemp Apotheke Sacred Wellness Smoke N Body

Best Chiropractor

Back to Health Wellness Center Connerly Physical Medicine Group ElleWell Infinite Health Center Integrative Chiropractic Winds of Choice Chiropractic Center

Best Dental Practice

Divine Dental of Santa Fe Dr. Virginia Sharpe | Sharpe Dental Studio Eldorado Dental – Haley Ritchey, DDS Patrick McQuitty, DDS Milagro Dental Santa Fe Modern Dentistry and Orthodontics

Best Fitness Classes Fiteness Bootcamp Santa Fe Orangetheory Fitness Railyard Fitness Santa Fe Athletic Co. Santa Fe Community College Undisputed Fitness

Best Health Care

CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center La Familia Medical Center Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center Railyard Urgent Care Southwest CARE Center

Best Massage

ElleWell High Desert Healthcare & Massage Massage Envy Santa Fe Excellent Massage Sol Wellness, LLC Ten Thousand Waves

Best Mental Health Care Provider Mesa Vista Wellness of New Mexico Presbyterian Medical Services – Santa Fe Family Wellness Center Sam Shaffer, PhD: Psychotherapy & Career Counseling Santa Fe Supportive Therapy, LLC Solace Crisis Treatment Center The Mountain Center

Best Physical Therapy Active Recovery LLC Allcare Physical Therapy CHRISTUS St. Vincent Sports Medicine & Therapy Services CorePhysio Eldorado Physical Therapy Therapy Solutions LLC

Core Movement Collective Pilates Bodies Pilates Santa Fe PilateZone Santa Fe Community College Studio Nia Santa Fe

10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Santa Fe ANK - Santa Fe Muay Thai Gracie Barra Santa Fe Jeff Speakman Kenpo 5.0 Santa Fe Resolve Undisputed Fitness

Best Small Gym Dynamic Fitness Fitness Bootcamp Santa Fe Orangetheory Fitness Railyard Fitness Santa Fe Athletic Co. Undisputed Fitness

Best Urgent Care

Aspen Medical Center Urgent Care and Primary Care CHRISTUS St. Vincent Urgent Care CVS Minute Clinic Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center Railyard Urgent Care Ultimed Urgent Medical Care

Best Yoga Studio ElleWell Santa Fe Community College Santa Fe Community Yoga Studio Nia Up Yoga Santa Fe YogaSource

SHOPPING

Best Bike Shop Bike N Sport Mellow Velo rob and charlie’s Sincere Cycles Sirius Cycles The Broken Spoke

Best Bookstore

Ark Books Big Adventure Comics Book Mountain Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse Garcia Street Books Op.cit books

Best Car Dealer

Capitol Ford Lincoln, LLC Great Little Cars Honda Subaru of Santa Fe Lexus of Santa Fe Lithia Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Fiat of Santa Fe Toyota of Santa Fe

Best Consignment

Act 2 Art.i.fact Congeries Consignment Double Take Stephen’s A Consignment Gallery The Beat

Best Floral Shop All The Pretty Flowers Amanda’s Flowers Artichokes & Pomegranates Barton’s Flowers FORAGED Rodeo Plaza Flowers & Gifts

Best Garden/Plant Supplies Agua Fria Nursery High Country Gardens Newman’s Nursery Payne’s Nurseries Plants of the Southwest WATERWISE Gardening, LLC

Best Gift Store

Doodlet’s Gift & Gourmet KESHi the Zuni Connection Nambé Trading Post – Gallery Sub Rosa Mercantile Swallow’s Nest – El Rancho de las Golondrinas

Best Grocery Store

Kaune’s Neighborhood Market La Montañita Co-op Food Market –Santa Fe Market Street/Albertson’s Sprouts Farmers Market Trader Joe’s Whole Foods Market

Best Hardware Store Ace Hardware of Santa Fe Big Jo True Value Hardware Eldorado True Value Lowe’s Home Improvement The Home Depot

Best Head Shop

A1 Smoke Shop Best Daze Concrete Jungle Smoke Shop Fruit of the Earth Organics New Mexicann Red House

Best Interior Home Store Design Warehouse K.O’NEAL Metamorphosis Home Furnishings and Design Reside Home Stephen’s A Consignment Gallery The Raven Fine Consignments

Best Jewelry Store KESHi the Zuni Connection Nambé Trading Post – Gallery Santa Fe Goldworks Tresa Vorenberg Goldsmiths Wind River Trading Company World of Bohemia

Best Locally Made Food Product Barrio Brinery Black Mesa Winery Heidi’s Raspberry Farm Kakawa Chocolate House Posa’s El Merendero Tamale Factory & Restaurant Sage Bakehouse

Best Mattress Shop

American Home Mattress Center – Santa Fe Ashley HomeStore Denver Mattress Company Mattress Firm Sachi Organics Sleep & Dream Luxury Mattress Store

Best Men’s Store

Corsini Double Take Lancaster York Gentlemen’s Apparel Red River Mercantile Standard and Strange Stephen’s A Consignment Gallery

Best Optical Shop

Accent Vision Specialists Botwin Eye Group / Oculus Optical Eye Associates of New Mexico Ojo Optique Quintana Optical Ultimate Eyecare Santa Fe

Best Shoe Store

City Shoe & Boot Repair Goler Fine Imported Shoes On Your Feet Street Feet The Running Hub Wind River Trading Company

Best Specialty Food/ Cooking Store Gift & Gourmet Kaune’s Neighborhood Market Kitchenality Las Cosas Kitchen Shoppe Santa Fe Olive Oil Santa Fe School of Cooking

Best Women’s Clothing Bodhi Bazaar Get It Together Sign of the Pampered Maiden Spirit Clothing Utopia WearAbouts

Best Western Wear Back At the Ranch Big R Stores Boot Barn Double Take Kowboyz Lucchese Bootmaker

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Best Art Collective Alas de Agua Art School and Space Antieau Gallery Meow Wolf Sage Mesa Collective Santa Fe Artists Market Strangers Collective

Best Band

Fun Adixx John Francis and the Poor Clares Nosotros Ron Crowder Band Shake Alert Sister Mary Mayhem

Best Bar

Cowgirl BBQ Del Charro Dinner for Two Secreto Lounge Tesuque Casino The Matador

Best Bartender

Patrick Gutierrez – Borrachos Raul Ortega-Hernandez – Cowgirl BBQ Jeannette Kinnaird – Santa Fe Brewing Katie Valdez – Dinner for Two Randilynn Landberg – Cowgirl BBQ Jonah Prokopiak – Matador

Best Casino

Buffalo Thunder Resort Casino Cities of Gold Casino Sandia Resort & Casino Santa Ana Star Center Santa Claran Hotel Casino Tesuque Casino

Best Dance Company Aspen Santa Fe Ballet EmiArteFlamenco NDI – New Mexico New Mexico School for the Arts Pomegranate Studios Zircus Erotique

Best Date Spot

Dinner for Two HoneyMoon Brewery: Hard Kombucha Brewery Santa Fe Opera Ten Thousand Waves Tesuque Casino Violet Crown Santa Fe

Best DJ

DJ Confused DJ D-MONIC DJ Dynamite Sol DJ Sider Raashan Ahmad Roberto Lujan

Best Gallery

Antieau Gallery Blue Rain Gallery form & concept gallery FRITZ Hecho a Mano Nedra Matteucci Galleries

Best Hotel Bar

AGAVE Restaurant & Lounge Del Charro La Fonda on the Plaza La Reina Secreto Lounge

Best Instagram Feed @cowgirlsantafe @simplysantafenm @skisantafe @haydenfold @picnic_nm @santafenmfoods

Best Lecture Series

El Rancho de Las Golondrinas Lannan Foundation Renesan Institute For Lifelong Learning Santa Fe Council on International Relations Santa Fe Institute School for Advanced Research

Best Live Music Venue Lensic Performing Arts Center Meow Wolf Santa Fe Opera Santa Fe Plaza Bandstand Tesuque Casino Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

Best Market/Festival El Rancho de las Golondrinas Harvest Festival Indian Market International Folk Art Market InterPlanetary Festival Santa Fe Artists Market Santa Fe Farmers Market

Best Movie House

Jean Cocteau Cinema Lensic Performing Arts Center Regal Santa Fe Place The Center for Contemporary Arts The Screen Violet Crown

Best Museum

El Rancho de las Golondrinas Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Museum of International Folk Art New Mexico History Museum/ Palace of the Governors Santa Fe Children’s Museum

Best Nonprofit for the Arts NDI New Mexico New Mexico School for the Arts Opera West!

Santa Fe Opera Santa Fe Playhouse Wise Fool New Mexico

Best Performing Arts Venue Lensic Performing Arts Center Santa Fe Opera Santa Fe Playhouse The Swan Theater Teatro Paraguas Wise Fool New Mexico

Best Street Musician/ Busker Half a Shipwreck Jason Youth John Dwane Johnny Lloyd Kyle Perkins Liv Orovich

Best Theater Group New Mexico School for the Arts Santa Fe Playhouse Teatro Paraguas Theater Grottesco Theater of Death Wise Fool New Mexico

FOOD & DRINK Best Artisan Chocolate Art of Chocolate/ Cacao Santa Fe chocolate and cashmere ChocolateSmith Kakawa Chocolate House Sweet Santa Fe LLC Todos Santos Chocolates

Best Asian Restaurant Chow’s Asian Bistro Izanami Restaurant Jinja Bar & Bistro Lu Lu’s Chinese Cuisine Mampuku Ramen Paper Dosa

Best Bakery

Chocolate Maven Clafoutis Dolina Bakery & Cafe Dulce Bakery & Coffee Madame Matisse Sage Bakehouse

Best Breakfast Clafoutis Dolina Harry’s Roadhouse Plaza Cafe Southside The Pantry Tia Sophia’s

Best Breakfast Burrito Baja Tacos Blake’s Lotaburger Cafe Fina El Parasol The Pantry Tia Sophia’s

Best Brunch

Café Mimosa Chocolate Maven Clafoutis Cowgirl Dolina Bakery & Cafe Tesuque Casino

Best Chile

Best Margaritas

Best Cocktails

Best New Mexican Restaurant

Atrisco Cafe & Bar Horseman’s Haven Cafe La Choza Restaurant The Pantry The Shed Restaurant Tomasita’s Borracho’s Craft Booze and Brews Coyote Cafe & Rooftop Cantina Dinner for Two Paloma Restaurant Radish & Rye Secreto Lounge Tonic

Best Coffee

35˚ NORTH COFFEE Betterday Iconik Coffee Roasters Java Joe’s Ohori’s Coffee Roasters REMIX Audio Bar

Best Dessert

Chocolate Maven Clafoutis Crepas-oh!

Dulce Bakery & Coffee Harry’s Roadhouse Paloma Restaurant

Best Fermented Food or Drink Barrio Brinery HoneyMoon Brewery: Hard Kombucha Brewery Leaf & Hive Brew Lab Patrick’s Fine Foods, Inc. Rowley Farmhouse Ales

Best Fine Dining

Coyote Cafe & Rooftop Cantina Dinner for Two Geronimo Sazón The Bull Ring The Compound Restaurant

Best Food Cart/Truck/ Stand Back Road Pizza Bang Bite El Chile Toreado Jambo Hapta Palate Santafamous Street Eats

Best Frito Pie

Chicago Dog Express Del Charro El Parasol Five & Dime General Store Kaune’s Neighborhood Market Plaza Cafe Southside

Best Happy Hour Cowgirl BBQ Dinner for Two Santa Fe Capitol Grill Secreto Lounge Tesuque Casino The Dragon Room

Best Ice Cream/Gelato/ Frozen Yogurt Baskin-Robbins Ecco Espresso and Gelato Frogurt Self-Serve Frozen Yogurt La Lecheria Downtown Paleteria Oasis Santa Fe Espresso Co. featuring Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream

Best International Cuisine India House Izanami Restaurant Jambo Cafe Mampuku Ramen Paper Dosa Sazón

Best Burger

Best Italian Restaurant

Best Chef

Best Locally Brewed Beer

Cowgirl BBQ Del Charro Santa Fe Bite Shake Foundation Tesuque Casino The Burger Stand @ Burro Alley Ahmed Obo, Jambo Cafe Kathleen Crook, Market Steer Mark Kiffin, The Compound Martin Rios, Restaurant Martin Nathan Mayes, Paloma Ruben Tanuz, Terra Encantada at the Four Seasons

Andiamo!

Cafe Grazie Il Piatto Italian Farmhouse Kitchen Ostería d’Assisi Piccolino Trattoria A Mano

Beer Creek Brewing Co. HoneyMoon Brewery: Hard Kombucha Brewery Rowley Farmhouse Ales Santa Fe Brewing Second Street Brewery Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

Del Charro Harry’s Roadhouse La Choza Restaurant Maria’s New Mexican Kitchen The Shed Restaurant Tomasita’s

Atrisco Cafe & Bar Café Castro La Choza Restaurant Maria’s New Mexican Kitchen The Shed Restaurant Tomasita’s

Best New Mexico Distillery

Dry Point Distillers Hollow Spirits Distillery KGB Spirits Santa Fe Spirits Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery Wayward Sons Distillery

Best New Mexico Winery Black Mesa Winery D.H. Lescombes Winery & Bistro Gruet Winery La Chiripada Winery Noisy Water winery Vivác Winery

Best New Restaurant Cottonwood Kitchen, Tesuque Casino Madame Matisse Mampuku Ramen Sassella Restaurant The Pantry Dos Yamas Greek Rotisserie

Best Patio

Beer Creek Brewing Co. Cowgirl BBQ Harry’s Roadhouse La Casa Sena Santacafe The Bull Ring

Best Pizza

Back Road Pizza Beer Creek Brewing Co. Il Vicino Wood Oven Pizza Pizza Centro Rooftop Pizzeria Upper Crust Pizza

Best Sushi Restaurant Izanami Restaurant Izmi Sushi Bar Kai Sushi & Dining Kohnami Japanese restaurant Masa Sushi Sushi Land East

Best Tacos

Baja Tacos Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill El Callejón El Chile Toreado El Parasol Taco Fundacion

Best Taproom

HoneyMoon Brewery: Hard Kombucha Brewery New Mexico Hard Cider Taproom Rowley Farmhouse Ales Santa Fe Brewing Second Street Brewery Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

Best Tea

Annapurna’s® World Vegetarian Café ArtfulTea Opuntia REMIX Audio Bar ReVamp Nutrition The Teahouse

Best Vegetarian

Annapurna’s® World Vegetarian Café Jambo Cafe Love Yourself Cafe Paper Dosa Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen Vinaigrette

The official ballot for the Best of Santa Fe 2020

2020

is online FRIDAY, MAY 1 !

NOMINATED! Local Living Best Business: Cerrillos Road

Del Norte Credit Union Enterprise Bank & Trust Jambo Cafe SOAP Refill Station Stephen’s A Consignment Gallery The Pantry

Best Business: DOWNTOWN Doodlet’s Enterprise Bank & Trust KESHi the Zuni Connection La Fonda on the Plaza Sub Rosa Mercantile The Cat North

Best Business: ELDORADO Arable Eldorado Country Pet Eldorado Dental – Haley Ritchey, DDS Eldorado Skin Care Upper Crust Pizza Utopia

Best Business: RAILYARD/ GUADALUPE DISTRICT REI Santa Fe Art Classes Santa Fe Artists Market Santa Fe Farmers Market Second Street Brewery at The Railyard Violet Crown Santa Fe

Best Business: SILER ROAD CORRIDOR

Big Jo True Value Hardware Java Joe’s & Groovy Bean Coffee Roasters Kitchenality Meow Wolf Second Street Brewery – Rufina Taproom The Food Depot

Best Business: SOUTHSIDE Beer Creek Brewing Co. Joe’s Dining Plaza Cafe Southside The Cat South The Pantry Dos The Ranch House

Best Business: St. Michael’s Drive/ Triangle District

Del Norte Credit Union Enterprise Bank & Trust Grey Matter Float Spa, Infrared Sauna, Massage, & CBD Boutique Santa Fe Athletic Co. State Employees Credit Union The Candyman Strings & Things

Best Business: Westside/ Alameda/Agua Fria Agua Fria Nursery HoneyMoon Brewery: Hard Kombucha Brewery La Montañita Co-op Food Market Lost Padre Records The Critters & Me Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

Best Hiking/Biking/ Walking Trail Aspen Vista Trail Atalaya Dale Ball Trails Galisteo Basin Preserve Santa Fe River Trail Winsor Trail

Best Nonprofit

El Rancho de las Golondrinas Girls, Inc of Santa Fe Kitchen Angels The Cancer Foundation for New Mexico The Food Depot The Mountain Center

Best Nonprofit for Animals

Assistance Dogs of the West Española Humane Felines & Friends New Mexico Kindred Spirits Animal Sanctuary Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society The Horse Shelter

Best Nonprofit for the Environment New Energy Economy New Mexico Environmental Law Center Santa Fe Conservation Trust Santa Fe Watershed Association Sierra Club WildEarth Guardians

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Best Park

Best Preschool

Best Financial Advisor

Best Roofing Company

Best Tattoo Shop

Best Pilates Studio

Best Place to Work

Best Summer Program

Best Financial Institution

Best Solar Energy Company

Best Veterinarian

Best Self-Defense Classes

Fort Marcy Park Frank S Ortiz Dog Park Frenchy’s Field/Santa Fe River Trail Patrick Smith Park Santa Fe Railyard Park SWAN Park CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center Del Norte Credit Union ElleWell Enterprise Bank & Trust Santa Fe Opera Tesuque Casino

Best Public Servant Councilor Renee Villarreal Councilor Signe Lindell Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham Mayor Alan Webber Rep. Brian Egolf US Rep. Ben Ray Lujan

Best Tour Business Downtown Walking Tours, NM History Museum La Fonda on the Plaza Loretto Line Tours Santa Fe Ghost and History Tours Santa Fe Mountain Adventures Wander New Mexico Food Tours

Kids

Best Children’s Store Bee Hive Books Doodlet’s Double Take Indigo Baby Moon Rabbit Toys Toyopolis

Best Elementary School Carlos Gilbert Elementary School La Mariposa Montessori School May Center For Learning Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences Santa Fe Waldorf School Turquoise Trail Elementary

Best High School

Desert Academy Early College Opportunities High School Mandela International Magnet School New Mexico School for the Arts Santa Fe High School Santa Fe Waldorf School

Best Kid-Friendly Restaurant

Counter Culture Cowgirl BBQ Harry’s Roadhouse Plaza Cafe Southside The Pantry Dos Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

Best Kids Dental Practice Adventure Dental, Vision & Orthodontics Daniel A Borrero, DDS Dentistry For Kids Healthy Smiles Happy Teeth – Patricia Peck, DDS Just For Grins Pediatric Dentistry Pueblo De Ninos Dental

Best Middle School

Desert Academy at Santa Fe, International Baccalaureate World School Mandela International Magnet School May Center For Learning Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences Santa Fe Waldorf School Turquoise Trail Charter School

Best Nonprofit for Youth El Rancho de las Golondrinas Girls, Inc of Santa Fe NDI New Mexico Reading Quest Santa Fe Children’s Museum Upstart Crows of Santa Fe

Best Orthodontic Practice

Adventure Dental, Vision & Orthodontics Daniel Meyers Orthodontics Dentistry For Kids Dr. Clarice Pick DDS, PC Kellam Orthodontics Rio Grande Orthodontics

Best Pediatric Practice Adventure Dental, Vision & Orthodontics Christus St. Vincent Arroyo Chamiso Pediatrics Just For Grins Pediatric Dentistry Presbyterian Pediatrics Sastun Family Medicine Southwest CARE Center

Gentle Nudge Pre-School La Mariposa Montessori School La Petite Academy of Santa Fe May Center for Learning Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences Santa Fe Waldorf School Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Fe/Del Norte Dragonfly Art Studio For Kids and Adults May Center for Learning Reading Quest Santa Fe Waldorf School The Candyman Strings & Things

Best Youth Arts Program Dragonfly Art Studio For Kids and Adults Lightning Boy Foundation NDI New Mexico The Candyman Strings & Things Upstart Crows of Santa Fe Wise Fool New Mexico

Best Youth Fitness Program

Capitol Gymnastics Academy Genoveva Chavez Community Center Jeff Speakman Kenpo 5.0 Santa Fe NDI New Mexico Santa Fe Climbing Center Wise Fool New Mexico

Home & Business Services Best Art Frame Shop

Fine Art Framers Frontier Frames Gavin Collier & Co Custom Framing Goldleaf Framemakers of Santa Fe Justin’s Frame Designs Wilkinson & Co. Fine Art Framers

Best Auto Detailing/ Car Wash

Bryan’s Auto Detail Eclipse Window Tinting & Auto Detailing Oilstop Drive Thru Oil Change & Car Wash Speedy Shine Car Wash Squeaky Clean Car Wash The Santa Fe Auto Detail Inc

Best Body Shop

Auto Right Collision Repair Custom Craft Auto Collision Don Juan’s Certified Collision care Extreme Twist Collision Mena’s Coachworks Top Gun Collision

Best Bicycle Repair Bike N Sport Chainbreaker Collective Mellow Velo rob and charlie’s Sirius Cycles The Broken Spoke

Best Car Repair

Auto Angel Custom Craft Auto Collision Cutting Edge Automotive Mike’s Garage Toy Auto Man Toyotech

Best Cleaning Service Advanced Green Cleaning Green Choice Cleaning, LLC La Unica Dry Cleaners Martinizing GreenEarth Cleaning Merry Maids NAM Services

Best Computer and IT Services

4Leet | Business IT Services of Santa Fe Capitol Computer & Network Solutions City Different IT Computer Solutions, LLC Crumbacher Dotfoil Computers Santa Fe Computer Works

Best Electrician

Alive Electric Inc Allied Electric Inc City Different Electric LLC Electrical Services G.L. Runer Electric Gorman Lightning Protection and Electric

Best Electronics Repair 4Leet | Business IT Services of Santa Fe Dotfoil Computers Geek Squad Made In The Shade - Lighting, Lampshades, Home Decor & Lighting Repair MAKE Santa Fe Synergy Tech

Avalon Trust Co Del Norte Credit Union – Investment Services Enterprise Bank and Trust Fidelity Investments State Employees Credit Union UBS Financial Services Inc. Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Enterprise Bank & Trust Guadalupe Credit Union Nusenda Credit Union State Employees Credit Union

Best General Contractor Dream Casa Builders Home pro SANTA fe Palo Santo Designs LLC Sarcon Construction Corporation Tierra Concepts, Inc. Woods Design Builders

Best Insurance Agent

James Armijo – State Farm Insurance Agent Bryan Doerner – State Farm Insurance Agent Silas T Garcia Agency & Associates LLC Stephen Gillespie – State Farm Insurance Agent Ortega Insurance Services Garrett Seawright – State Farm Insurance Agent

Best Interior Design

BUILT Design French & French Interiors Metamorphosis Home Furnishings and Design Reside Home Samuel Design Group Violante & Rochford Interiors

Best Landscaping Company

Cassidy’s Landscaping Clemens & Associates, Inc. Desert Rose Landscape & Maintenance Dunn Right Landscaping Northern New Mexico Gardens Very Good Tree Service

Best Law Firm

Clark, Jones & Pennington, LLC Egolf + Ferlic + Martinez + Harwood LLC Felker Ish Ritchie & Geer PA Katz Herdman MacGillivray & Fullerton PC Rothstein Donatelli Hughes Sommer, Udall, Sutin, Hardwick & Hyatt, PA

Best Lender

Del Norte Credit Union Enterprise Bank & Trust Guadalupe Credit Union Homewise Nusenda Credit Union State Employees Credit Union

Best Lodging

AdobeStar Properties Drury Plaza Hotel in Santa Fe Hotel Santa Fe, Hacienda & Spa Inn & Spa at Loretto La Fonda on the Plaza Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi

Best Mortgage Lender Del Norte Credit Union Enterprise Bank & Trust Gateway Mortgage Group Homewise Nusenda Credit Union State Employees Credit Union

Best Movers

Atta-Boy Movers, LLC Delancey Street Foundation Exceptional Moving & More Two Men and a Truck Wilson Transfer & Storage Zen Movers LLC

Best Pest Control

Bugman Pest Control, Inc. Critter Control of Santa Fe Eloy’s Pest Control New Mexico Pest Control Preventive Pest Control Truly Nolen Pest & Termite Control

Best Plumbing Company Anytime Plumbing Aranda’s Plumbing, Heating and Supply Drysdale Plumbing & Heating Rich Duran Plumbing & Heating San Morcol Mechanical Contractors, Inc. TLC Plumbing Heating Cooling

Best Real Estate Agency Barker Realty Coldwell Banker Trails West Realty Ltd. Leyba Real Estate LLC Santa Fe Properties Sotheby’s International Realty Valdez & Associates

Alegre Roofing & Construction Brian McPartlon Roofing Mike Lopez Roofing LLC Rosas Roofing Salcido’s Roofing Co Southwest Spray Foam & Roofing

Affordable Solar AMENERGY, INC Eldorado Solar, Santa Fe Gorman Lightning Protection and Electric Positive Energy Solar Sol Luna Solar

Best Storage Facility A-1 Self Storage A-Poco Self Storage Extra Space Storage Santa Fe Self Storage Wagon Self Storage Wilson Transfer & Storage

Best Tire Shop

Amigo Tire & Auto Big O Tires Discount Tire Garcia Tire LLC Performance Tire & Wheels Quinn Tire and Automotive

Personal & Pet Services Best Aesthetic Treatment Alkemesta Beauty Bar Dare to Bare Wax Den Eldorado Skin Care Mist Skin Care Santa Fe Lash & Beauty Bar Shunay Mineral Cosmetics And Skin Care

Best Barber

Dino’s Drive-In BarberShop Evolution Hair Design Klean Cut Kenny The Buzz The Center Barber & Beauty Shop TNA Hair Salon

Best Facial

Alkemesta Beauty Bar Eldorado Skin Care Mist Skin Care Santa Fe Lash & Beauty Bar Shunay Mineral Cosmetics and Skin Care U Day Spa

Best Hair Salon

Color Me Crazy Hair Salon Evolution Hair Design Liz’s Santa Fe Hair Studio Rock Paper Scissor SalonSpa The Color Bar TNA Hair Salon

Best Nail Salon Eldorado Skin Care Nail Experts Nail Time Santa Fe Lash & Beauty Bar Serenity Nail Spa The Color Bar

Best Pet Daycare

Barks & Bubbles Paws Plaza Pet Suites Inc. Boarding, Grooming, Daycare Santa Fe Tails Wags Zoomies Dog Daycare and Resort

Best Pet Grooming

Barks & Bubbles Companions Grooming Paws Plaza Talia’s Pet Grooming Turquoise Tails Zoomies Dog Daycare and Resort

Best Pet Store

Eldorado Country Pet Marty’s Meals, Inc. PetSmart Teca Tu A Pawsworthy Pet Emporium The Critters & Me Tullivers Pet Food Emporium

Best Spa

Eldorado Skin Care Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resort & Spa Sunrise Springs Spa Resort Ten Thousand Waves U Day Spa Wo’ P’in Spa

Dawn’s Custom Tattoo Four Star Tattoo Ikigai Tattoo & Body Piercing The Dungeon Tina’s Ink Ulibarri Ink & Art Gallery

Cameron Veterinary Clinic Cedarwood Veterinary Clinic Gruda Veterinary Hospital Smith Veterinary Hospital Thaw Animal Hospital VCA Arrighetti Animal Hospital

HEALTH, WELLNESS & FITNESS Best Acupuncturist

Ancient Wisdom Healing Arts – Acupuncture & Herbal Clinic Dr. Fiquet Hanna Duckworth ElleWell Gina Morishige, Sol Wellness Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine We The People Community Acupuncture

Best Alternative Healing Practitioner/Practice Amata Chiropractic ElleWell Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Santa Fe Salt Cave Sol Wellness, LLC The Healing House of New Mexico

Best Cannabis Dispensary Best Daze CG - Santa Fe Fruit of the Earth Organics Minerva Canna Santa Fe, NM | Dispensary New Mexicann Natural Medicine Sacred Garden Santa Fe

Best CBD Shop

Camba CBD Boutique Fruit of the Earth Organics Grey Matter Float Spa, Infrared Sauna, Massage, & CBD Boutique Hemp Apotheke Sacred Wellness Smoke N Body

Best Chiropractor

Back to Health Wellness Center Connerly Physical Medicine Group ElleWell Infinite Health Center Integrative Chiropractic Winds of Choice Chiropractic Center

Best Dental Practice

Divine Dental of Santa Fe Dr. Virginia Sharpe | Sharpe Dental Studio Eldorado Dental – Haley Ritchey, DDS Patrick McQuitty, DDS Milagro Dental Santa Fe Modern Dentistry and Orthodontics

Best Fitness Classes Fiteness Bootcamp Santa Fe Orangetheory Fitness Railyard Fitness Santa Fe Athletic Co. Santa Fe Community College Undisputed Fitness

Best Health Care

CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center La Familia Medical Center Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center Railyard Urgent Care Southwest CARE Center

Best Massage

ElleWell High Desert Healthcare & Massage Massage Envy Santa Fe Excellent Massage Sol Wellness, LLC Ten Thousand Waves

Best Mental Health Care Provider Mesa Vista Wellness of New Mexico Presbyterian Medical Services – Santa Fe Family Wellness Center Sam Shaffer, PhD: Psychotherapy & Career Counseling Santa Fe Supportive Therapy, LLC Solace Crisis Treatment Center The Mountain Center

Best Physical Therapy Active Recovery LLC Allcare Physical Therapy CHRISTUS St. Vincent Sports Medicine & Therapy Services CorePhysio Eldorado Physical Therapy Therapy Solutions LLC

Core Movement Collective Pilates Bodies Pilates Santa Fe PilateZone Santa Fe Community College Studio Nia Santa Fe

10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Santa Fe ANK - Santa Fe Muay Thai Gracie Barra Santa Fe Jeff Speakman Kenpo 5.0 Santa Fe Resolve Undisputed Fitness

Best Small Gym Dynamic Fitness Fitness Bootcamp Santa Fe Orangetheory Fitness Railyard Fitness Santa Fe Athletic Co. Undisputed Fitness

Best Urgent Care

Aspen Medical Center Urgent Care and Primary Care CHRISTUS St. Vincent Urgent Care CVS Minute Clinic Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center Railyard Urgent Care Ultimed Urgent Medical Care

Best Yoga Studio ElleWell Santa Fe Community College Santa Fe Community Yoga Studio Nia Up Yoga Santa Fe YogaSource

SHOPPING

Best Bike Shop Bike N Sport Mellow Velo rob and charlie’s Sincere Cycles Sirius Cycles The Broken Spoke

Best Bookstore

Ark Books Big Adventure Comics Book Mountain Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse Garcia Street Books Op.cit books

Best Car Dealer

Capitol Ford Lincoln, LLC Great Little Cars Honda Subaru of Santa Fe Lexus of Santa Fe Lithia Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Fiat of Santa Fe Toyota of Santa Fe

Best Consignment

Act 2 Art.i.fact Congeries Consignment Double Take Stephen’s A Consignment Gallery The Beat

Best Floral Shop All The Pretty Flowers Amanda’s Flowers Artichokes & Pomegranates Barton’s Flowers FORAGED Rodeo Plaza Flowers & Gifts

Best Garden/Plant Supplies Agua Fria Nursery High Country Gardens Newman’s Nursery Payne’s Nurseries Plants of the Southwest WATERWISE Gardening, LLC

Best Gift Store

Doodlet’s Gift & Gourmet KESHi the Zuni Connection Nambé Trading Post – Gallery Sub Rosa Mercantile Swallow’s Nest – El Rancho de las Golondrinas

Best Grocery Store

Kaune’s Neighborhood Market La Montañita Co-op Food Market –Santa Fe Market Street/Albertson’s Sprouts Farmers Market Trader Joe’s Whole Foods Market

Best Hardware Store Ace Hardware of Santa Fe Big Jo True Value Hardware Eldorado True Value Lowe’s Home Improvement The Home Depot

Best Head Shop

A1 Smoke Shop Best Daze Concrete Jungle Smoke Shop Fruit of the Earth Organics New Mexicann Red House

Best Interior Home Store Design Warehouse K.O’NEAL Metamorphosis Home Furnishings and Design Reside Home Stephen’s A Consignment Gallery The Raven Fine Consignments

Best Jewelry Store KESHi the Zuni Connection Nambé Trading Post – Gallery Santa Fe Goldworks Tresa Vorenberg Goldsmiths Wind River Trading Company World of Bohemia

Best Locally Made Food Product Barrio Brinery Black Mesa Winery Heidi’s Raspberry Farm Kakawa Chocolate House Posa’s El Merendero Tamale Factory & Restaurant Sage Bakehouse

Best Mattress Shop

American Home Mattress Center – Santa Fe Ashley HomeStore Denver Mattress Company Mattress Firm Sachi Organics Sleep & Dream Luxury Mattress Store

Best Men’s Store

Corsini Double Take Lancaster York Gentlemen’s Apparel Red River Mercantile Standard and Strange Stephen’s A Consignment Gallery

Best Optical Shop

Accent Vision Specialists Botwin Eye Group / Oculus Optical Eye Associates of New Mexico Ojo Optique Quintana Optical Ultimate Eyecare Santa Fe

Best Shoe Store

City Shoe & Boot Repair Goler Fine Imported Shoes On Your Feet Street Feet The Running Hub Wind River Trading Company

Best Specialty Food/ Cooking Store Gift & Gourmet Kaune’s Neighborhood Market Kitchenality Las Cosas Kitchen Shoppe Santa Fe Olive Oil Santa Fe School of Cooking

Best Women’s Clothing Bodhi Bazaar Get It Together Sign of the Pampered Maiden Spirit Clothing Utopia WearAbouts

Best Western Wear Back At the Ranch Big R Stores Boot Barn Double Take Kowboyz Lucchese Bootmaker

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Best Art Collective Alas de Agua Art School and Space Antieau Gallery Meow Wolf Sage Mesa Collective Santa Fe Artists Market Strangers Collective

Best Band

Fun Adixx John Francis and the Poor Clares Nosotros Ron Crowder Band Shake Alert Sister Mary Mayhem

Best Bar

Cowgirl BBQ Del Charro Dinner for Two Secreto Lounge Tesuque Casino The Matador

Best Bartender

Patrick Gutierrez – Borrachos Raul Ortega-Hernandez – Cowgirl BBQ Jeannette Kinnaird – Santa Fe Brewing Katie Valdez – Dinner for Two Randilynn Landberg – Cowgirl BBQ Jonah Prokopiak – Matador

Best Casino

Buffalo Thunder Resort Casino Cities of Gold Casino Sandia Resort & Casino Santa Ana Star Center Santa Claran Hotel Casino Tesuque Casino

Best Dance Company Aspen Santa Fe Ballet EmiArteFlamenco NDI – New Mexico New Mexico School for the Arts Pomegranate Studios Zircus Erotique

Best Date Spot

Dinner for Two HoneyMoon Brewery: Hard Kombucha Brewery Santa Fe Opera Ten Thousand Waves Tesuque Casino Violet Crown Santa Fe

Best DJ

DJ Confused DJ D-MONIC DJ Dynamite Sol DJ Sider Raashan Ahmad Roberto Lujan

Best Gallery

Antieau Gallery Blue Rain Gallery form & concept gallery FRITZ Hecho a Mano Nedra Matteucci Galleries

Best Hotel Bar

AGAVE Restaurant & Lounge Del Charro La Fonda on the Plaza La Reina Secreto Lounge

Best Instagram Feed @cowgirlsantafe @simplysantafenm @skisantafe @haydenfold @picnic_nm @santafenmfoods

Best Lecture Series

El Rancho de Las Golondrinas Lannan Foundation Renesan Institute For Lifelong Learning Santa Fe Council on International Relations Santa Fe Institute School for Advanced Research

Best Live Music Venue Lensic Performing Arts Center Meow Wolf Santa Fe Opera Santa Fe Plaza Bandstand Tesuque Casino Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

Best Market/Festival El Rancho de las Golondrinas Harvest Festival Indian Market International Folk Art Market InterPlanetary Festival Santa Fe Artists Market Santa Fe Farmers Market

Best Movie House

Jean Cocteau Cinema Lensic Performing Arts Center Regal Santa Fe Place The Center for Contemporary Arts The Screen Violet Crown

Best Museum

El Rancho de las Golondrinas Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Museum of International Folk Art New Mexico History Museum/ Palace of the Governors Santa Fe Children’s Museum

Best Nonprofit for the Arts NDI New Mexico New Mexico School for the Arts Opera West!

Santa Fe Opera Santa Fe Playhouse Wise Fool New Mexico

Best Performing Arts Venue Lensic Performing Arts Center Santa Fe Opera Santa Fe Playhouse The Swan Theater Teatro Paraguas Wise Fool New Mexico

Best Street Musician/ Busker Half a Shipwreck Jason Youth John Dwane Johnny Lloyd Kyle Perkins Liv Orovich

Best Theater Group New Mexico School for the Arts Santa Fe Playhouse Teatro Paraguas Theater Grottesco Theater of Death Wise Fool New Mexico

FOOD & DRINK Best Artisan Chocolate Art of Chocolate/ Cacao Santa Fe chocolate and cashmere ChocolateSmith Kakawa Chocolate House Sweet Santa Fe LLC Todos Santos Chocolates

Best Asian Restaurant Chow’s Asian Bistro Izanami Restaurant Jinja Bar & Bistro Lu Lu’s Chinese Cuisine Mampuku Ramen Paper Dosa

Best Bakery

Chocolate Maven Clafoutis Dolina Bakery & Cafe Dulce Bakery & Coffee Madame Matisse Sage Bakehouse

Best Breakfast Clafoutis Dolina Harry’s Roadhouse Plaza Cafe Southside The Pantry Tia Sophia’s

Best Breakfast Burrito Baja Tacos Blake’s Lotaburger Cafe Fina El Parasol The Pantry Tia Sophia’s

Best Brunch

Café Mimosa Chocolate Maven Clafoutis Cowgirl Dolina Bakery & Cafe Tesuque Casino

Best Chile

Best Margaritas

Best Cocktails

Best New Mexican Restaurant

Atrisco Cafe & Bar Horseman’s Haven Cafe La Choza Restaurant The Pantry The Shed Restaurant Tomasita’s Borracho’s Craft Booze and Brews Coyote Cafe & Rooftop Cantina Dinner for Two Paloma Restaurant Radish & Rye Secreto Lounge Tonic

Best Coffee

35˚ NORTH COFFEE Betterday Iconik Coffee Roasters Java Joe’s Ohori’s Coffee Roasters REMIX Audio Bar

Best Dessert

Chocolate Maven Clafoutis Crepas-oh!

Dulce Bakery & Coffee Harry’s Roadhouse Paloma Restaurant

Best Fermented Food or Drink Barrio Brinery HoneyMoon Brewery: Hard Kombucha Brewery Leaf & Hive Brew Lab Patrick’s Fine Foods, Inc. Rowley Farmhouse Ales

Best Fine Dining

Coyote Cafe & Rooftop Cantina Dinner for Two Geronimo Sazón The Bull Ring The Compound Restaurant

Best Food Cart/Truck/ Stand Back Road Pizza Bang Bite El Chile Toreado Jambo Hapta Palate Santafamous Street Eats

Best Frito Pie

Chicago Dog Express Del Charro El Parasol Five & Dime General Store Kaune’s Neighborhood Market Plaza Cafe Southside

Best Happy Hour Cowgirl BBQ Dinner for Two Santa Fe Capitol Grill Secreto Lounge Tesuque Casino The Dragon Room

Best Ice Cream/Gelato/ Frozen Yogurt Baskin-Robbins Ecco Espresso and Gelato Frogurt Self-Serve Frozen Yogurt La Lecheria Downtown Paleteria Oasis Santa Fe Espresso Co. featuring Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream

Best International Cuisine India House Izanami Restaurant Jambo Cafe Mampuku Ramen Paper Dosa Sazón

Best Burger

Best Italian Restaurant

Best Chef

Best Locally Brewed Beer

Cowgirl BBQ Del Charro Santa Fe Bite Shake Foundation Tesuque Casino The Burger Stand @ Burro Alley Ahmed Obo, Jambo Cafe Kathleen Crook, Market Steer Mark Kiffin, The Compound Martin Rios, Restaurant Martin Nathan Mayes, Paloma Ruben Tanuz, Terra Encantada at the Four Seasons

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Cafe Grazie Il Piatto Italian Farmhouse Kitchen Ostería d’Assisi Piccolino Trattoria A Mano

Beer Creek Brewing Co. HoneyMoon Brewery: Hard Kombucha Brewery Rowley Farmhouse Ales Santa Fe Brewing Second Street Brewery Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

Del Charro Harry’s Roadhouse La Choza Restaurant Maria’s New Mexican Kitchen The Shed Restaurant Tomasita’s

Atrisco Cafe & Bar Café Castro La Choza Restaurant Maria’s New Mexican Kitchen The Shed Restaurant Tomasita’s

Best New Mexico Distillery

Dry Point Distillers Hollow Spirits Distillery KGB Spirits Santa Fe Spirits Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery Wayward Sons Distillery

Best New Mexico Winery Black Mesa Winery D.H. Lescombes Winery & Bistro Gruet Winery La Chiripada Winery Noisy Water winery Vivác Winery

Best New Restaurant Cottonwood Kitchen, Tesuque Casino Madame Matisse Mampuku Ramen Sassella Restaurant The Pantry Dos Yamas Greek Rotisserie

Best Patio

Beer Creek Brewing Co. Cowgirl BBQ Harry’s Roadhouse La Casa Sena Santacafe The Bull Ring

Best Pizza

Back Road Pizza Beer Creek Brewing Co. Il Vicino Wood Oven Pizza Pizza Centro Rooftop Pizzeria Upper Crust Pizza

Best Sushi Restaurant Izanami Restaurant Izmi Sushi Bar Kai Sushi & Dining Kohnami Japanese restaurant Masa Sushi Sushi Land East

Best Tacos

Baja Tacos Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill El Callejón El Chile Toreado El Parasol Taco Fundacion

Best Taproom

HoneyMoon Brewery: Hard Kombucha Brewery New Mexico Hard Cider Taproom Rowley Farmhouse Ales Santa Fe Brewing Second Street Brewery Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

Best Tea

Annapurna’s® World Vegetarian Café ArtfulTea Opuntia REMIX Audio Bar ReVamp Nutrition The Teahouse

Best Vegetarian

Annapurna’s® World Vegetarian Café Jambo Cafe Love Yourself Cafe Paper Dosa Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen Vinaigrette

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this is a conservative number, I think—it is about 10 square feet that they need. But we don’t have a huge flock; you wouldn’t want to have an egg farm.”

Goeller’s flock started at seven, but one died last year; her family plans to add three chickens this year. Locally, she says, chicks are available at stores like The Feed Bin, but there are countless hatcheries around the country that’ll mail you day-old chicks. She chose the latter to assure she’d have all egg-laying hens and notes confidently that mailing chicks has become so commonplace there are protocols in place to make sure it’s done safely.

“You get a box of little peeping chicks and it’s really easy to set them up,” she says. “But there’s also been this crazy run on chickens [from hatcherLEFT: You can follow Carole Goeller’s

ies], so I’m not sure if they’ll be in stock.”

They’ve been an irreplaceable addition to her life, she says.

“They’re so much smarter than people think,” Goeller explains. “They have distinct personalities, they have different vocalizations and you get to know what those mean…when they’re stressed, when they’re hungry, when they’re about to lay an egg.”

Goeller estimates her hens collectively lay about four eggs a day. A lifelong vegetarian, her main concern was in the ethical treatment of animals, as well as in knowing where her food was coming from. But their prolific laying schedule keeps her well-stocked. She gives away many eggs to friends and neighbors, but during the pandemic, she’s also done a little bit of bartering for things like sourdough start-

she still has no names); bees that tend to keep within a 3-mile radius of their hives spread around the neighborhood, visibly changing the flora of the area.

Sommer says she’s pretty sure other nearby houses keep bees too, and that she, like them, no longer has to settle for store-bought honey. But this isn’t to say the bees pay for themselves straight away. Sommer advises due diligence and the potentially restrictive costs of equipment. There is more than one kind of hive, for example, as well as suits, smokers and other considerations. But, she says, the bee people of New Mexico are into it, and some, perhaps former apiarists or amateurs, might even be willing to part with gear on the cheap.

“There’s a ton of good information and so many people locally who are bee geniuses,” she says. “I don’t think it’s that hard to find a wealth of information.”

Additionally, it’s an activity for the whole family. Sommer’s young son has

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been helping with the hive since he was 4; as we spoke by phone, he was breaking down a comb for honey, and, she says, they expect their entire small garden to “go wild this summer.”

I swear I can hear Carole Goeller’s chickens clucking away in the background when she answers the phone.

“I’m outside,” she says. “Can you hear me OK?” Goeller’s been a self-described “crazy chicken lady” (with respect to the great Mark McKinney) for roughly two years, though with previous roots in Eldorado at a time when chicken ownership was the height of controversy, she’s wanted them much longer. When she moved into town with her husband and children a couple years back, obtaining hens was a top priority.

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Regardless, the true joy of chicken ownership for Goeller has been in their value as pets. Her family purchased a coop and built a run for their birds; her kids and their friends loved helping raise and care for the chicks.

But, like bees, there are so many resources in the community available to budding enthusiasts it’s kind of ridiculous. Still, Goeller says, the assumption that picking up a few chickens will be a cheap alternative to store-bought isn’t correct. Between cleaning, bedding, maintaining the coop and run, plus potential vet visits—not a common practice according to Goeller, but one she advises all the same—it’s been slightly more expensive than she imagined.

“They’re far from free,” she says, “and this is something people need to know—chickens only regularly lay eggs for two or three years. People need to make a decision. We would never eat our chickens, but some people do when they stop laying; some people want to re-home them. People who want chickens should know that.”

And it obviously doesn’t stop at gardening, bees and chickens.

Santa Fean Corey Ponder-Sutton recently returned to town after years spent in San Francisco and Denver.

Upon learning of the stay-at-home order, one of her first plans was to start cultivating mushrooms.

“I was always talking to the mushroom guys at farmers markets, like Far West Fungi in the Bay Area when I was in college, but at that point, I was a college student, so shelling out for a mushroom kit seemed a little too much,” Ponder-Sutton tells SFR. Now, however, that $25 for a readyto-go fungi block (which, by the way, she ordered from the same Far West

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Fungi people) doesn’t seem so silly.

Ponder-Sutton lives with her stepfather, and says she “wanted to be sure we had some kind of plan besides our deep freezer—so I bought them, set them up and it was so much easier than I imagined it being.”

Ponder-Sutton chose three varieties: shiitake, yellow oyster tree mushroom and lion’s mane.

“I imagined there would be all these complex things to take care of, but as long as I’m just checking twice a day and making sure they’re getting enough light and water, it’s fine.”

Each block will reportedly produce three or four complete harvests, the first of which Ponder-Sutton has already reached. In fact, she says, the first fungi were ready to eat in about a week, and she estimates the shiitake block alone came in at roughly two pounds. In case you can’t picture it, that’s a shitload of mushrooms. And it didn’t take a greenhouse or hoophouse—Ponder-Sutton literally placed them near some south-facing windows in her home.

“Really, they just need indirect light and 70- or 80-ish degrees (and you can probably err a few degrees in either direction), and your mushrooms will be really tubular,” she says with a laugh.

“That’s what [mushroom people] call it, I think.”

She also says she’ll continue with mushrooms—she’s got the bug. As a preschool teacher at Children’s Garden Montessori, though, she says she might never have tried to cultivate her own fungus had she not found herself in the midst of isolation orders.

She always assumed she was too tired from the day’s labors to mess with mushrooms in the evening, but has since realized that’s not an issue.

“Plus,” she concludes, “it feels good to know my step-dad and I are safe and healthy.”

Those Lowdown Nursery Blues “So nurseries aren’t exactly open,” Agua Fria Nursery’s Shane Pennington says. “The law they put forward says that we’re open for curbside pickup and delivery. You can’t come in.”

Pennington says the new provisions, enacted some weeks after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham initially identified small local nurseries as non-essential, have proven a challenge from multiple angles.

“It’s one of the hardest things we’ve ever had to do,” he explains. “The phone doesn’t stop ringing and for every call we answer, we probably miss 10 others. There’s just this crush of people calling, there’s this crush of people who come over and try to rush the gate. We literally had to take a day off— and we’ve been open seven days a week, year-’round for 45 years—because we were so exhausted.”

Pennington says there’s been a rash of potential customers shouting at him, sometimes obscenity, over the last couple weeks. Still, a part of him understands the rush. The weather is warming up, the widely agreed-upon grow season is fast approaching and “the magic bullet date of May 15 is coming,” he adds.

But not only does he advise a return to calm and rational thinking, especially as it applies to gardening, he points out that lumping all of one’s expectations on May 15 is silly.

“It’s not like that’s the only possible time to put something in the ground,” he says. “There are still probably some frosts ahead, there’s even the possibility of snow.”

In the meantime, Pennington says he’s enlisted friends to help create an online store for the longstanding local nursery. This comes with its own challenges, however.

“It’s hard to catalog the stuff, but we have people who are putting a lot of effort into making that happen.”

The Santa Fe Seed Library and local master gardener club kicked off a number of free mini seed libraries across town last weekend with a plan to run through June 15, but Santa Feans snatched up the seeds so fast, they’ve now become more of a while-supplies-last kind of thing.

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REFLECTIONS FROM LOCKDOWN: ON MYSTERY AND DRUDGERY It’s week six of sheltering in place during the coronavirus crisis, and I’ve been reflecting on what I’m learning and how my experience of this strange period of history is changing over time.

In the beginning, like so many of us, I was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by the shocking changes to daily life: the orders to stay at home and see no friends; my toddler’s daycare closing and the daunting prospect of trying to work from home for an unknown duration with a tiny tornado on the loose; the cancellation of every gathering I looked forward to and every class I was supposed to teach; and the newly ubiquitous clouds of fear and sinister illness hovering over every sunny day.

I responded with a roller coaster of anxiety, shut-down, hypervigilant news-checking and manic bursts of productivity, trying to avoid powerlessness by brainstorming projects that might help, like offering a bunch of online support groups. I did not get what it would mean for this whole disaster to be a marathon instead of a sprint, and what it would take to sustain myself and my family over the coming months.

Now that it’s obvious we’re in this mess for the long haul, my manic energy has settled down. The reality of the world we’re living in has become more clear. While the specter of catastrophic disease can seem a little distant here in Santa Fe where, as of this writing, we have fewer than 100 confirmed cases, folks in other regions are living through utter devastation.

One of my jobs is trauma counseling, and I have a client in another state whose mom just died a surprising, terrible death from COVID-19. I am suddenly finding myself midwifing someone through great mystery and great tragedy. It pushes all my buttons, because my mom died in a similar way years ago, and it also feels like an immense honor to accompany her in this journey. I did not expect the coronavirus crisis to bring something so sacred into my life.

Yet this is juxtaposed against the astounding drudgery of these endless days in isolation. How can three people possibly create so many dishes? How can I be singing “Little Bunny Foo Foo” for the 26th time in two days? How can my daughter destroy the house we cleaned before bed by 10 am every

single morning? Is it really time for another Zoom call? Is it really time to make more hand sanitizer? Is it time for another snack? Are we actually watching another nails-on-thechalkboard episode of the unbearably saccharine Daniel Tiger because we desperately need a break from entertaining the kid? Yes. Yes we are.

And this is juxtaposed as well against the sometimes overwhelming sense of urgency and rage that hunkering down in isolation can cause a trauma survivor. I did not grow up associating extended periods of time at home with safety and respite. I grew up with a deeply unstable and severely alcoholic mom, and a super checked-out dad. Home was a place I associated with being trapped, surrounded by stagnation, bitterness and rage. Now I’m a grown-up and I get super triggered if I feel like I can’t get away from irrational people, and let me tell you—toddlers are not rational.

They throw unbelievable tantrums over the tiniest infractions. Just like my mom. And we are stuck together 24/7.

As I mentioned in my last column, some days I can call on my wiser, more patient self and meet my daughter with grace and sensitivity. Some days I feel like I’m back in a war zone and I just want to run away or fight. Except neither of those are possible, so I get stuck in freeze. Are you finding yourself bizarrely tired, kind of rigid and a little glassy eyed these days? You might be stuck in a freeze response too.

This crisis is definitely challenging me to love myself with more tenderness and compassion. The way out of overwhelm never involves force.

Sometimes it involves reaching out to my network of far-flung comrades for support. Sometimes it involves collapsing on the couch with my wife to watch a trashy episode of Love Island while checking my phone. Sometimes it involves driving 100 miles to Clines Corners and back to buy cheap gas station ice cream and watch the clouds change. We were sure the toddler would fall asleep, but she didn’t, and the only way to soothe her yelling was to reach deep into the backseat so she could hold my hand the entire way. The muscles in my forearms nearly gave out, but there was still something raw and sweet about stretching towards her and singing old songs with the radio. Light busted through open wounds in the sky and it almost felt like we were on a road trip to somewhere vast and unknown.

It almost felt like we were free.

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Quarantine Redux Lisa Kori stuns with 3-track single Unseen

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he COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t mark the first time musician, composer and visual artist Lisa Kori has faced isolation and quarantine.

In 2017, following a trip to Mexico, Kori took ill. It took eight months of extreme sickness and fatigue before doctors diagnosed her with giardiasis; the CDC placed Kori in quarantine for weeks, her only company a busted-up acoustic guitar and a laptop.

“I was basically stuck in my room,” she says, “and I was trying to create the biggest sound I could.”

First, she attempted to download various audio plug-in programs to flesh out her songs, but when Kori couldn’t get the sounds she wanted, she wrote her own remodulator code. Using that and working her way around the guitar’s shortcomings, Kori birthed the songs for the three-track single, Unseen, which was finally released recently.

These songs are absolute stunners, like an imperfect yet beautiful marriage of noise and melody. Beginning with the unsettling multi-track harmonious chants on opener “Unseen,” Kori sets the stage for a dreamlike foray into foggy strangeness. Her voice, layered on itself, sounds inviting in the early moments, but as it builds on itself, a hidden pain is slowly unveiled.

“I can say I was definitely angry and frustrated with the health care system,” Kori tells SFR. “I was so grateful to get

on Medicare, but I was also acutely aware that many people in this country don’t have health care.”

Kori next phases into the song “Quarantine,” perhaps the most accessible and relatable of the three and a beautiful bit of acoustic guitar over creeping audio effects and a sort of stream-of-consciousness set of lyrics.

“Never said I feared this ailing feeling, but I’ve run out of time/Yet I’m the one who looks at the ceiling, to find the sublime,” Kori sings, pointing to a year lost in bed and time spent utterly alone. You can feel this one deep in your gut, a sense of powerlessness, the strength needed to do the simplest things; a new take on the lyrical idea of listlessly staring at one’s ceiling while in pain.

Unseen is rounded out with the song “Summon,” a subtly dense combo of phasing vocals and minimalist guitar akin to Thom Yorke back when that meant something. Again, Kori harmonizes with herself to almost spiritual droning effect. Noise elements rise up in the peripheral, threatening to overtake the guitar and voice but backing off until the last minute or so when Kori reprises themes set during the opener. It’s dark and cacophonous and completely unexpected, but someplace within its jarring transformation, Kori brings things full circle, signaling erratic thoughts and terrifying illness. It’s like the soundtrack to forced isolation. Perhaps that sounds obvious, but as the entire world recently learned how to relate to Kori’s 2017, it suddenly feels more universal than most noise music ever does.

“I will tell you this—I wrote the music with faith that writing about illness and profound challenge was deeply humanistic,” she explains. “The rest is up to the

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weird entropy of this strange planet with all these wonderful beings on it.”

Indeed, how Kori achieved Unseen’s content could easily be labeled as one big coincidence—how could she have reasonably known in 2017 when she wrote these songs that they’d become so thematically universal by the spring of 2020? It’s far more fun to think of the piece as strangely prophetic fever dream, though. Like something plucked in waves from a mind thrust into absurd circumstances we’re all now positioned to fully appreciate.

Futher, if Unseen is a glimpse into the directions Kori plans to take her solo work, I’m here for it in a very real way. Up next, she says, is a potential alternate history concept album based in her heritage.

She’s of Japanese and Chinese descent, but was born and grew up in Hawaii.

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Indigenous peoples have already found their way into Kori’s music, but delving more into her Asian identity, she started wondering why there’s very little evidence of its existence in American music.

“American music is a lot of West African music mixed with Spanish guitars mixed with Scotch and Irish ballads,” she says. “I’m thinking about how my Japanese side and my Chinese side… they lived in the American west, but their music never really made it into the mix.

Where are their work songs? I’m trying to write an alternate history as if Asian music had [been in the mix].”

That might conjure up dreams of country music given Kori’s pedigree—and to a certain extent, she says, that’s not too far off. Nevertheless, it’s OK to hope for stranger or more experimental elements, and Unseen is the must-listen proof that she knows just how to do it.

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e’ve all had the carry-out blues from time to time.

Even the best plans to package what rightfully should be enjoyed in a full-service setting can lead to soggy burritos, dripping cardboard edges and dry proteins. With New Mexico’s restaurants still on dining-room lockout due to COVID-19 public health orders, shifting from ready-made to almost ready seems like an innovative way to combat the problems.

315 Restaurant & Wine Bar (314 Old Santa Fe Trail, 986-9190) has been keeping some of its workers in the kitchen by offering a selection of frozen items. This is not your standard chipboard box from Joe Whatshisname’s. We’ve tried three varieties from chef Louis Moskow, and our favorites so far are the duck and foie gras with cherry emulsion.

Packaging is simple and effective plastic bags with zipper closures, brought curbside complete with well-marked and well-sealed ramekins of each sauce. Next to that cherry bomb, our other favorite was the bright orange harissa that came for lamb ravioli and has a spunky, acid flavor with a subtle hotness.

Plating at home has also become a social media worthy endeavor. These dumplings and their creative sauces will up

Frozen dumplings from 315 are to-go spoof proof

the ante—they look way better than that Amy’s frozen lasagna with the cellophane off. They’ll make you feel fancy at the Zoom cocktail hour you have planned, or just, you know, Thursday. We also like that it’s easy to prepare half the dish and save the other half for another day, say for when

ABOVE: Duck and foie gras with cherry emulsion, scallop with truffle aoili.

RIGHT: Lamb ravioli, ready for sauce.

your nighttime pajamas and daytime work outfit turn out to be the same clothes.

Our first foray was not long after the Next Level Dumpling menu took off, and we went home with a dozen each of the duck potstickers and scallop and scallion with black truffle aioli ($15 each.) The online order system was easy to use and the food came out within just a few minutes of our call upon arrival.

While 315 hasn’t done much frozen food, the to-go dumplings dictated their own best strategy.

“The dumplings need to practice social distancing or else they are going to stick together,” chef and proprietor Moskow says.

We missed the online cooking instructions on Round 1, and that resulted in a flawed first effort at steaming the potstickers, but a second try with salted boiling water produced much better results. Now, Moskow says, the restaurant adds printed instructions with every order for people like us.

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batches from a rotating list of ingredients. Morel hunters on the mountains are coming back to town with bounty, so mushroom and pea shoot dumplings are likely on deck. Watch for maybe some salmon, too, he says.

The to-go menu also features frozen French onion soup and has a recent addition of beef bourgogne by the pint, served with potato gnocchi ($15). And don’t forget the desert.

While patrons seemed to be enjoying huckleberry tarts when 315 first launched the menu, the dessert plan has been forced to shift. A break-in about two weeks ago led thieves to make off with a weird assortment of pantry and fridge items—the irreplaceable huckleberries among them, Moskow reports. Now it’s strawberry rhubarb for as long as he can find the ingredients (some, even, from his mother’s garden).

“It really throws you off your game,” he says, noting the crew is still discovering items that went missing, including an entire barrel of Worcestershire sauce and a block of white chocolate.

The restaurant is open on a short 1 to 4 pm weekday schedule for now. And even after the expected reopening of the dining room some time this summer, Moskow says the Next Level Dumplings might stay on offer.

“We have some days that are nothing and some that are busier than we think we could be, and some days people order all gluten-free everything and then the next day nobody wants it,” he says.

“There’s no rhyme or reason, which is standard for the restaurant business.”

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There’s a fine line between delusion and illusion. And both are part of the myth of a “clean energy” that magically lifts humanity from its crash course with the planet. Rather than drastically reduce our consumption of resources such as water, fossil fuels and hard-rock minerals, humans are more content to seek technological fixes that won’t work anyway.

That is the thesis of Planet of the Humans.

Move over, Al Gore. Henceforth, Earth Day belongs to Jeff Gibbs.

Gibbs directs and reports the documentary produced by Michael Moore and released on April 21. It’s free on YouTube for 30 days and is a must-watch.

Just as billions in federal aid have been dumped into “the economy” in recent weeks from COVID-19 stimulus and relief packages, the US has poured fountains of money over the elusive concept of better energy, and we’re not saving the planet as much as we’re flailing to save our standard of living.

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It was one of the biggest scandals to hit a school in the history of, well, schools, but the early-aught embezzlement of the Long Island Roslyn school district mostly went forgotten until the newly released HBO movie Bad Education with Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney. And though the cable channel gussies things up in the name of drama and sexiness, its core tenets—a pair of trusted public servants who turned a less-than-stellar district into one of the top five in the nation while stealing millions—ring true and salacious enough that it’s hard to look away.

Beneath it all, Bad Education is a secret journalism film, or at least one that understands the power of the press. It was the school paper that broke the story of Frank Tassone (here played by Jackman) and Pam Gluckin (Janney) funneling taxpayer funds into beach homes and face lifts, nice cars and expensive suits; national outlets followed after. Director Cory Finley and screenwriter Mike Makowsky spirit the student journo character Rachel (Geraldine Viswanathan) into existence to help us along, but her lowstakes position at a student paper turned high stakes pursuit of fact and truth is inspiring, even if she’s ultimately a broad amalgamation.

Jackman, meanwhile, hits highs as a teacher led astray by fears of aging and image.

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Gibbs highlights how the global environmental cost of mining, production and disposal of solar and wind technology don’t get primetime play. We’re still using fossil fuel-based infrastructure to build them. Plus, the same evil corporate overlords who run technological/industrial society (read: The Koch Brothers) run the strategy and profit bases that prop up the “green energy movement.”

The movie is an enjoyable if also gut-rotting indictment of Big Environment and some of its figureheads, including Vermonter Bill McKibben, and yes, Gore, in particular.

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In tandem with Janney’s always remarkable skills, Bad Education sings. It’s almost hard to hate them for what they do, particularly as we’re constantly reminded that they got results, dammit! Ray Romano as school board president Bob Spicer makes sure we never forget it through real-life college admission stats and skyrocketing home prices in the school’s district, and there’s something about how neither Tassone nor Gluckin ever forgets a student or their interests that shows us they cared deeply once.

There’s a bit of teacher worship to be found as well, particularly through a stirring late-act speech wherein Jackman reminds us these people hold our hands and literally gift us with information through long hours and low pay—only to be forgotten by students climbing the ladder.

Of course, that’s no reason to steal from a school, nor does it excuse meandering subplots that could have been covered through dialogue. Still, it’s the Jackman/Janney duo we came to see, and they do not disappoint in what’s otherwise a perfectly fine film. (ADV)

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front of it takes a punch through this lens: biomass, biofuels, divestment/investments, natural gas and even giant mirrors in the California desert; “the takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism,” Gibbs says, “is complete.”

The planned release date couldn’t have anticipated how so many people would be feeling this day, and that while we’re under stay-at-home orders from a public health threat, we see how the deep scar of humans on the environment can heal in perceptible ways.

There is much to mourn. And we can change.

But how?

blocks for pretty much all the music that came afterwards, from R&B to rock to hiphop and beyond.

But if you ask the people who were there—the Little Anthonies, the Jon Baumans, the Barbara Jean Englishes—it was always just R&B, it was always more about vocal harmonies (many of the greats were too poor to buy instruments), it was always more about the rhythm and expression than any tidy title. These people don’t much care for the term “doo-wop,” in fact, nor do they care for how cast aside, forgotten and ultimately unpaid they wound up being after the genre faded into oldies territory.

In Streetlight Harmonies, from director Brent Wilson, we hear tell of an era when practically everyone with a half-decent voice took to the corners, bathed in the glow of the streetlight, and sang. Like all things, once industry made sense of it, it was commodified and packaged, its creators were chewed up and spat out; Frankie Lymon, for example, died young despite his indelible mark with The Teenagers. Most others were simply forgotten.

And they’re none too happy about it.

Through interviews with singers, DJs, later singers, icons and pop culture phenoms, we fully get the gist that doo-wop was vitally important to music history, but Wilson and company give us a clearer idea that its purveyors are still pissed—the living ones, anyway.

PLANET OF THE HUMANS Directed by Gibbs YouTube, NR, 100 min.

There’s only so many times you can hear from someone about how they made no money or how the people who came after would never have amounted to anything had Ben E. King never put pen to paper and voice to microphone. Wilson nearly winds up portraying his subjects like whiners, even if it’s well warranted, which it is, and while their pain is more than understandable, a few more celebratory moments might have come in handy.

If the moral thus becomes something about how the record industry is evil, well, we already knew that. If it becomes about how white people tend to ruin or steal everything, well, we knew that, too. Of course it’s unfair, of course businessmen took advantage, of course these people deserve more recognition. But if the history of doo-wop is writ solely as a cadre of the elderly repeatedly saying how much things sucked…well, then it’s little wonder we’ve since moved on.

Music, of course, ebbs and flows, and people, of course, deserve to be paid for their labors. Streetlight Harmonies does rekindle a love for countless songs we all know (and believe me—you probably know all these songs), but when it comes to providing any new or revelatory information, or even giving us a reason to love those who wrote songs inscribed forever in our collective consciousness, that stuff is unfortunately in short supply. (ADV)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I always hesitate to advise Aries people to slow down, be more deliberate, and pay closer attention to boring details. The Rams to whom I provide such counsel may be rebelliously annoyed with me—so much so that they move even faster, and with less attention to the details. Nevertheless, I’ll risk offering you this advisory right now. Here’s my reasoning, which I hope will make the prospect more appealing: If you commit to a phase in which you temporarily invoke more prudence, discretion, and watchfulness than usual, it will ultimately reward you with a specific opportunity to make rapid progress.

exotic desires. I don’t regard any of these likelihoods as problematical. In fact, I applaud them and encourage them. They’re healthy for you! Bonus: All the wild action transpiring in your psyche may prompt you to generate good ideas about fun adventures you could embark on once the coronavirus crisis has ebbed.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s time to work your way below the surface level of things, Libra; to dig and dive into the lower reaches where the mysteries are darker and richer; to marshal your courage as you go in quest of the rest of the story. Are you willing to suspend some of your assumptions about the way things work so as to become fully alert for hidden agendas and TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Is there an area of your life where you would like a do-over? A chance to can- dormant potentials? Here’s a piece of advice: Your cel the past and erase lingering messiness and clear a fine analytical intelligence won’t be enough to guide path for who-knows-what new possibility? The coming you through this enigmatic terrain. If you hope to get face to face with the core source, you’ll have to call on weeks will be an excellent time to prepare—not to your deeper intuition and non-rational hunches. actually take the leap, but rather make yourself ready for the leap. You will have God and fate and warm SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When was the last time fuzzy vibes on your side as you dare to dream and you researched the intricacies of what you don’t like and scheme about a fresh start. Any mistakes you commitdon’t desire and don’t want to become? Now is a favorted once upon a time could become irrelevant as you able time to take a thorough inventory. You’ll generate fantasize practically about a future breakthrough. good fortune for yourself by naming the following truths: 1. goals and dreams that are distractions from GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1855, Gemini-born Walt Whitman published his book of poetry Leaves of your primary mission; 2. attitudes and approaches that aren’t suitable for your temperament and that don’t Grass. A literary critic named Rufus Wilmot Griswold did not approve. In a review, he derided the work that contribute to your maximum health; 3. people and influwould eventually be regarded as one of America’s lit- ences that are not in alignment with your highest good. erary masterpieces. “It is impossible to imagine how SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Novelist Fyodor any man’s fancy could have conceived such a mass of Dostoevsky believed that the cleverest people are those stupid filth,” Griswold wrote, adding that Whitman who regularly call themselves fools. In other words, they had a “degrading, beastly sensuality” driven by “the feel humble amusement as they acknowledge their failvilest imaginings.” Whitman’s crafty Gemini intelliings and ignorance—thereby paving the way for creative gence responded ingeniously to the criticism. In the growth. They steadily renew their commitment to avoid next edition of Leaves of Grass, the author printed being know-it-alls, celebrating the curiosity that such Griswold’s full review. It helped sell even more books! blessed innocence enables them to nurture. They give I invite you to consider comparable twists and tricks. themselves permission to ask dumb questions! Now is a CANCER (June 21-July 22): In your efforts to develop favorable time for you to employ these strategies. a vibrant community and foster a vital network of conCAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What wonderful nections, you have an advantage. Your emotionally improvements and beautiful influences would you love to rich, nurturing spirit instills trust in people. They’re be basking in by May 1, 2021? What masterpieces would drawn to you because they sense you will treat them you love to have as key elements of your life by then? I with care and sensitivity. On the other hand, these fine invite you to have fun brainstorming about these possibilattributes of yours may sometimes cause problems. ities in the next two weeks. If an exciting idea bubbles up Extra-needy, manipulative folks may interpret your into your awareness, formulate a plan that outlines the softness as weakness. They might try to exploit your details you’ll need to put in place so as to bring it to fruikindness to take advantage of you. So the challenge tion when the time is right. I hereby authorize you to for you is to be your generous, welcoming self without describe yourself with these terms: begetter; originator; allowing anyone to violate your boundaries or rip you maker; designer; founder; producer; framer; generator. off. Everything I just said will be helpful to meditate on AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If I asked you to hug in the coming weeks, as you reinvent yourself for the and kiss yourself regularly, would you think I was being future time when the coronavirus crisis will have lost too cute? If I encouraged you to gaze into a mirror much of its power to disrupt our lives. once a day and tell yourself how beautiful and interestLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Now is an excellent time to take ing you are, would you say, “That’s too woo-woo for inventory of your integrity. You’re likely to get crucial me.” I hope you will respond more favorably than that, insights if you evaluate the state of your ethics, your Aquarius. In fact, I will be praying for you to ascend to authenticity, and your compassion. Is it time to boost new heights of self-love between now and May 25. I your commitment to a noble cause that transcends will be rooting for you to be unabashed as you treat your narrow self-interest? Are there ways you’ve been yourself with more compassionate tenderness than less than fully fair and honest in your dealings with you have ever dared to before. And I do mean EVER! people? Is it possible you have sometimes failed to give PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming weeks, I’d your best? I’m not saying that you are guilty of any of those sins. But most of us are indeed guilty of them, at love to see you get excited about refining and upgrading the ways you communicate. I don’t mean to imply least now and then. And if you are, Leo, now is your that you’re a poor communicator now; it’s just that special time to check in with yourself—and make any you’re in a phase when you’re especially empowered to necessary adjustments and corrections. enhance the clarity and candor with which you express VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I predict that you will have yourself. You’ll have an uncanny knack for knowing the more flying dreams than usual in the coming weeks— right thing to say at the right moment. You’ll generate as well as more dreams in which you’re traveling blessings for yourself as you fine-tune your listening around the world in the company of rebel angels and skills. Much of this may have to happen online and over dreams in which you’re leading revolutionary uprisings the phone, of course. But you can still accomplish a lot! of oppressed people against tyrannical overlords and Homework: What’s the bravest thing you ever did? dreams of enjoying eight-course gourmet feasts with What will be the next brave thing you do? Testify at sexy geniuses in the year 2022. You may also, even while not asleep, well up with outlandish fantasies and FreeWillAstrology.com

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