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NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 FINDING SOLACE 9 Solace Crisis Treatment Center helps the police get U visas for immigrants impacted by violent crime, but federal policies are overstepping the protections of the program BLUE SUNSET 11 Those blue buses are free, and go everywhere from Taos to Eldorado—but their funding might be in jeapordy COVER STORY 12 OVERLOOKED AND WRITTEN OFF Some inmates in New Mexico’s prisons practice trades for as little as 20 cents an hour, and there are signs that unrest is building on a national level among incarcerated workers

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year-old partnership between the Santa Fe Police Department and the Solace Crisis Treatment Center, the Southside resource that provides services and counseling for survivors of domestic and sexual violence, is helping get the word out about a special program for undocumented people who help police. But its future is uncertain under the Trump administration.

The police department has been funneling money to the treatment center for several years to provide services for survivors, and since last year, it’s also footing the bill for Solace workers who give police legal advice for how to fill out immigrants’ applications for special visas. A pending contract to renew the spending is up for a City Council vote early July.

The program concerns U visas, which are issued to immigrants victimized by crimes and “who assist government officials in investigating or prosecuting criminal activity.” Applications require that top officials from the Santa Fe Police Department certify a crime was committed and that the applicant assisted the police investigation in some way. Once issued, the visa has historically shielded a person and their immediate family from deportation.

Interim Police Chief Andrew Padilla reviews all applications for the visas, but SFPD doesn’t widely advertise the program and there is no information about U visas on the department’s website, according to Lt. Sean Strahon, an acting department spokesman. Instead, potential applicants will often hear about it from a lawyer or other advocate in town, says Sheila Lewis, an attorney and legal adviser for the U visa program at the Solace center.

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crime,” undocumented people will have an incentive to work with police.

She counsels Padilla and other police officials on how to handle U visa applications.

In the last year, SFPD has certified information for 29 U visa applications and denied four. Lewis estimates the department has reached out to her on five separate occasions for guidance on how to review the applications.

“I can give advice [to Padilla] on how to read the regulations, what he can do in a situation—[but] ultimately [the police department is] the client, and I’m legal support,” Lewis says. “I try to advise the chief that his role is limited.”

In a memo from May referencing the contract for Solace, Padilla wrote to the City Council Finance Committee that the Solace center could bring “comfort and security to the victims and [help] with the quickly needed assistance that perhaps a Police Department cannot nor should not provide to victims.”

The reasons services for domestic violence and sexual abuse survivors were transferred to Solace employees from SFPD had to do with privacy, says Solace Executive Director Maria Jose Rodriguez Cadiz.

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wing at the center inhabited by police, who acted as intake for survivors. But officers treated the counseling process like criminal investigations, and deeply personal confessions could later become discoverable in criminal cases. Transferring the service from police to Solace social workers helped resolve this conflict.

Now when a survivor comes to the center, says Rodriguez Cadiz, “they don’t have to worry that when they open their heart and minds and speak about what’s happened to them, that the details will be known by everybody.”

The functions covered by the city contract with Solace can sometimes overlap, such as when an applicant for a U visa is also the victim of domestic violence or abuse. Police are still part of the equation, which may be a deterrent for immigrant women looking for help, according to research.

In a study from 2015, the ACLU found a whopping 88 percent of people they surveyed, including workers and attorneys who support victims of domestic violence, thought police were inclined to disbelieve victims of sexual and domestic abuse and assault.

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contacting police sometimes or often leads to criminal charges that initiate immigration or deportation proceedings for family members. Rodriguez Cadiz tells SFR she sees the Solace center as a bridge between SFPD and immigrant women who may be wary of police.

Another broader issue is that the efficacy of the U visa program seems to be waning under the Trump administration, which is aggressively prosecuting immigrants who lack the federal government’s permission to be in the country as they wait for approval of the visas. More people who qualify for the visa are being deported than ever before, and it no longer guarantees the protection it once did.

This is what the New Mexico Faith Coalition for Immigrant Justice feared before New Mexico resident Exlander Galindo Duarte went for his checkin with an ICE official on Monday in Albuquerque. Duarte, who has two UScitizen children, has been waiting for his U visa application to be formally approved for almost 10 years. His wife was deported to Mexico in May despite the traditional practice of U visa applicants’ family members also being protected from deportation.

Duarte wasn’t detained Monday, but one of his attorneys, Roxie De Santiago from the Rebecca Kitson law firm in Albuquerque, says more and more she is seeing federal prosecutors “moving to terminate and issue orders of removal for individuals whose U visas are pending.”

Sheila Lewis of the Solace center says federal policy is the wildcard in the U visa process.

“That’s out of our hands,” Lewis tells SFR. “We never want to suggest to someone they take action [because] sometimes we don’t know what the law is or how it’ll be administered.”

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the Santa Fe Community College and the 599 Rail Runner train station, as Sales in four well as blue bus routes to places like counties pay Eldorado. The district also pays for taxes that keep the transit shuttles to the International Folk Art, district’s buses Spanish and Indian markets, as well as running. to Zozobra and the Christmas Eve farolito walk.

For a time, there was talk among both city leaders and the transit district about spinning off the city’s bus system, Santa Fe Trails, to the district. There was a study, even a website devoted to the issue. Consolidation was possible, the study said, though unionization issues remained a potential stumbling block and a merger wouldn’t free up taxing capacity for the city as hoped. There were cost savings for the city by not having to administer the bus system, but they were relativeThe fate of the blue buses rests in the hands of voters ... ly modest. whether they know it or not Without a secure funding future, though, consolidation amounted to only gross receipts tax purchases made in those so much talk. So, both the city and the B Y M AT T G R U B S four counties. Like most such levies, it’s transit district set the issue aside. City staff m a t t g r u b s @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m not usually noticed, but it adds up—both say one benefit of having done the study is he good news for the North Cen- for consumers and for the beneficiary of that they’re working more closely with the tral Regional Transit District is the tax.

RTD than before. For its part, the district that better than eight in 10 regisEarlier this year, the transit district refocused on nailing down that tax. tered voters are willing to pay to keep the shelled out about $36,000 for a profesAfter it passed a decade ago, leaders district’s signature blue buses around. sional survey that would give the lay of the in each of the four counties served by the Democrats, Republicans, unaffiliated vot- land when it came to support for its ser- RTD adopted identical legislation to suners—they all favor a tax for public trans- vices and public transportation in general. set the tax in 2024. It seemed to be based portation. It’s not really even close.

It’s a crucial question, because the tax is on a pitch to voters in 2008 that the tax The bad news is that some of those scheduled to sunset on Jan. 1, 2024. wouldn’t be around forever. But the fact who favor funding the transit district “That tax is absolutely ctitical for the is, even with increasing ridership, without don’t even know about its existence. Ful- operations of the blue bus,” says Santa Fe gross receipts tax support, the transit disly four out of 10 voters either don’t know City Councilor Carol Romero-Wirth. She’s trict would be in dire shape. there’s such a thing as the RTD or don’t the newly appointed representative for “Fares contribute very little to the botcare enough about it to have an opinion. the city to the RTD’s governing board. tom line of the cost of transit services,” Despite strong approval numbers, the fact Most people on the road don’t give RTD spokesman Jim Nagle explains to that the blue buses toil in relative obscuri- much thought to a bus, other than they’d SFR. Most of the district’s budget is the ty makes public transportation advocates rather not be stuck behind it. But since gross receipts tax, followed by a series of nervous. voters approved the tax a decade ago, the federal and state grants.

In November, voters in Santa Fe, Los RTD has steadily expanded its reach. The That’s part of the reason the RTD has Alamos, Rio Arriba and Taos counties will district merged with Taos’ Chile Line mu- supported free or low-cost rides on 23 of decide whether or not to extend a tax that nicipal bus service a few years back. In its 25 routes. When it took over the Taos funds almost 70 percent of the transit dis- Santa Fe, the transit district fills notable bus service, it kicked fares to the curb, Natrict’s budget. It’s an eighth of a cent on all gaps in city service, including runs out to gle says.

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“To us, the public is contributing, so they shouldn’t have to pay for it again,” he tells SFR. The district has been generally supportive of the idea of making Santa Fe Trails a free service, as was widely discussed during the the city’s recent mayoral race. Former City Councilor Joe Maestas first floated the idea, which Alan Webber picked up on and has carried through his transition. His sustainability advisory group recently recommended finding a way to make it happen. On Thursday, the RTD and the city will once again celebrate “Dump the Pump Day,” during which rides on the system are free.

Romero-Wirth sees the appeal of a free public transit system as twofold.

“Certainly lower-income folks rely on public transportation. It’s really critical for getting around the city. That’s an important piece for people who don’t have other transportation means,” she says.

Transit is bound to become more important—not less, she explains, “from an environmental standpoint, looking at how we adjust to climate change and get out of our cars.”

Until that time, though, getting drivers—and voters—to recognize that the bus in front of them on the road is a vital link for the people on board will remain one of the key challenges for the transit district, lest the blue buses ride off into the 2024 sunset.

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llen Rackley is the star of management at the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Los Lunas.

Near the back of a furniture shop where about 40 inmates work most days to turn raw materials into desks, shelves, chairs, and countless other pieces of furniture for customers across the state, Rackley assembles several large wooden panels in what will be a long reception desk for the Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino.

At age 43, Rackley has spent most of his life locked up, beginning with a 16-year sentence for robbery while he was still a teenager. Then, he became one of nearly 80 percent of people in the nation who return to prison within five years of getting out, and was next incarcerated for a dozen more years for several burglary convictions.

Rackley, whose release date is next year, says working 10-hour days at the New Mexico Corrections Industries furniture shop helps time go by more quickly. Yet, he is still trapped behind a tall barbed-wire fence. The fenceposts are lined with razor-sharp spikes all the way to the top, meant to break off in flesh.

In the shop, Rackley tells SFR, “they treat you like a man, they work you like a man, and they expect you to be a man and conduct and carry yourself in that way.” Back in general population, he says, correctional officers treat you like an “inmate”—less than human.

Allen Rackley, an inmate at the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Los Lunas, pauses from building a reception desk destined for Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino. He is one of about 40 inmates who work inside the prison’s furniture shop.

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for a new nationwide strike by inmates there and in 16 other states. An end to exploited labor is just one demand; taken together, the list reads like a basic call for human rights inside prisons.

Advocates say the line between giving people meaningful work while incarcerated and exploiting them is thin. Hundreds of documents collected by SFR show over 100 entities purchased New Mexico prison products at a fraction of what they’d cost from non-inmate labor. Customers across the state contributed to about $21 million the department counts as revenue in sales of prison goods and services over the last two years.

If inmates like Rackley see working for nickels and dimes as a privilege, those who study the issue argue it’s only because regular prison life is filled with despair.

He speaks to a reporter while a corrections officer stands only a few feet away.

Rackley might be part of the crew that drops the desk off at Buffalo Thunder, because the state has deemed him and others working here nonthreatening enough to assist in deliveries. They’ve recently built chairs and desks for Nambé Pueblo Tribal Court, lockers for the Santa Rosa Fire Department and pews for the Holy Cross Catholic Church in Las Cruces.

Parishioners, defendants and gamblers who interact with these objects might never know they came from a prisoner’s hands.

Nationwide, inmates are organizing to stage work stoppages, sit-ins and boycotts of prison-made products in August. It comes two years after they participated in the largest mass protest against prison labor and conditions in American history. They’ve been aided by organizers on the outside, especially the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, an effort of the Industrial Workers of the World labor union.

In states like Texas and Florida, incarcerated laborers are paid nothing at all. About 300 inmates in New Mexico, nearly all of them men, working at seven different facilities across the state receive payment of 40 cents to $2.25 an hour, according to the Corrections Department. The department justifies this low pay by pointing to inmates’ criminal convictions and costly ongoing institutionalization.

SFR tried to independently speak with inmates working for Corrections Industries by sending personalized letters, but none replied before this article’s publication. All mail is first read by Corrections Department staff who deem whether it is appropriate to pass along. Rackley and others who spoke with SFR signed waivers to be photographed ahead of a scheduled visit, and all interviews conducted in person by SFR happened within earshot of prison staff.

There are no reports of anybody in New Mexico prisons participating in the nationwide strike in 2016, or preparing to do so this year. But when a riot at the Lee Correctional Facility in South Carolina resulted in dozens of casualties on April 15, it had echoes of the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot in Santa Fe over a quarter-century ago, and was rooted in similar reasons: mistreatment, exploitation, and corruption among officials.

Only now, the internet and social media have amplified the South Carolina uprising into a rallying cry

Who buys inmate labor in New Mexico?

Prisoners have always worked in factory-like conditions inside America’s prisons, beginning with the first ones established in New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. People running them intended for the “corrections industries” model, which can now be found in every state, to offset the costs of operating prisons, according to Federal Prison Industries, the work program for those incarcerated at federal facilities.

The New Mexico Legislature formally created Corrections Industries in 1978, just four years after

incarceration rates began to increase rapidly nationwide. A year later, Congress passed the Prison Industries Act, which did away with regulations on state prison labor passed during the Great Depression.

Since January 2016, over 120 public agencies in the state have purchased products created in prisons. Departments within New Mexico’s three branches of government were the biggest purchasers, spending a total of $599,566 in that time.

Purchasing documents obtained through records requests show some of the most commonly purchased goods to be oak name plates and business cards for state employees, including at the Public Regulation Commission, the Cultural Affairs Department, and the Regulation and Licensing Department.

The district courts are the biggest buyers of prison labor by dollars spent, mostly for official envelopes designed and printed at the Corrections Industries print shop in Santa Rosa. The invoices sometimes render explicit the hierarchy within New Mexico’s criminal justice system. Santa Rosa inmates designed and printed over one thousand linen-embossed invitations for the swearing-in ceremony of Supreme Court Justice Judith Nakamura, which took place at the Sid Cutter Pilots’ Pavilion in Albuquerque in December 2015. They also printed 500 business cards for Justice Nakamura, and at Los Lunas, they built her official name plaque.

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The Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Los Lunas holds inmates classified for minimum- and mediumlevel security. It houses Corrections Industries’ furniture shop.

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The Corrections Industries furniture shop at Los Lunas sells more products than any other division of Corrections Industries. Eleven counties have purchased such furniture, including Santa Fe, Doña Ana, Bernalillo and Sandoval. The purchases for Santa Fe County since last January have included golden oak name plates and business cards. Cities including Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Taos and Española have also purchased furniture. The name plates for all four Santa Fe magistrate judges and several city employees came from the Los Lunas prison, including for three city councilors.

There weren’t many private sector customers for New Mexico prison labor, but some included Sony and Eventbrite for services relat-

Scott Lorenz, an inmate at the Centeral New Mexico Correctional Facility, is part of a team reupholstering passenger seats for the New Mexico Rail Runner Express.

He says he is one of the “main guys” leading the effort and is paid just over $1 an hour for this work.

ed to since-shut down tours of the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe where the 1980 riot took place. In other states like Tennessee, inmates have produced jeans for JC Penney and K-Mart, and in Texas, some make computer and HVAC parts for private companies.

The “sad truth” about labor in prison is that inmates clamor for low-paying jobs because the alternative is a life of monotony and brutality, says Heather Ann Thompson, author of the book Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.

“They’re desperate for time out of their cell, desperate to make a little extra money, even if it’s 20 cents an hour,” Thompson tells SFR. “Imagine if prisoners were actually working an enriching job and getting paid full free-world

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“Begging to do the job” Juan Venegas is part of a team reupholstering the seats for 22 passenger cars for the New Mexico Rail Runner Express. The job requires Venegas and five others to remove worn foam padding and other material from 1,800 metallic skeletal seat pieces, clean them, and then reapply the foam.

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wages. It’s not the labor that’s the problem, it’s the exploitation.”

With the state’s Sentencing Commission forecasting a 9 percent increase in male inmates and 20 percent in women by 2027, officials are anticipating an increase in incarcerated labor, though its growth is limited by the state budget.

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Juan Venegas reupholsters a seat for the New Mexico Rail Runner Express.

Venegas expects to be out in less than 90 days after serving five years for a burglary conviction. He says he’ll return to Alamogordo to live with his father and raise his three sons.

Someone else will get to pick up his prison gig.

“We put our heart and souls into the work we do here,” Venegas says. “I can take these skills out to the world, [but] I’ll probably have to apprentice because I only focus on a few things here.”

He knows that it will be hard to get a job when he gets out, and the reupholstering skills he’s learning aren’t in high demand. He’s hoping to get rehired at a municipal job he had previously.

“Hiring felons, there are not a lot of places that do it,” Venegas says. “You have to know someone to get into somewhere.”

Another worker, Edward Patterson, pauses from building a bookshelf for the Children, Youth and Families Department office in Albuquerque to talk to a reporter. He’s worked at

the furniture shop for two years and his pay has increased from 40 cents to $1.50 an hour in that time.

“I guess for a prison job, it’s pretty good,” Patterson says of the payment. “It helps you pass your time a lot better, keeps your mind off a lot of other things, it keeps you from having to bother your family to help you out.”

Standing nearby in a crisp charcoal suit is Mike White, the sales manager of Corrections Industries for the last two years. He previously worked for the Labatt Food Service company, a major food distributor based in San Antonio. Now, revenue from inmate labor pays his $57,500 salary and that of 21 other civilian workers. White sees the Corrections Industries program as a public service that produces lowcost goods and people who are able to re-integrate into society.

“The thing that we’re producing at the end of the day is ideally an inmate [who], when he does get out, he has either hard skills or soft skills,”

White says. “The second thing is, if we’re doing our job right, we’re also bringing value to community. … We’re using inmate labor to actually produce something that the community itself is getting, a high quality product [for] less than what they’d be able to get commercially.”

One potential purchaser of Corrections Industries products, whom White will only describe as “a member of a board working up north,” squashed a project out of the belief inmates were akin to slaves. White thinks that was a disservice to the laborers.

The would-be customer, White says, “was under the misunderstanding that we force inmates to work. But we had inmates begging to do that job.”

In fact, White says the number of interested customers appears to be increasing. All Corrections Industries operations are financed by the sale of goods and services made by inmates, and some products are reintroduced back into the prison at a lower cost—for example, in 2014, six inmates at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe grew 850 pounds of vegetables in hoop houses as part of a collaborative program with New Mexico State University. The vegetables were served in prison cafeterias.

Students from the University of New Mexico’s School of Management announced plans in 2012 to design and develop a new business model for Corrections Industries emphasizing vocational programs to teach market-relevant skills in fields like solar and automotive. But Corrections Department spokeswoman Ashley Espinoza says the effort never came into fruition.

For those who aren’t working, there is little relief inside New Mexico’s prisons. One pending federal lawsuit accuses the Corrections Department of prohibiting inmates from receiving certain photographs of their romantic partners. Another says the state has illegally crammed inmates together, including at Los Lunas, where lawyers say some live in a small dayroom on plastic cots and other areas not intended for long-term housing.

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of New Mexico in Santa Fe. The Springer Correctional Center for women is among the most severely overcrowded, but the department argues the facility is not covered by the consent decree.

Conditions in the state’s prisons “are getting worse, from my perspective,” says Matthew Coyte, a civil rights attorney in Albuquerque who has litigated dozens of lawsuits on behalf of current and former NMCD inmates. “We have a situation of understaffing and underfunding, resulting in punitive segregation being used. Limited programming is interrupted by rolling lockdowns.”

Coyte also cites ongoing epidemics of Hepatitis C in the states’ prisons. “There’s a sense of despair that exists in these facilities,” he says.

As hard as things are inside, the outside world is mostly unforgiving of former inmates. A 2015 New York Times/CBS News/ Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that men with criminal records account for about 34 percent of all nonworking men ages 25 to 54. Some who work for New Mexico Corrections Industries are able to save some money for their release—after a certain percentage is taken out for a victims’ restitution fund— but it won’t be much.

Rackley, the Buffalo Thunder desk builder at the Los Lunas prison, currently makes $1.50 for each of the 40 hours a week he works. He’s saving what he can to buy tools after he’s released.

“I’m starting from where someone fresh out of high school or trade school is starting,” says Rackley. “I’m playing catch-up to everything. You don’t want to let your people

down, your wife, your kids. You can’t do it on a minimum-wage job. It’s a lot of pressure.”

Prison strike 2018 From the prison uprisings at Attica and Santa Fe decades ago to a 2016 rebellion by inmate workers and others at the Kinross Correctional Facility in Michigan and the bloody outburst at Lee Correctional Facility in South Carolina in April, those involved have almost always announced demands that include basic physical and spiritual fulfillment and an end to corruption among prison staff.

Inmates at the South Carolina prison cited dehumanizing conditions such as a lack of sunlight, poor and insufficient food, and few rehabilitative programs as reasons they lost hope. That same month, several former prison employees were indicted for bringing drugs and other contraband into the prison, according to USA Today.

A special investigation published in September 1981 by a team of reporters from SFR, The Santa Fe New Mexican, KOAT and KUNM found that bleak living and extreme corruption and violence precipitated the prison riot here that left at least 33 people dead. Thirty-five years later, some inmates employed by Corrections Industries assisted in the NMCD’s public tours of the site of the riot, which it discontinued this year.

Before and after the riot, the flow of drugs and contraband into the prison was run “by official channels, with corrections officers and administrators acting as peddlers and pushers and procurers,” according to the team of reporters, and officials as senior as then-Warden Felix Rodriguez pilfered meat illegally from the now-shuttered Los Lunas prison cattle farm where inmates produced food for the prison system. Inmate cooks even prepared steaks for the wedding party of one of Rodriguez’ children in the mid1970s and were given special privileges to stay silent about the incident.

In addition to exploitation, inmates’ hopelessness and vindictive prison officials are also focal points for the upcoming national strike, according to Brooke Terpstra, a spokesperson for the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee. These issues can never truly be separated from each

Above left: Rows of golden oak name plates ready for shipping to agencies across New Mexico.

Below left: An official state seal is refined by inmates who are employed by Corrections Industries.

Right: Nathan Jones, an inmate at the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility, paints a golden oak name plate.

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other, Terpstra says, and inmates have characterized their resistance broadly as a human rights movement.

“The prisoners now organizing [the 2018 strikes] are coming into consciousness of themselves as a movement, and a history that dates back to the 2010 work stoppages in Georgia, work stoppages in Texas that occurred in 2014 and 2015, and hunger strikes in California in 2011 and 2013,” Terpstra says.

Thompson, the author, says many who participated in the 2016 rebellions weren’t even incarcerated workers—but they saw it as an opportunity to protest deadly prison conditions overall.

“Prisoners are resisting their exploitation, but I think they’re also using the ‘wage slavery’ argument as kind of a mechanism by which to make a broader critique and protest against the general inhumane conditions and abuse taking place,” Thompson says.

It’s unclear how widespread prison protests will be this August. The very nature of the prison system discourages solidarity among inmates by pitting them against each other in a bid for survival, says Richard Moore, an activist and former inmate who attempted to smuggle out reports of abuses and neglect from New Mexico prisons in the 1970s.

“On one side inmates need to be busy; on the other side of that, we’re doing work in there that a person on the outside would get paid $10 to $15 an hour [for],” Moore tells SFR in an interview in Albuquerque. “Just because we’re incarcerated and just because we want to work and stay busy doesn’t necessarily mean that other injustices should take place in the system.”

“It’s overlooked” Matthew Coyte, the defense attorney, says inmates’ sense of despair could be heading to a crisis point. The supposed privilege of working for rock-bottom wages instead of staying housed in the general population isn’t a solution, he suggests.

“If you maintain a lack of adequate medical care, [and] couple that with poor living conditions and the use of isolation or rolling lockdowns, you create the ingredients for a riot,” Coyte says, “and we’re all familiar with that here in New Mexico.”

In between assembling large wooden panels for the Buffalo Thunder reception desk, Allen Rackley says he’s thankful he can work while he’s incarcerated. But he appears overwhelmed by the scale of wasted time and skill he sees on a regular basis.

“There’s a lot of talent in here,” he says.

“And not just [the furniture shop]. Get inside the pen and see some of the things people sit around and do all day. It’s all overlooked. It’s overlooked, it’s overlooked, it’s not just overlooked—it’s overlooked and written off, and that’s the sad part.”

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Training Ground Girls Inc. and National Outdoor Leadership School partner to get more girls backpacking

Girls Inc. has partnered with NOLS, the renowned nonprofit wilderness education school, since 2004, sending about 22 local girls to its courses.

The broader stroke, she says, comes back to facilitating opportunities for women to find their own path.

Girls Inc. CEO Brown, who also attended a NOLS course in part so she could tell parents exactly what to expect for their girls, has developed the “enCourage” program of hikes and camping trips to lay the foundation for these trips. The organization asks that applicants complete two summers in that program to build up skills and fitness. Now, she says, she doesn’t have to work to recruit girls to apply, as the previous years’ attendees serve as ambassadors to the program.

The organization points to some of the more tangled issues in New Mexico among the goals these programs can work toward. One in three New Mexico girls report being a victim of sexual

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violence, and the state ranks second in the nation for highest teen birth rate.

They use exercises outdoors to practice establishing personal boundaries, like going rock climbing and setting a specific goal around fears and comfort level. That could mean climbing just 5 feet off the ground, instead of the 50 to the top of a route, and calling it good.

“It’s about listening to your gut and knowing when to say ‘stop,’” Brown says.

“It gives little dribbles in a safe space.”

That freedom, that self-reliance, that sense of competency and strength spill over to girls now ready to take charge, whether that’s packing up for a weekend in the woods or otherwise strategizing for a promising future. This year’s attendee takes off on July 7 for four weeks backpacking in the Pacific Northwest.

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Willard, who is from Santa Clara Pueblo, was selected to attend a National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) course in 2017, an extension of outdoor programs run by Girls Inc. that readied her for this trip by car camping and taking long hikes over summers previous. She was just 15 years old when she boarded that plane on her own. While she still hikes often with her high school outdoors club and hopes to do more backpacking trips, she says, this trip “was an experience you can only experience once, and it’s best the first time.”

“I liked being out in nature,” Willard adds. “I liked experiencing the weather, the wind in my hair. I think being outside makes me feel free.”

NOLS board member Caroline Burnett, of Santa Fe, smiles and nods along as she listens to Willard. The two sat down with Girls Inc. President and CEO Kim Brown and another NOLS course attendee, Ally Rael, to talk about the programs with SFR. Girls Inc. has partnered with NOLS, the renowned nonprofit wilderness education school, since 2004. In that time, about 22 local girls have taken these courses, perhaps the most ambitious of the self-selected courses attended being a month-long sea kayaking trip in Alaska.

Girls Inc. is a Gateway Partner, Burnett explains: “Gateway Partners real-

ly provide opportunities for youth to go on these expeditions who wouldn’t have the opportunities to go otherwise.”

NOLS spends roughly $50,000 a year on Gateway Partners, funneling more than 300 scholarships to 14- and 15-year-olds who would otherwise be unlikely to attend their programs for socioeconomic reasons. Two-week trips can cost about $3,600, and four-week programs run roughly $6,500. Girls Inc. fundraises to cover the plane ticket and essential gear like new hiking boots, taking attendees to REI for the kind of shopping trip most dirtbags only ever dream of.

Four years after her trip to the Adirondacks, which she describes as a place that’s all steep uphill terrain, Rael is still hiking in those boots, and, having aged out of Girls Inc.’s programs, now works with the organization. Those two weeks of backpacking included stretches in which she had to carry her backpack over her head through wetlands, Rael says, and deal with the unexpected challenges of a concussion and an allergic reaction among her teammates.

“It was a really big learning lesson in how much a 14-year-old can do,” says Rael, who had never before been out of Santa Fe without her parents. “It was hard to not have someone to rely on, so I had to learn how to rely on myself.”

Expedition courses are structured so the NOLS leader swaps duties with the attendees, tasking teenagers with route-finding, cooking and other necessary backcountry skills. Burnett calls that “expedition behavior,” which provides experience both in taking charge of a situation and in discovering the point when it’s time “to accept help when you need it, which is not easy for any of us.”

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THE GREAT OUTDOORS You wait for it all year long, and it’s finally here— the 2018 Santa Fe Bandstand series. And it all starts this week. Where else can you find so many local and touring musicians playing their hearts our for free, outside and so regularly?

Nowhere, that’s where. Tonight find sets from beloved local rock-meets-zydeco act Felix y los Gatos and the inimitable Chuck Prophet, one of the last remaining rock stars we have left.

Prophet’s latest, 2017’s Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins, has won critical acclaim pretty much across the board and his subtle punk underpinnings make him the kind of guy who oughta speak to anyone and everyone. Bring a blanket, don’t smoke, have fun. (Alex De Vore)

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Santa Fe Bandstand Opening Night with Felix y los Gatos and Chuck Prophet: 6 pm Thursday June 21. Free. Santa Fe Plaza, 100 Old Santa Fe Trail.

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MUSIC SUN/24 TOP BILLING Musician Bill Palmer splits his time between doing his own thing and producing a veritable cavalcade of local bands’ albums. And with so many musical outfits having worked with the guy up at Frogville Studios, it’s only natural that a whole mess of them would get together for Billfest, a free festival-type show at Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery. Alright, so maybe this isn’t the kind of thing that happens all the time, but it’s massive (St. Range, The Palm in the Cypress and Boris McCutcheon are just a few acts slated to appear), totally free and we hear there’ll be food trucks and beer. (ADV) Billfest: 2-10 pm Sunday June 24. Free.

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery, 2791 Agua Fria St., 303-3808.

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EVENT TUE/26 SKATE ‘N’ SING Listen to us very carefully, for we are about to unleash upon the earth some of the most important information in the history our community: There’s a freaking night of rollerskating karaoke at Rockin’ Rollers Event Arena. Y’heard.

For a mere $5, you and your (presumably drunk) friends get a skate rental and access to what can only be the weirdest and most Xanadu-esque night of skating and singing fun you’ve ever had.

Keep in mind that this is not an event for children, but that the alien décor and arcade games at the rink practically make it worth it alone. The too-serious need not show up. (ADV) Roller’Oke: 7-10 pm Tuesday June 26. $5.

Rockin’ Rollers Event Arena, 2915 Agua Fria St., 473-7755.

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All Ages Welcome We’re here! We’re queer!

We’re family-friendly!

Last year, when the Santa Fe Pride Parade took to the evening time, with several of the corresponding festivities occurring in bars and beer gardens, the Santa Fe Community Foundation saw a gap to fill: What about families with children? This year, they’ve thoroughly rallied to create Rainbow Family Pride, a family-focused fest meant to supplement the city’s main Pride events, which take place the following weekend.

Specifically, Family Pride is the idea of The Envision Fund, an initiative of the Community Foundation to serve at-risk and underserved LGBTQ New Mexicans.

“The committee was motivated to include families, especially when some of their children are part of the LGBTQ community,” says Jamie Aranda, a representative of the Community Foundation. “We wanted to have a more inclusive event for all ages, all families.”

The event, at Railyard Park, promises fun and games galore, and commensurate community resources. There’ll be games and prizes, a bouncy house obstacle course, a DJ, face painting, temporary tattoos, a “fun tunnel” and food trucks; also, information from Casa Familia, Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families, the Santa Fe Children’s Museum, Transgender Re-

source Center of New Mexico and over a dozen more local organizations.

Such resources may provide crucial support amid nationwide anti-transgender “bathroom bills” in schools and a White House that has tellingly failed to acknowledge LGBTQ Pride Month for the second year in a row. A report released last year by the New Mexico Department of Health found that LGBTQ youth were at increased risk for unstable housing, self-injury and attempted suicide, alcohol abuse and dating violence. Only 19 states have enacted anti-bullying legislation to protect LGBTQ students, and New Mexico is not among them.

“We just hope that it brings the LGBTQ community closer together here,” Aranda says. Envision Fund plans to make Family Pride an annual tradition.

Albuquerque and other cities have family Pride events, Aranda notes, and, she adds, “Santa Fe is a family town. Everyone is invited.” (Eva Rosenfeld)

RAINBOW FAMILY PRIDE Noon-3 pm Saturday June 23. Free.

Railyard Park, Guadalupe Street and Cerrillos Road, 988-9715

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WED/20 BOOKS/LECTURES BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 In a program for babies 6 months to 2 years old (and their caregivers), join a play and language group to enjoy books, songs and finger games.

10:30 am, free BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Miss the earlier one downtown (see above)? Here’s another.

4 pm, free DHARMA TALK BY KIGAKU NOAH ROSSETTER Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 This week's talk is entitled "The Flow of the Mountains."

5:30 pm, free FAMILY SEPARATION ON THE BORDER: AN EVENING OF EDUCATION First Christian Church 645 Webber St., 983-3343 The Santa Fe Dreamers Project hosts an evening of education about family separation on our border and the president's "zero tolerance" policy.

5:30 pm, free FIRESIDE CHAT: BELLE BROOKE Meltdown Studio 3209 Mercantile Court, Ste. B, 310-770-2812 Join a sit-down with jewelry designer Belle Brooke.

5:30 pm, free MEET THE ARTIST: HARRIET CASLIN Santa Fe Clay 545 Camino de la Familia, 984-1122 British ceramic designer Caslin takes a break from leading her week-long workshop to answer questions about the creative process.

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Seems the whole town is a’twitter about the intersections of art and tech these days, and Turner Carroll Gallery is on board with Science as Art, opening Friday. Paper artist Matthew Shlian, whose work you see here, writes: “Researchers see paper engineering as a metaphor for scientific principles; I see their inquiry as a basis for artistic inspiration.” The resulting sculptural paper creations are both visually arresting and scientifically sound.

MIDDLE LENGTH LAM-RIM Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center 1807 Second St., Ste. 35, 660-7056 In weekly classes taught

by Geshe Thubten Sherab, learn about Lam Rim—it means "Stages of the Path" in Tibetan, and refers to the entire Buddhist path to enlightenment. Lama Tsongkhapa’s Middle Length Lam-Rim is a synthesis of the essential instructions that support the progressive stages of meditation and practice.

6:30 pm, free

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PEOPLE TO PEOPLE GALLERY CONVERSATIONS: MEGAN JACOBS New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Be a fly on the wall for a casual conversation between Curator of Photography Katherine Ware and artist Megan Jacobs about family and personal identity. This program invites diverse personal perspectives and insights into the exhibition Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives. Free with museum admission.

12:30 pm, $6-$12

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Get yourself and your kid out of the house and see other real live humans.

10:45 am, free SANTA FE STUDIO TOUR ACADEMIC EVENING Community Gallery 201 W Marcy St., 982-0436 In conjunction with the studio tour (which includes 59 stops this year), enjoy a a panel discussion between tour artists. santafestudiotour.com has all the info.

6 pm, free

EVENTS CURRENTS NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL Various locations With work from artists around the world, this is Santa Fe's premier festival for interactive and immersive installations, virtual reality environments, robotics and more. Catch live music, pop-up performances and more. Events of varying costs (including free!) happen all over town. Get all the info, costs, locations and schedules at currentsnewmedia.org.

Various times, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Good quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free RODEO DE SANTA FE Rodeo de Santa Fe 3237 Rodeo Road, 471-4300 The carnival starts at 3 pm, and then the main attraction ‘n’ competition kicks of at 5 pm. And yes, there's controversy about rodeos, but everyone loves corn-related foods, ferris wheels and fried stuff, so at least go for those.

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WELLS PETROGLYPH PRESERVE PUBLIC TOUR Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project 1431 Hwy. 68, Velarde, 852-1351 The 181-acre preserve contains over 10,000 petroglyphs, so take a twohour tour to see some of them. Pre-registration is required, so get on it!

9:30-11:30 am, $35

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SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Folk ‘n’ Western.

5:30-7:30 pm, free VINCENT COPIA Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Americana.

6 pm, free

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DJ SAGGALIFFIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, acid lounge, half-time and dance tunes.

10 pm, free ELECTRIC JAM Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Plug it in and rock out.

7:30 pm, free ERYN BENT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country and folky Americana.

8 pm, free JOAQUIN GALLEGOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Soulful flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free MIKE NICHOLSON Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free MUSIC ON THE HILL: TRACEY WHITNEY QUINTET St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 Head to the college's athletic field and bring a blanket and a picnic for some jazz. Take a shuttle from the PERA Building (413 Old Santa Fe Trail).

6 pm, free OPEN MIC NIGHT Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Play a love song. We love love songs. These evenings are run by beloved local sound dude Jason Reed.

6:30 pm, free RAMON BERMUDEZ JR. TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Latin and smooth jazz guitar.

6 pm, free SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Golden Age standards.

6:30-9:30 pm, free SANTA FE MEGABAND REHEARSAL Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Join an open community band which provides an opportunity for musicians to get together and play acoustic string band music.

7 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

7:30 pm, free

INTRODUCTION TO ZEN Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Explore the basics and finer points of good posture and finding a comfortable meditation position, plus a chance to go over questions and instruction in Zen meditation.

5 pm, free

THU/21 BOOKS/LECTURES PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 New stories!

11 am, free

DANCE O2 SWING NIGHT Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 What’s your style? Dance East Coast, West Coast, Lindy, Balboa, Fusion, and anything else you want to do.

There's a lesson from 8-9 pm, then get swinging from 9 pm to midnight.

8 pm, $10 PERPETUAL MOTION Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 The Oklahoma-based modern and aerial dance company gives pop-up performances throughout the exhibit at scattered times all day, included with admission.

10 am-6 pm, $17-$25

EVENTS CURRENTS NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL Various locations Check out Santa Fe's premier festival for interactive and immersive installations, virtual reality environments, robotics and more. Catch live music, pop-up performances and more. Events of varying costs (including free!) happen all around town; for all the info: currentsnewmedia.org.

Various times, free COMEDY NIGHT: DARRYL RHOADES Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, Pojoaque, 984-8414 Writer and performer Rhoades employs rapid-fire delivery and satirical music.

Go laugh at stuff, it’ll probaly feel really good.

6:30 pm, $10

COMMUNITY DAY AT THE GARDEN Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Celebrate the solstice with free admission to the garden for New Mexico residents and students (please provide ID).

9 am-5 pm, free COMMUNITY GRADUATION CELEBRATION Zona Del Sol 6601 Jaguar Drive, 474-6859 A celebration of the educational accomplishments of all of Santa Fe at a free, fun, music-filled barbecue reception and awards ceremony.

RSVP to 303-9635 to let them know you're coming.

6-8 pm, free DUMP THE PUMP DAY Various locations Ride public transit today to see how you might get around without a car. Transit agencies from throughout northern and central New Mexico converge at the South Capitol Rail Runner Station (1301 Alta Vista St., between St. Francis Drive and Cerrillos Road) from 6-9 am with coffee, donuts and giveaways.

(PS, the calendar editor has started walking to work on occasion, and it’s kind of an awesome feel-good habit.)

All day, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

7 pm, free RODEO DE SANTA FE Rodeo de Santa Fe 3237 Rodeo Road, 471-4300 It starts really early in the morning with all the stuff that didn't fit in last night, takes a break during the hottest part of the day, then kicks up again with the carnival at 3 pm and more competition at 5 pm.

We go for the kettle corn.

7:30 am-11:30 pm, $10-$37 STEPHEN AUGER: IRIS Axle Contemporary 670-5854 The IRIS sensorium hovers at an electric intersection of neuroscience, art, and entertainment. Today it's at Meow Wolf (1352 Rufina Circle).

Head to the mobile gallery and climb into a small space where sounds and lights will induce visualizations. Sounds trippy. Book your appointment ahead of time, though, because this will likely fill up—that's at axleart.com/iris.

3-8 pm, free ¡VÁMONOS! SANTA FE: WALK WITH A DOC Villa Linda Park Wagon Wheel Road What better motivation to walk than when you can talk to someone while you do it?

Head to the Arroyo Chamiso trail to go for a stroll with Dr. Matt Jackson of Christus St. Vincent. For more info, check out sfct.org/vamonos.

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FOOD

SHAKE ALERT

SIT, STAY, SUPPORT Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 The restaurant donates $1 from every brew to Española Humane.

5-9 pm, free

8:00 PM Doors $5

MUSIC

MOTOFINA

Vintage Motorcycle show

ESCAPE ON A HORSE

12 - 5 PM Motofina 5:30-7:30 Music FREE

Saturday 6/30 WE ARE FAMILY

All ages pride celebration Featuring Hella Bella

RUFINA TAPROOM

2920 Rufina St Santa Fe, NM 87507 8:00 PM Doors / $5/$8/$10 www.secondstreetbreweryrufina.com

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ANDY KINGSTON El Mesón 213 Washington Ave.,983-6756 A funky jazz trio.

7 pm, free BIRD THOMPSON The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road, 557-6435 Adult contemporary with a Buddhist twist.

10 am, free DJ INKY The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Punk, funk, soul, rock 'n' roll, old-school country y más.

9 pm, free FOOL'S PLAY Starlight Lounge at Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 428-7777 A jazzy trio featuring sax, piano and percussion.

6 pm, $2 THE GOATHEADS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rockin’ blues.

7 pm, free GOT SOUL El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Soulful jazz.

10 pm, free GREG BUTERA Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Cajun honky-tonk.

6 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Americana ‘n’ honky-tonk.

7 pm, free I.CONSCIOUS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Original reggae from Zuni.

10 pm, free JONO MANSON Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Rock 'n' roll.

5 pm, free LITTLE MAZARN Kitchen Sink Recording Studio 528 Jose St., 699-4323 Unconventional takes on traditional Appalachian repertoire, combined with expertly attuned musical saw and keyboard drones from Lindsey Verrill and Jeff Johnston.

7:30 pm, $20 MIKE NICHOLSON Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, pop and opera on piano and vocals.

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NEXT 2 THE TRACKS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Outlaw country.

10 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free RON ROUGEAU The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Acoustic songs from the ‘60s, ‘70s and beyond.

5:30 pm, free SANTA FE BANDSTAND: CHUCK PROPHET Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail After an opener by local Chicano-rock favorites Felix y Los Gatos, don't miss legendary "California-noir" indie rocker Prophet’s poignant tunes (see SFR Picks, page 21).

6 pm, free SENIOR HIGH REVELATION CHOIR CONCERT St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 An 80-member high schoolage choir from Custer Road UMC in Plano, Texas, presents a concert that reflects on the idea of water found in the Bible in styles from Beethoven to rap.

7:30 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

7:30 pm, free TIM NOLEN AND RAILYARD REUNION Derailed at the Sage Inn 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Bluegrass and Americana.

6 pm, free DECKER. Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Psychedelic desert folk.

8 pm, free

THEATER RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Two best friends—one a housewife, one a career-driven bachelorette—both unfulfilled and both coveting the other's life, get together. You can imagine what goes down.

Or can you?

7:30 pm, $5-$15 THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 When sweethearts Brad and Janet's car breaks down, they end up at a mysterious castle where Dr. Frank-N-Furter and his team of eccentric companions show them a world they never knew existed. This performance's guest narrator is actor and radio personality Stephen Jules Rubin.

Recommended for 18+.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP DRAWING MODERN: GEOMETRIC LANDSCAPES Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Take an intimate look at Georgia O’Keeffe and Michael Namingha’s perspectives from the past and present, then make your own desert-inspired drawing.

5:30-7:30 pm, $18-$35 I-BEST INFORMATION SESSION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Looking to get your education and career prospects back on track? Learn more about the I-BEST program in room 515.

1:30 pm, free MAKE MUSIC DAY Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Join the fine folks from The Candyman Strings & Things to take ukulele or guitar lessons. Instruments provided!

11 am-2 pm, free

FRI/22 ART OPENINGS SCIENCE AS ART Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road, 986-9800 Artists Shawn Smith, Rusty Scruby and Matthew Shlian deconstruct the categorizations of science and art.

Through July 16.

5 pm, free GRAND OPENING RECEPTION Brant Mackley Gallery and Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo de Peralta, 670-2447 Join the two galleries in their humungous shared space to celebrate the grand opening of the venue. Brant Mackley Gallery showcases antique American Indian and world tribal art; Obscura focuses on contemporary photography from around the world.

4 pm, free GREGORY HORNDESKI: MUSIC PAINTINGS Horndeski Contemporary 716 Canyon Road, 231-3731 Painter Horndeski paints musical scores onto the frames of various pieces.

Through Aug. 25.

5 pm, free PARALLEL UNIVERSES Zalma Lofton Gallery 407 S Guadalupe St., 670-5179 A show of the weird, of the imagination gone wild, dreams and nightmares and fantastic other realms.

5 pm, free PATRICK McFARLIN: TANGENTS ON PUBLICATIONS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 McFarlin, a painter, drawer and sculptor of landscapes, presents narrative works based on backwoods stories.

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COURTESY COMA RECOVERY

Wake Up Albuquerque’s Coma Recovery set to slay the Railyard

BY ALEX DE VORE @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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ith the summer about to explode into a series of probably pretty fun but ultimately pretty safe (tired?) musical experiences, accept a recommendation to the nonold-folks-set and and those interested in something that hits a little harder: Albuqeruque post-hardcore act Coma Recovery at the Railyard this Saturday. It’s a bit of a surprise that a heavier project would take that particular stage, but here we are and here is good—do not gather your family and leave before the show’s over, or we’ll never get kickass shows like this on a regular basis.

So lemme help, because there’s a long history behind the Coma Recovery starting way back in ye olden days circa early 2000-and-something when principal songwriter and guitarist Tommy Morris unleashed the three-piece act Pixel Vision on an unsuspecting Warehouse 21 crowd.

Before that, Morris says he’d played in high-school cover bands that payed homage to legendary post-punk heavy-hitters like Hot Water Music, but by the time he evolved Pixel Vision into Coma Recovery around 2003, he was far more interested in a hands-on approach and originality. To this day, he writes the bulk of the material.

Cue a number of years wherein everyone who saw or heard the band fell in love with their heavy-yet-pretty soundscapes and post-hardcore style. Coma Recovery has always deftly incorporated numerous influences into a cohesive vision. At times,

The only thing I really care about is writing music and letting that music exist in the world and in people’s heads.

-Tommy Morris

it’s easy to draw comparisons to records like Snapcase’s 2000 stunner Designs for Automotion; other moments sound like tragically under-appreciated bands such as Blueprint Car Crash (look ’em up, seriously) but slightly less mathy and worlds more rocking despite the oftentimes odd time signatures and cacophonous movements. Even aspects akin to the darker and more layered work of Radiohead find a home within Coma Recovery’s work, while bassist Dustin Casteel lays it down hard and singer Travis Wozniak’s unearthly vocals set a fucking mood. “It’s always evolving on its own,” Morris explains of the sound. “I honestly don’t think I could articulate to you a clear mission, soundwise.”

But the band began scaling back following the release of what is arguably its best work, Godverb, in 2011. Shows were pared down to roughly three a year

MUSIC and momentum started to slow. Then, in 2013, keyboardist Jimmy Frick died in a ziplining accident outside Santa Fe. Morris says Frick’s death was obviously difficult, but that it worked its way into his songwriting. “Jimmy was involved during a developmental time, and I think about him often, especially while playing music,” Morris says. “But we didn’t have a solid band for quite awhile.”

Just a couple weeks ago, Morris turned 36 and started reflecting on what has been and what’s to come. He says the milestone has revitalized him to an extent, but that in the last year Coma Recovery had already started stepping up again. Former Future Scars drummer Ben Durfee has been added to the permanent roster, and together they’re slowly but surely putting together new material. Last April, the band released the Apotheosis EP on Deep Elm Records, a satisfying selection of three songs that Morris says “just made sense together.”

But the release was also a reminder of sorts that Coma Recovery is still out there. The addition of Durfee has opened up new songwriting possibilities according to Morris, and the ultimate goal is to get to work on a full-length album within the next few months. “I think it’s going to change how we work,” Morris says of having Durfee on board. “It’s been years since we’ve had a broader spectrum like that, but the only thing I really care about is writing music and letting that music exist in the world and in people’s heads.”

They probably won’t tour, though.

Maybe regionally. Morris says he just doesn’t know for the moment, and points out that recording new songs is at the top of the priority list. Similarly, this Saturday show should have a place on your own list.

Coma Recovery does not disappoint.

COMA RECOVERY WITH THE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR 7 pm Saturday June 23. Free.

Santa Fe Railyard, Market and Alcaldesa Streets, 982-3373

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I am a 24-year-old straight guy who recently broke up with my girlfriend of more than four years. One of the reasons we broke up was a general lack of sexually compatibility. She had a particular aversion to oral sex—both giving and receiving. I didn’t get a blowjob the whole time we were together. Which brings me to why I am writing: One of my closest friends, “Sam,” is a gay guy. Shortly after breaking up with my girlfriend, I was discussing my lack of oral sex with Sam and he said he’d be willing to “help me out.” I agreed, and Sam gave me an earth-shattering blowjob. I was glad to get some and had no hang-ups about a guy sucking me. Since then, Sam has blown me three more times. My problem is I am starting to feel guilty and worry I am using Sam. He’s a very good buddy, and I’m concerned this lopsided sexual arrangement might be bad for our friendship. Sam knows I am not into guys and I’m never going to reciprocate, and I feel like this is probably not really fair to him. But these are literally the only blowjobs I’ve received since I was a teenager. What should I do?

-Totally Have Reservations Over Advantage Taking Only one person knows how Sam feels about this “lopsided sexual arrangement,” THROAT, and it isn’t me—it’s Sam. Zooming out for a second: People constantly ask me how the person they’re fucking or fisting or flogging feels about all the fucking or fisting or flogging they’re doing. Guys ask me why a woman ghosted them, and women ask me if their boyfriend is secretly gay. And while I’m perfectly happy to speculate, I’m not a mind reader. Which means I have no way of knowing for sure why that woman ghosted you or if your boyfriend is gay—or in your case, THROAT, how Sam feels about the four norecip blowjobs he’s given you.

Only Sam knows.

And that’s why I wrote you back, THROAT, and asked you for Sam’s contact information.

Since you were clearly too afraid to ask Sam yourself (most likely for fear the blowjobs would stop), I offered to ask Sam on your behalf. I wasn’t serious—it was my way of saying, “You should really ask Sam.” But you sent me Sam’s contact info, and a few minutes later I was chatting with Sam. “Yes, I have been sucking my straight friend’s cock,” Sam said to me. “And I am flattered he told you I was good at it. That’s an ego booster!”

Sam, like THROAT, is 24 years old. He grew up on the East Coast and met THROAT early in his first year at college. Sam came out at the end of his freshman year, to THROAT and his other friends, and he now lives in a big city where he works in marketing when he isn’t sucking off THROAT. My first question for Sam: Is he one of those gay guys who get off on “servicing” straight guys?

“I’ve never done anything with a straight guy before this,” said Sam. “So, no, I’m not someone who is ‘into servicing straight guys.’ I have only ever dated and hooked up with gay guys before!”

So why offer to blow THROAT? “I didn’t know until after he broke up with his girlfriend that he hadn’t gotten a blowjob the whole time they were together—four years!”

Sam said. “When I told him I’d be happy to help him out, I was joking. I swear I wasn’t making a pass at my straight friend! But there was this long pause, and then he got serious and said he’d be into it. I wondered for a minute if it would be weird for me to blow my friend, and there was definitely a bit of convincing each other that we were serious. When he started taking his clothes off, I thought, ‘So this is going to happen.’ It was not awkward after. We even started joking about it right away. I have sucked

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him off four more times since then.”

For those of you keeping score at home: Either THROAT lost count of the number of times Sam has blown him—THROAT said Sam has blown him three more times after that first blowjob—or THROAT got a fifth blowjob in the short amount of time that elapsed between sending me his letter and putting me in touch with Sam. So does this lopsided sexual arrangement— blowing a straight boy who’s never going to blow him—bother Sam? “I suppose it is a ‘lopsided sexual arrangement,’” said Sam. “But I don’t mind. I really like sucking dick and I’m really enjoying sucking his dick. He has a really nice dick! And from my perspective, we’re both having fun. And, yes, I’ve jacked off thinking about it after each time I sucked him. I know—now—that he thinks it is a bit unfair to me. But I don’t feel that way at all.”

So there is something in it for Sam. You get the blowjobs, THROAT, and Sam gets the spank-bankable memories. And Sam assumes that at some point, memories are all he’ll have.

“He will eventually get into a relationship with a woman again, and our arrangement will end,” said Sam. “I only hope nothing is weird between us in the future because of what has happened in the past few weeks.”

I had one last question: Sam is really good at sucking cock—he gives “earth-shattering” blowjobs—but is THROAT any good at getting his cock sucked? As all experienced cocksuckers know, a person can suck at getting their cock sucked: They can just lay/stand/sit there, giving you no feedback, or be too pushy or not pushy enough, etc.

“That’s a really good question,” Sam said.

“I have to say, he is very good at it. He really gets into it, he moans, he talks about how good it feels, and he lasts a long time. That’s part of what makes sucking his cock so much fun.”

I’m a straight guy in a LTR with a bi woman.

We recently had a threesome with a bi male acquaintance. We made it clear that I’m not into guys and that she was going to be the center of attention. He said he was fine with this.

A little bit into us hooking up, he said he wanted to suck my dick. I wasn’t sure about it at first, but my girlfriend encouraged it because she thought it was hot. I ended up saying yes, but I stated that I didn’t want to reciprocate.

A bit later, while my girlfriend was sucking his dick, he said he wanted me to join her. I said no, he kept badgering me to do it, I kept saying no, and then he physically tried to shove my head down toward his crotch. My girlfriend and I both got pissed and said he had to leave.

Now he’s bitching to our mutual friends about how I had an insecure straight-boy freak-out, he didn’t get to come after we both got ours, we’re shitty selfish fetishists, and so on. I’m concerned about what our friends think of me, but even more so, I’m concerned that I did a shitty thing. I get that maybe he was hoping I’d change my mind, especially after I changed my mind about him sucking my dick. But I don’t think it’s fair for him to be angry that I didn’t.

Is oral reciprocation so necessary that it doesn’t matter that we agreed in advance that I would not be blowing him?

-Not One To Be Inconsiderate You did nothing wrong. And if after hearing your side of the story, NOTBI, your mutual friends side with a person who pressured you to do something you were clear about not wanting to do and then, after you restated your opposition to performing said act, pressured you to perform the act—by physically forcing your head down to his cock—you can solve the “mutual friends” problem by cutting these so-called friends out of your life.

On the Lovecast, what makes a kinkster a kinkster?: savagelovecast.com mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter ITMFA.org

RACHEL HOUSEMAN: SUPERBLOOMS! CLOSING RECEPTION Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fria St., 928-308-0319 It's your last chance to pick up Houseman's limited-edition artist book, for which she has created 40 vibrant desert flower paintings.

5 pm, free RICK STEVENS: DANCING IN PARADOX Hunter Kirkland Contemporary 200 Canyon Road, 984-2111 With roots as a landscape painter, Stevens now considers himself an abstract painter (see AC, page 31).

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES CREATIVEMORNINGS: IRVIN AND EMILY TRUJILLO New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Get coffee, bagels and networking with Irvin Trujillo and his daughter Emily as they discuss the Rio Grande weaving tradition.

9 am, free EUGENIA PARRY: GALLERY TALK New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Art historian Parry discusses Patrick Nagatani's photography.

5:30 pm, free RICHARD BALTHAZAR: AZTEC GODS El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Investigate the iconography and mythology of the 10 main gods in the show and hear remarks on the several appearing in cameo roles and in the calendar.

6 pm, free

DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25 PERPETUAL MOTION Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 The Oklahoma-based modern and aerial dance company performs throughout the day.

10 am-6 pm, $17-$25

EVENTS CURRENTS NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL Various locations With work from artists around the world, this is Santa Fe's premier festival for interactive and immersive installations, virtual reality environments, robotics and more. Events of varying costs (including free!) happen all around town. Get info: currentsnewmedia.org.

Various times, free

OPEN HOUSE Santa Fe Recovery Center 5312 Jaguar Drive, 471-4985 The center is expanding to better serve Northern New Mexico; learn more about it.

3-6 pm, free RODEO DE SANTA FE Rodeo de Santa Fe 3237 Rodeo Road, 471-4300 Mutton-bustin', rodeo clowns, barrel-racin' ladies who go by in a blur, ice cream, funnel cake ‘n’ oversized cans of beer.

7:30 am-11:30 pm, $10-$37 STEPHEN AUGER: IRIS Axle Contemporary 670-5854 Climb inside a small space and experience sound and light frequencies that induce visualizations of spirals, fractals, waves, radials, zigzags, honeycombs and pinwheels. Today it's in the Farmers Market shade structure (Market and Alcaldesa Streets). Book your appointment at axleart.com/iris.

5-8 pm, free

MUSIC BADDA BOOM BRASS BAND The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place, 557-6182 A New Orleans-style brass band blends the street music tradition of the Crescent City with elements of funk, rock, hip-hop, pop and world music.

6 pm, free BROTHER COYOTE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Folk ballads.

7 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Local musician Charles Tichenor and pals get together for a musical respite from the outside world.

6 pm, free DJ DYNAMITE SOL Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, funk, reggaeton and hip-hop.

10 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Broadway faves and standards on piano.

6 pm, $2 DIRTY RAIN REVELERS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Head to the deck for some New Orleans-based roots rock, blues and Americana.

5 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND MIKE NICHOLSON Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards: Doug starts, Mike takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free

JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll to dance to.

9 pm, $5 JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free KEY FRANCES BAND Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Funky and rockin' blues.

8 pm, free NOAH MURO Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free THE PORTER DRAW Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock ‘n’ roll and indie tunes.

8 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free SANTA FE BANDSTAND: BLACK PEARL Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Are you picky about genre?

This nine-piece horn-based variety band performs R&B, old-school, top-40, country, rancheras, cumbia, and waltzes.

6 pm, free THE SURF LORDS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Kings of the waves of Albuquerque.

8:30 pm, free T SISTERS Kitchen Sink Recording Studio 528 Jose St., 699-4323 The Tietjen sisters present a fresh and soulful take on folk and Americana.

7:30 pm, $20 TGIF RECITAL: ESSO First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 The Eternal Summer String Orchestra presents works by Telemann and Mozart.

5:30 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 A swinging jazz trio.

7:30 pm, free TONIC JAZZ SHOWCASE Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 Get some late-night stylings.

9:30 pm, free TRIBUTE TO CHORO Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 Choro is to Brazilian music what ragtime is to American jazz. We’re intrigued. Call 946-7934 for tickets.

7 pm, $20-$25 VANILLA POP Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Every cover you could ever want. It’s worth the ten-spot.

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WATERMELON MOUNTAIN JUG BAND Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 For 42 years (no really), some iteration or another of this band has been bringing the folk tunes.

6 pm, free THE ZIG ZAGS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock ‘n’ roll.

8 pm, free

with Andrew Wice

THEATER RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 An unflinching look at gender politics and feminist ideals.

7:30 pm, $5-$15 THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 If you don't know about this cult musical by now, what the hell?! (But virgins are, as ever, welcome.)

7:30 pm, $15-$25

SAT/23 ART OPENINGS THE ART OF WALT GONSKE: A RETROSPECTIVE Nedra Matteucci Galleries 1075 Paseo de Peralta, 983-2731 An ambitious overview of four decades of art by New Mexico’s highly regarded master of plein air painting.

Through July 21.

1-3 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES DAVID CARSON: THE MEDICINE CARDS The Ark 133 Romero St., 988-3709 Carson (Choctaw) discusses how to discover your own spirit clan.

6-8 pm, free MORGAN SMITH: HIDDEN ANDALUSIA Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 Learn all about small-town life in southern Spain in a slide lecture that focuses on Andalusia.

5 pm, free

DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25 PERPETUAL MOTION Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 The Oklahoma-based modern and aerial dance company has created characters and performances that inhabit the exhibit.

10 am-6 pm, $17-$25

COURTESY ANDREW WICE

Madrid resident Andrew Wice is a screenwriter and author of seven novels, including To The Last Drop: A Novel of Water, Oppression and Rebellion. For his next project, Wice collaborates with legendary local musician Joe West for the first ever Madrid Film Festival, a gathering of locally produced films from any genre imaginable.

Filmmakers are invited to submit films of any length that range from animation to zombie flicks to documentaries (by Monday July 16, submit to joewestmusic@hotmail.com with “submission” as the subject line). Submissions are free. The inaugural festival kicks off at the historic Engine House Theater (2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743) on Friday and Saturday Aug. 10 and 11, but we caught up with Wice ahead of time to pose a couple queries. (Roan Lee-Plunket) This is Madrid’s first-ever film festival. What are your hopes and expectations for the event?

With no entry fee or formal restrictions, the idea is to encourage this exceptionally creative area to focus on filmmaking this summer. We hope this festival provokes people to submit a film they’ve recently made, or create a new one. Perhaps this suddenly announced deadline for submissions might strike unexpectedly like lightning, igniting a wildfire of creativity. Sorry, it’s fire season.

What other projects have you worked on before this?

Joe West has been producing the gleefully macabre Theater of Death anthology series for six years now. We’ve both made short movies and are awed by film’s sense-supremacy. I will soon be launching the Madrid Oral History Tour, a smartphone-based self-guided tour of Madrid with stories told by the people who lived them. Joe is a professional musician, and I’m primarily a writer, but we’re both exploring new ways to tell stories.

How do you think this film festival will relate to the rest of the film culture in New Mexico?

I think this film festival will click with the growing film culture in New Mexico. The film industry remains one of the state’s best assets. Short films are a great way to try out ideas and techniques. The current independent film culture is still aspirational but growing rapidly; the festival will give us an idea about how it is developing.

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BIRD WALK Randall Davey Audubon Center 1800 Upper Canyon Road, 983-4609 A guided birding hike with experienced bird nerds.

8:30-10 am, free BIRD WALK WITH ROCKY TUCKER Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve 27283 West Frontage Road, La Cienega, 471-9103 Spend a morning in the unique wetland habitat and learn about the diversity of birds.

8-10 am, free CURRENTS NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL Various locations Santa Fe's premier festival for new media. For all the info, check currentsnewmedia.org.

Various times, free FEROCIOUS FEMINISTS FIGHT FOR QUEER LIBERATION Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 Catch a performance by this year's Santa Fe Pride King Quinn Fontaine, plus a onehour open mic, ideally for topics related to LGBTQIA and/or gender issues.

6 pm, $7-$10 GREYHOUND MEET 'N' GREET Teca Tu DeVargas Center, 165 Paseo de Peralta, 982-9374 The Greyhound Adoption League of New Mexico and Texas brings out their adoptable long bois.

11 am-1 pm, free HUGE GARAGE SALE FOR ANIMALS Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Buy someone else's stuff, benefit the Heart & Soul Animal Sanctuary, everyone wins!

8 am-2 pm, free MADRID GYPSY FESTIVAL Oscar Huber Ballpark 2895 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 87010 Head down for the 16th annual family-friendly fest for performers, artists, merchants, friends, and live music. Get henna tattoo, have your tintype taken, make friends.

11 am-7:30 pm, $5-$10 RAINBOW FAMILY PRIDE Railyard Plaza Market and Alcadesa Streets, 982-3373 The Envision Fund presents an inclusive event for children, teens, young adults, rainbow families, and any and all folks who want to celebrate their LGBTQ+ community (see SFR Picks, page 21).

Noon-3 pm, free RODEO DE SANTA FE Rodeo de Santa Fe 3237 Rodeo Road, 471-4300 Mutton-bustin', rodeo clowns, ice cream, funnel cake, oversized cans of beer. Enjoy the carnival at 3 pm and more competition at 5 pm.

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SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Get your fill of art from a juried group of local artists.

8 am-2 pm, free SANTA FE STUDIO TOUR Various locations Meet local artists, experience their artistic environments and purchase art. A map is available on the website at santafestudiotour.com.

10 am-5 pm, free

MUSIC BERT DALTON TRIO Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 Jazz with Latin flavors.

9:30 pm, free BOOMROOTS COLLECTIVE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Reggae meets hip-hop.

9 pm, $5 THE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR Railyard Plaza Market and Alcadesa Streets, 982-3373 Mood punk and cozmic soul tunes, with local support from post-hardcore prog-rockers The Coma Recovery.

7 pm, free BROTHER COYOTE The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Folky rock.

6:30 pm, free BROTHER E CLAYTON Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Rock and soul.

6 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Vive la révolution!

6 pm, free CONNIE LONG AND FAST PATSY Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Rockabilly, country ’n’ Western.

8 pm, free D'SANTI NAVA MUSIC TRIO Studio Nia 851 W San Mateo Road, 989-1299 D'Santiago "El Brujo" Nava blends his Indigenous cultures, love of classic rock, classical guitar training, nuevo flamenco and all eras of blues.

7:30 pm, $15 DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Broadway tunes ‘n’ standards.

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND MIKE NICHOLSON Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards: Doug starts, Mike takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free ESCAPE ON A HORSE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Alt-country, soul and rock.

10 pm, $5

JAY HENEGHAN QUARTET El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Eclectic classic jazz.

7:30 pm, free JOAQUIN GALLEGOS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Soulful flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free JULIAN DOSSETT TRIO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Delta blues on the deck.

3 pm, free KITTY JO CREEK Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluegrass.

1 pm, free KITTY JO CREEK Derailed at the Sage Inn 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Miss ‘em earlier? Here’s more.

6 pm, free KYLE MARTIN BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Honky-tonk and rock.

8:30 pm, free LOS PRIMOS MELØDICOS Cava Lounge Eldorado Hotel, 309 W San Francisco St., 988-4455 Afro-Cuban, romantic and traditional Latin music tunes.

8 pm, free NOISE SHOW! Ghost 2899 Trades West Road Noise rock from Kee Avil, White Boy Scream, William Hutson, Bigawatt and The Uninvited Guest.

8 pm, $5-$10 ORNETC. AND SHAKE ALERT Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 OrnEtc. brings the jazz, Shake Alert brings the Afrobeat and funk tunes.

8:30 pm, $5 PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Solo jazz guitar.

7 pm, free PERFECT STRANGR Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, Pojoaque, 984-8414 Country 'n' Western.

8:30 pm, free THE PIMENTO BROTHERS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock, classic rock, blues, funk and old-school country.

8 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free SAM PACE AND THE GILDED GRIT Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Powerful 'n' luscious rock 'n' roll on tour from Austin.

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COURTESY HUNTER KIRKLAND CONTEMPORARY

n the 1952 book The Story of Painting For Young People, budding art enthusiasts are urged to think of abstract art in terms of 10 apples. “Suppose,” the authors wrote, “we want to make a picture of our 10 apples: we shall find no two of them alike. If we leave out any of these small differences, we are already ‘abstracting’ a part of what we actually see. As a matter of fact, even the most realistic portrait of our 10 apples will turn out to be an abstraction of sorts, because we cannot do without leaving out something.”

This is a marvelously simple way to think of abstraction. Of course, we cannot convey exactly how a thing is; the question of reconciling abstract painting with a “real” object or person, etc., becomes moot, even silly, because, like the apple allegory, the subject or inspiration becomes removed during the relaying of it. But in some cases, the accepted fact that the features of an abstract painting need not be recognizable might lead to works whose components end up not looking—or feeling—like much of anything in particular.

Canyon Road’s Hunter Kirkland Contemporary hosts around a dozen artists, from sculptors in stone and wire to surrealist painters and more. It might be thought of as a mixed-bag approach designed to have a little something for everybody who passes through.

“Our goal is helping art lovers build a relationship with us and with the artists themselves, personalizing the experience of buying art so that it’s congenial and interactive, never intimidating,” says the gallery’s website. That last word, intimidating, is loaded, but not incorrect in this context. Seeing artwork in person can indeed be alienating, even a little stressful for those of us unfamiliar with art galleries, or painting in general.

Dancing in Paradox, the upcoming show of abstract and representational work by local painter Rick Stevens at Hunter Kirkland, features works that are careful—think trim tree trunks in the

Can’t see the forest for the blobs in “Psithurism.”

golden hour—and not problematic; his abstractions, though, can be confusingly arranged and executed, and sometimes nauseatingly colorful.

Stevens is most successful when he practices restraint, letting scenes of nature shine with color, which he so clearly adores. “Wandering Into The Glade,” at over 8 feet across, is automatically immersive based on scale alone. The viewer is further injected into the scene thanks to Stevens’ manipulation of light. It’s a shimmery, pale gold glow that originates from

the top center of the canvas and radiates into the surrounding glen. Tree trunks are dark cobalt, tinged with red, in an ode to the beauty and mystery of the deep forest.

In another work, “Last Night in the Hardwoods,” the viewer is deposited into a field of multi-hued tree trunks, some orange, red or chalky pale blue. Again, light is the star of the show, with a soft shaft spotlighting a just-left-of-center aspen tree so that it practically glows. “I think of nature as a continuous flow of shapes and patterns of energy that has, or more precisely

is, an intelligent force,” the artist explains in a recent artist statement.

“No Reference Point” is a poignant title for a painting that seems anchor-less, with smudgy, pollen-dust yellow orbs distractedly hovering around a central mass of pea-green. The spongecake-colored background is not pretty grounding; at the painting’s borders, bits of encroaching, soft-edged blue clusters look far too much like mold. Stevens is thankfully more reined-in with “Just Being There,” the watery blue background of which, overlaid with wavy black lines, acts as a gentle host to a central rectangle of scumbled gold.

The underwater vibes of the painting’s components, together with a yellow-ish rectangle, reminded me of Spongebob Squarepants; the shape’s relatively well-defined corners are oddly pleasing alongside the disconcerting borderlessness of less restrained abstractions.

In “Psithurism,” a title whose definition I had to Google (it means “the sound of wind in the trees and rustling of leaves”), splotchy, frenzied color obscures unfinished-looking trees and shrubbery beyond. Perhaps, I found myself thinking while studying this painting, Stevens’ well-executed manipulation of light is crucially important to the success of his compositions; the more abstracted works seem to lose that light, which is a key, somehow, to cohesiveness—and, frankly, to beauty.

Artists like Rick Stevens are perfectly capable, probably nice, and very, very safe—which might be why his work seems designed to pacify before it’s designed to stimulate. As viewers, we are left with bushels full of apples, but we don’t particularly know—or care—how many or what kind there are.

RICK STEVENS: DANCING IN PARADOX 5 pm Friday June 22. Free.

Hunter Kirkland Contemporary, 200-B Canyon Road, Santa Fe, 984-2111

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SANTA FE BANDSTAND: JAY BOY ADAMS AND ZENOBIA Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Blues, soul and Americana fusion with roots rhythms.

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6 pm, free THE STRINGMASTERS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Western swing and jazz.

6 pm, free THE ZIG ZAGS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock 'n' roll.

8 pm, free

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 If you don't know about this cult musical by now, what the hell?! (But virgins are, as ever, welcome.) It gets racy, so it’s for 18+ audiences. This performance's guest narrator is yours truly, SFR theater columnist Charlotte Jusinski.

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7:30 pm, $15-$25

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FOREST FOR THE TREES: CLOSING RECEPTION Freeform Artspace: C de Baca Location 1619 C de Baca Lane, 692-9249 Artists Wendy Copp and Jessica Mongeon explore the natural world, humanity’s place within it and role as steward in a visual conversation about understanding the macro and the micro. Through June 24.

4 pm, free

RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Two best friends—one a housewife, one a career-driven bachelorette—both unfulfilled and both coveting the other's life, get together. It amounts to an unflinching look at gender politics and feminist ideals.

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BOOKS/LECTURES ARTHUR LOPEZ: TRANSCENDING TRADITION Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo Museum Hill, 982-2226 Artist and santero Lopez discusses the process and inspiration behind his work.

2 pm, $5-$10 ENLIGHTENED COURAGE Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center 1807 Second St., Ste. 35, 660-7056 With Geshe Thubten Sherab’s wisdom on how to be committed to the peaceful and courageous path of full awakening, explore the ideas in The Way of the Bodhisattva.

10 am-noon, free JOURNEYSANTAFE: PAMELA PEREA AND ZOE COLFAX Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Hear from representatives from the New Mexico School for the Arts as they discuss the state of media literacy in New Mexico.

11 am, free

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PATRICIA CONOWAY: LISTENING WITH MY EYES Garcia Street Books 376 Garcia St., 986-0151 Author Conoway shares her touching memoir about working with an abused horse while also placing her parents into assisted living.

4 pm, free RICHARD BALTHAZAR: CODEX FEJERVARY-MAYER AND CODEX LAUD El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Balthazar speaks on the historical context of these and other codices.

2 pm, free YOUNG ADULT BOOK CLUB: THE CHAOS OF STANDING STILL Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Attention bookworms of Santa Fe ages 14-18: The group decided to take another month to discuss Jessica Brody's novel that tells the story of a chaotic night stranded at the Denver airport.

4 pm, free

DANCE PERPETUAL MOTION Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 The Oklahoma-based modern and aerial dance company performs in short bursts throughout the day.

10 am-6 pm, $17-$25

EVENTS CURRENTS NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL Various locations Santa Fe's premier interactive media festival. For all the info, check currentsnewmedia.org.

Various times, free DHARMA DISCUSSION GROUP Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A chance to meet and become better acquainted with fellow practitioners and share thoughts, feelings and experiences related to Buddhist practice.

7 pm, free MEDITATION & MODERN BUDDHISM: AWAKENING THE HEART Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Transform your relationships through meditations that awaken and grow the love in your heart.

10 am-noon, $10 RODEO DE SANTA FE Rodeo de Santa Fe 3237 Rodeo Road, 471-4300 It starts really early in the morning with all the stuff that didn't fit in last night, takes a break during the hottest part of the day, then kicks up again with the carnival at 3 pm.

Rodeo competition is done, but ride that ferris wheel, would ya?

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STEAM SUNDAYS New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Find out how gallery artists use STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) to create their work through a scavenger hunt.

Free with museum admission.

10 am-5 pm, $6-$12 SANTA FE STUDIO TOUR Various locations Go to santafestudiotour.com for a map of the 59 open studios all over town.

10 am-5 pm, free SOUTHSIDE SUMMER WHEELS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Head to the MW parking lot for a lowrider and custom car show and neighborhood cruise with kids' activities, performers, music and food trucks. meowwolf.com/cars lists all the related events.

10 am-5 pm, free STEPHEN AUGER: IRIS Axle Contemporary 670-5854 Climb inside a small space and experience sound and light frequencies. Today it's in the Farmers Market shade structure (Market and Alcaldesa Streets). Book your time: axleart.com/iris.

Noon-5 pm, free SUMMER SOLSTICE LABYRINTH WALK Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Join the Labyrinth Resource Group on the longest day of the year for a special labyrinth walk.

1 pm, free

FILM LIVING IN THE STORY New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Gallery owner Andrew Smith, photographer and filmmaker Miguel Gandert, and curators Andrew Connors and Michele Penhall collaborated with documentary filmmaker Lynn Estomin to create this film about artist Patrick Nagatani.

1 pm, free

MUSIC ACES HIGH Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Americana and folk.

10 am-3 pm, free BILL HEARNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country and honky-tonk.

8 pm, free BILLFEST Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 A regular who's-who of local musicians take charge of two stages for a full day and night of rock 'n' roll, Americana, Western tunes and friendship. Led by and named after musician Bill Palmer (see SFR Picks, page 21).

2-10 pm, free

DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free JERRY BORSHARD: HUES OF LOVE Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 Pianist Borshard presents commentary and performance of romantic music by Debussy, Brahms, Sibelius, Wagner and Liszt.

2 pm, $10 JOE WEST AND FRIENDS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Get to the patio for an alt. country brunch.

Noon, free KITTY JO CREEK Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Bluegrass.

1 pm, free MATTHEW ANDRAE La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Folky tunes on guitalele.

6 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free MYSTIC LIZARD Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Bluegrass.

11 am-1 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Creative but rooted takes on Latin music.

7 pm, free OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Bring your listenin' ears and your playin' fingers.

3-7 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Jazzy jazz on Civilized Sunday.

7 pm, free SANTA FE REVUE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Get up to the sunny deck for Americana, country and folk.

4 pm, free ZERO HOUR TANGO TRIO Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Improvisational jazz and modern classical sensibilities in Argentine tango music.

6:30 pm, $5-$10

THEATER RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 An unflinching look at gender politics and feminist ideals in this wickedly funny 2013 play

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THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 When sweethearts Brad and Janet's car breaks down, they end up at a mysterious castle with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and his team of eccentric companions.

2 pm, $15-$25 TRES CUENTOS: BILINGUAL FOLKTALES Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Teatro Paraguas presents three short bilingual folktales with a cast ranging in age from 3 to 66.

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JUMPSTART YOUR MEMOIR Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve 27283 I-25 West Frontage Road, La Cienega, 471-9103 Those seeking inspiration can engage in writing sessions; at the end of class, all are welcome to share. Bring your preferred writing medium (paper, computer, or stone tablet and chisel). Taught

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GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets.

7 pm, free SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE: MARK L ASQUINO Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Former Ambassador Mark L Asquino shares his perspectives as a foreign service officer stationed in the Middle East.

7 pm, free THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 699-6922 Have you been itching to start singing again? The local choral group invites anyone who can carry a tune to its weekly rehearsals.

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BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana.

7:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 This week’s suggestion: Something by Bree Sharp. Is she even on the machine? She should be. She’s great.

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DAGMAR AND RUMELIA COLLECTIVE Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Dagmar is an indie-classical, harmony-driven female duo; they're joined by the intricate Mediterranean stylings of Rumelia Collective.

8 pm, $5-$10 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ELIZABETH YOUNG Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards on piano and violin.

6:30 pm, free FANTUZZI & THE FLEXIBLE BAND Casa Poim Poim 2323 Calle Pava, 982-9950 A high-energy meditational celebration for the healing of body, mind and soul with reggae, Latin rock, East Indian kirtans, niabinge, salsa and Afro-Caribbean stylings.

7 pm, $20 MELLOW MONDAYS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 DJ Sato spins some jams to calm you down.

10 pm, free MONDAY NIGHT SWING: HOT TEXAS SWING BAND Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Dance to country and traditional swing. That cover charge includes a 7 pm class, and dancing that starts at 8 pm.

7 pm, $10

TUE/26 BOOKS/LECTURES BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Join a play and language group to enjoy books, songs and finger games.

1 pm, free PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Books make your kids smart.

10:30 am, free REBECCA ROANHORSE: TRAIL OF LIGHTNING Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Climate change causes a cascading set of environmental collapses. Dinétah is all that is known to remain in the world, and Indigenous badass Maggie Hoskie is our heroine.

Join Roanhorse for a book launch, reading, discussion and Q&A. 6 pm, $10-$28 THE GRANDCHILDREN'S FUND FOR A FOSSIL FUEL FREE FUTURE Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado, 466-7323 Eldorado resident Nelson Bonner is working to establish the fund; hear more about his plans at this lecture.

7 pm, free

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Put on your best tango shoes.

7:30 pm, $5

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This quiz can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group to put into action the planning you did last night.

8:30 am, free ¡VÁMONOS! SANTA FE: WALK WITH A NOTABLE LOCAL Plaza Contenta 6009 Jaguar Drive, 550-3728 Go for a stroll with City Councilor Roman Abeyta. For more info, check out sfct.org/ vamonos.

5:30-6:30 pm, free

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana.

7:30 pm, free BILL PALMER Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Rock 'n' roll, dirty country and beautiful acoustic ballads.

5-7 pm, free BLUEGRASS JAM Derailed at the Sage Inn 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Yup, it's a bluegrass jam.

6 pm, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Music and camaraderie.

8 pm, $5 CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND MIKE NICHOLSON Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards: Doug starts, Mike takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free ROLLER'OKE Rockin' Rollers 2915 Agua Fría St., 473-7755 Roller skating, aliens, karaoke (see SFR Picks, page 21).

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Santa Famous Street Eats

Trinity Kitchen When a biz like Meow Wolf puts its considerable weight and influence behind a food truck, you can bet on it being a high-quality operation with uncommon options. Trinity Kitchen is just that operation. Serving up cajun food (no, seriously), Trinity owners Connor Black and Eliot Chevanne have crafted something special, from the cripsy crawfish beignets ($8) and jackfruit po’boy ($10, and an excellent substitution for pulled pork or similar meat) to delicious gumbo ($10) and sinful pulled pork fries ($8). This is the truck we didn’t realize we were missing until it came barreling into our lives.

1352 Rufina Circle, 216-6561

Bang Bite Filling Station There are certain food trucks that are magic; the ones that transcend the format and become something truly special.

Bang Bite is one of them thanks to their informal yet deceptively simple menu. In other words, them burgers and sammies is GOOD! Our personal favorite might just be the You Are My Boy Blue ($11), a massive coming-together of beef, bacon, bleu cheese and maple-bacon jam so delicious we’d probably kill for it. Grilled cheese sandwiches ($8.25-$11) shine as well, and with nearly 10 other sandwich choices, plenty of vegetrain options, local specialties like calabacitas ($9.75) and more, it’s hard to believe our luck.

Santa Famous Street Eats is like some glorious amalgam of all things Santa Feans love: Frito pies ($5), tacos ($6 for two), taquitos ($5 for three) and breakfsat burritos ($5) are just a smattering.

With rotating specials, chile-laden burgers and—are you sitting down?— the waffle cristo (a monte cristo made with waffles instead of bread, and crammed with honey jam, Swiss cheese and a housemade jalapeño-berry dipping sauce for $6), it needs to be on the top of your list.

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eal delivery services are having a moment. Outsourcing grocery shopping and meal planning frees up time and energy while helping to ensure a balanced diet all week long. And it seems like these days there’s a service for every appetite, from Green Chef, which prioritizes organics, to the eminently customizable Hello Fresh and, of course, the grandfather of them all—Blue Apron, which practically spawned the meal delivery movement when it was founded in 2012.

Now Santa Fe has access to a more homegrown option: the Los Alamos-based Macros Made Easy, a service that began in November of last year. Available in both Santa Fe and Los Alamos, its founders plan to expand to Albuquerque in January of next year. But for now, they are satisfying a desperate niche, since few meal prep services extend to Santa Fe. Chef Samantha Orner and her fian-cé Matthew Scarborough joined forces to create a rotating menu geared toward healthy macronutrient balance for busy people with hectic lifestyles. Macronutrients are types of calories sub-categorized by the kind of energy source they provide.

More simply, they are proteins, fats and carbohydrates, and counting these can be more effective than counting calories; some people are more sensitive to metabolizing carbohydrates than proteins, and thus have different macronutrient needs.

Athletes, diabetics or even people trying to lose weight mindfully frequently track the numbers of “macros” they need to hit every day.

Orner and Scarborough’s menus provide fresh, seasonal options every week that aim for the standard macronutrient balance of 40 percent carbohydrates, 30 percent fat and 30 percent protein, but with a personal touch. “I feel it’s important to show that healthy food doesn’t have to be boring,” Orner tells SFR. “We experiment with different flavors and food combinations to really show every side to a well-rounded meal.” Orner herself is the daughter of private chef Harold Orner, founder of the local catering company Executive Chef Incorporated, and everything made for Macros is cooked and prepped in his kitchen in Santa Fe. While most meal delivery services ship pre-measured ingredients to be cooked at home, Macros Made Easy goes further, cooking everything before delivery. Meals are dropped off twice a week to ensure freshness. “Some compa-

Win-win: being able to count your macros and get your food delivered.

nies just sell you groceries and recipes, and we thought that was kind of silly,” Scarborough says. “If you’re going to cook your own food, why spend $90 on three meals a week?”

There are two plans available—one standard and one custom, for people with special macronutrient needs. The standard plan offers weekly pricing of five meals for $70 or 10 meals for $140 per week. Additional meals cost around $10 each. Custom pricing runs $80 per week for five meals, and $160 per week for 10, with additional options ranging from $10 to $13 and a low-carb option that swaps out the high-carb part of the meal for extra vegetables or increased fats and proteins.

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The food itself constantly changes to avoid the malaise that can set in with nutritionally minded meal prep. Past menus have included options like beef chorizo stuffed squash with cilantro cauliflower rice, or sweet and sour chicken with mashed ginger carrots and a bok choy and cabbage slaw. The level of customization is limited by the size of the company, a team of just two people, but the food is delicious and satisfying since production is small and the options are so fresh.

I sampled coconut-crusted chicken strips accompanied by a side of chile-dusted sweet potato fries and roasted asparagus. The chicken strips had a subtle sweetness from the coconut offset by the tang of an accompanying honey mustard sauce, and the sides left me feeling full but not bloated. The fries and chicken tenders were comfortingly similar to junk food, a nice characteristic for people trying to lose weight without adhering to a life of salads. I appreciated the menu’s overarching emphasis on whole foods, and while Macros Made Easy doesn’t guarantee its foods are free of flour and/or simple car carbohydrates, they take pains to use ingre ingredients like coconut flour, cauliflower rice and sweet potatoes for high-carb menu additions.

Orner says she plans to add a treats menu by mid-July with breakfast options like mini quiches, nut breads and Paleo Diet-inspired baked goods that eschew white flour and sugar for almond or coco coconut flour, arrowroot and flax. In general, add the food is knockout-good with the added bonus of not having to be prepped or cooked. If I ever feel the urge to train for a marathon, lose 10 pounds or have too much going on to fire up the oven, I will definitely give Macros Made Easy a call.

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Claire Danes and Jim Parsons star in director Silas Howard’s A Kid Like Jake, a play-turnedfilm that’s a bit of a nouveau New York City parable about gender norms and the burgeoning middle-ish class of late millennial professionals/ parents who affect their kids’ evolution through absurd levels of attention and involvement.

From their impossibly nice apartment, Alex (Danes) and Greg (Parsons) Wheeler raise their son Jake, a boy more interested in eschewing his societally dictated boy-ness and dressing as Rapunzel for Halloween than he is in wearing pants or playing ball. He’s only 4, Greg and Alex hypothesize, so he’s bound to grow out of it. But when a caring preschool teacher (Octavia Spencer) points out that Jake’s nonconformity may be more than a simple phase, his parents must address their plans and goals while grappling with their own traumas and relationship issues.

Danes is sometimes stirring as an ex-lawyer who may not have wanted children and who waffles between defending her son’s self-expression while worrying for his future in the cruel, real world. Parsons, here a psychologist of some

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kind, mostly keeps sheepishly quiet—for fear of his former shark of a wife or because he’s just a thoughtful fellow we never really learn about, save for one explosive and fantastic scene between them in the wake of a shared tragedy.

Jake (Leo James Davis), meanwhile, is rarely seen and relegated to a few “ain’t he cute?” scenes peppered throughout the film. We get it—the story is really about the parents and, by extension, the world at large, but his lack of screen time mostly causes a feeling of disconnect; neither Alex nor Greg are strong enough characters to make us care for them, and Jake, being the centerpiece of the drama, is a kid we really don’t know no matter how many times we’re reminded he’s supposed to be special.

Elsewhere, we get snippet-length views of the Wheelers’ trying family and friends and a rather funny lambasting of big-city private school elitism, but we never get a sense of what anyone actually wants. It’s promising that we consistently feel disappointment toward those who would make Jake feel as if his self-expression and non-conformity are somehow wrong, but we still don’t believe that anyone learned anything, even if we do find the kid wearing a dress or skirt a couple times throughout.

A KID LIKE JAKE Directed by Howard With Danes, Parsons, Spencer and Davis Jean Cocteau Cinema, NR, 92 min.

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A telling moment of Bruce LaBruce’s 2017 film The Misandrists comes 10 minutes in when a young woman, Ute (Victoire Laly), sits tersely on a bed, lamenting that men are the pigs of the world. Not the animal—God no, we like animals; men are the cops of the world. Ute is one of 13 members of the all-woman Female Liberation Army (FLA), a so-called army of lovers and the brainchild of the glamorous ideologue Big Mother (Susanne Sachße). They all live in a chic villa in the isolated German countryside.

But their lesbian separatist idyll is threatened when a male political fugitive stumbles into their territory and one girl takes pity, secretly harboring him in the basement of their strictly no-boys-allowed homestead.

“When are we going to posit ourselves authentically as subjects?” Ute huffs, pacing beside the bed. Her companion smiles coyly. “I know how we can posit ourselves, authentically, as subjects,” she replies, and they descend into girlish erotics. They must, because the sisters of the FLA are LaBruce’s kitschy concoction; but instead of sugar and spice and everything nice,

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White underwear flutters on the clothesline.

Despite B-movie acting and a low-grade cultish charm, The Misandrists troubled me enough to keep my mind grappling with its politics long after the credits—in large part because it’s hard

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to know just what its politics are. The creators don’t show their hands, at one moment giving the FLA a satirical treatment (their rhetoric is full of cringey jargon like “Ger-woman-y” and “womanual”), and the next elevating their ideals as real tools of justice. Gender essentialism is the group’s credo, and violently anti-trans sentiment is sometimes condemned, sometimes rewarded in the movie’s world. Perhaps in line with a feminist critique of authoritarian leadership, the “womanager” Big Mother is the story’s most flawed and ultimately violent character (as to the violence, I seriously caution the squeamish).

The bad acting quickly becomes forgivable, and after that, endearing. The film is good fun for the viewer with a radical streak in her heart, since it’s filled with bits of revolutionary dialogue and visual Easter eggs, like a mural of anarchist Emma Goldman in the background of one bedroom scene. Probably best to know: It’s porn-heavy, and how much “good fun” that is will hinge on your tastes. Politically, it can be hard to resolve when to cheer and when to balk. Except for conservatives. Conservatives will definitely balk the whole time. True to title, if you can’t stomach a little misandry, stay away! (Eva Rosenfeld) Jean Cocteau Cinema, NR, 91 min.

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Director Ari Aster firmly asserts his place within the pantheon of new wave horror cinema auteurs with Hereditary, his first full-length film and a decidedly terrifying yet subtle experience that keeps up with—or even surpasses—other 21st-century highlights such as 2014’s It Follows.

Aster’s world is one that feels all at once dreamlike and haunting, yet all too real, like a nightmare one can’t shake or a long-residing and throbbing pain from outside the physical realm.

Here we meet Annie (Toni Collette), an artist and mother grappling with the recent death of her estranged mother. Annie has seemingly cobbled together quite the life, from her husband (Gabriel Byrne) and children to her thriving arts practice and gallery representation. But when an unspeakable accident occurs, the dynamic between the family is inextricably changed, and her entire existence begins to unravel while those closest to her begin to suspect she’s struggling with mental illness and misplaced grief.

At her best, Collette achieves a measured balance between protective mother, loving wife and grieving woman; at her worst, she errs to far toward hammy. Still, her character is believably flawed and human even as we question whether her new circumstances are real or imagined (think Essie Davis’ wonderful sleep-deprived flirtation with insanity in the brilliant Australian horror film The Babadook). Elsewhere, Byrne is underused and middle sections drag under the weight of early shocking scenes. Alex Wolff (from that new Jumanji) stands out, however, as a son dealing with his own guilt and confusion, while newcomer Milly Shapiro helps supplies spooky-little-kid vibes in a quiet, capable way.

It is delightfully surprising, then, that the true revelations behind the family’s troubles are nothing like what early looks and trailers led us to believe. Instead, Hereditary becomes a twisted vision of sheer evil and artistry that takes its time and builds slowly, sometimes excruciatingly, right up to its bizarre, horrifying conclusion. (Alex De Vore) Regal, Violet Crown, R, 127 min.

Willem Dafoe, the film opts not to focus in on any particular locale or storyline, but instead attempts to answer the sweeping questions, “What are mountains?” and “Why have humans chosen to enter them?”

This is an ambitious goal, surely, but the lack of specificity makes for not only narrative fatigue but ethical pitfalls. Mountain kicks off with a brief history of the human ethos towards mountains, beginning with an era when the mountains contained only the “holy or hostile” and people dared not enter. The script favors the collective “we” voice: “We insulated ourselves away from nature—the mountains called us back.” Now, it says, we are drawn to the wild; or at least, a special class of adventurers among us is. No matter that many people live and work in the outdoors, and have done so for a long time—not just as an oasis from cushy modernity.

When the film refers to “humans,” it refers to a wealthy, predominantly white leisure class, and the history it deems universal is more accurately the arc of Western Romantic thought. Random shots of Buddhist monks don’t do much to change that. The film does briefly make reference to the “imperial aim” of mountaineers: to “grid, girdle, and name the upper world; to bring it and its peoples into the realm of the known and the owned.”

Yet the writers encounter no cognitive dissonance between referencing these “peoples,” and the

repeated thesis that humans exclusively avoided the mountains up until this point.

Mountain is at its most compelling during its athletic sequences, when mountaineers perform dazzling calisthenics against colossal landscapes.

These scenes take on a humor and geometric artistry beyond the majestic National Geographic-esque landscape shots one comes to expect.

The shrewd decision to feature the music of the Australian Chamber Orchestra makes these moments even more lovely. In one particularly clever sequence, climbers repeatedly plummet off of walls to the end of their ropes to the sound of a rapid string section. The symphony concludes, and two mountaineers smoke together as if sitting on a stoop, except their legs dangle thousands of feet in the air.

The film takes on land degradation as its central moral stand against the mountaineering industry, but this message is never reconciled with either the valorization of the explorers themselves or the film’s final declaration: that in the end, the mountains will always outlast us, as narrated over shots of the land’s natural processes. The viewer is primed by the sight of so many human bodies to fully grasp the mountain’s vitality, how they breathe. Here, what could instill awe is undercut by trite generalizing, and if not for the orchestra might be more effective on mute. (ER) Violet Crown, PG, 74 min.

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There’s no more accurate synopsis of Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom’s film Mountain than its title; it’s about mountains, broadly. Between aerial alpine shots and the droning narration of

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Every time it seems young Han Solo is about to face some overwhelming and perilous situation in the newest Star Wars offshoot film, a little voice in the back of our head says, “Yeah, but we know it’s gonna be OK.” We know he’ll live, we know he’ll fight another day, we know that no matter what else happens, he’ll one day rescue a princess, fall in love, have a smarmy goth kid who goes full Sith and on and on.

And there’s the rub, even if it’s from a film that famously lost its original directors and brought on Ron “Willow” Howard to reshoot a hefty number of scenes.

In Solo: A Star Wars Story, we get the lowdown on what made Han Solo Han Solo, from his early adventures and his surname to his lost love and iconic friendships with that Kashyyykian champion himself Chewbacca and the super-sexy Lando Calrissian. But a significant chunk of the story falls flat under our preconceived notions about the character, leaving audiences to force-chuckle at that irritating movie trope wherein someone says something like, “You should fight for something more than yourself!” We know, of course, that he will one day.

Hail Caesar’s Alden Ehrenreich is more than capable as young Han, a rogue-ish type with a killer smile enamored by the idea of an outlaw lifestyle, but ultimately a survivor with a heart of gold. After a difficult upbringing in the slums of some planet, Han winds up fighting for the Empire in hopes of becoming a pilot, but Q’ira, the woman he left behind (Emilia Clarke of Game of Thrones), preys on him always. Han is thus wrapped up in the intergalactic game of smuggling and thievery to try and make a buck and get back to her. Under the wing of the criminal Beckett (Woody Harrelson, Cheers), Han learns and grows and evolves and blah blah blah.

Donald Glover’s turn as Lando becomes the most exciting part of the film as Glover nails that Billy Dee Williams vocal affect and plants the seeds of self-preservation we know from The Empire Strikes Back. Harrelson shines as well as the unscrupulous space burglar with shifting allegiances and priorities. Clarke, meanwhile, feels a tad goofy and underused, a romantic interest whose backstory becomes “Don’t worry about it.” But Han’s doing-it-for-the-girl thing seems a fine enough motivation as any, even if a more complete idea of his guilt over not saving Q’ira is poorly explored; Chewie remains his most important relationship.

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feelings about a million years ago—the Star Wars world has felt much more fresh and intriguing. Everything here is tempered by what we already know and lacks a certain drama because of that. Oh, and enough with the sassy robots, Star Wars. It’s starting to feel stale. (Alex De Vore) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 135 min.

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No one is going to accuse Ryan Reynolds and crew of trying to make a “good” movie with Deadpool 2, but it’s definitely one of those fun summertime romps you always hear about.

Reynolds is, of course, Deadpool, the merc with a mouth who regenerates like Wolverine, fights with the power of a million ninjas and kills … well, he kills pretty much anyone he can.

When last we left him, Deadpool’s affairs seemed in order and he’d found his own place within the Fox-owned Marvel universe (we see you, Venom, we’re just not sure what the deal with you is yet), but his affinity for doing what he considers right at all costs has put him in a bit of a bind. No spoilers, but he’s trying to die. Throw in a handful of lesser-known (or cared-about) X-Men and X-Force characters (like Domino, Shatterstar, Colossus and Zeitgeist), a number of in-jokes for comics fans, a barely-there story about helping people (maybe) and Josh “Also Thanos” Brolin as the time-traveling supersoldier Cable, and you’ve got a recipe for madness—and sequels, even if it’s beyond irreverent and over-packed with one-line groaners and over-the-top violence.

Reynolds does his Reynolds thing, breaking the fourth wall, using that voice of his and becoming the victim and perpetrator of some seriously gruesome carnage. Brolin, meanwhile, finds that happy middle ground between emotionless straight man and foil as his character travels back in time to prevent a horrible future tragedy. Regardless—and say what you will—the action in Deadpool 2 is bonkers-fun.

The award for best new character goes to Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz as Domino, a mutant whose power is just that she’s pretty lucky. It sounds dumb, and Deadpool himself mocks her for it, but between her kickass fight scenes and Beetz’ laid-back, funny delivery, we’re definitely into it.

Round out the rest with some ridiculous and only-sometimes-funny jokes from side characters—including TJ “I Make Bomb Threats” Miller—and you get a perfectly fine movie that certainly won’t give the Marvel Studios juggernaut a run for its money, but still delights in poking fun at it nonetheless. Director David Leitch (Atomic Blonde) deserves recognition for allowing the silliness to always throttle the story forward, just don’t take your kids—and make sure to hang around for the self-referential mid-credit scenes. Shit’s rich. (ADV) Jean Cocteau Cinema, Regal, R, 119 min.

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Now in her mid-80s, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is enjoying a bit of late-in-life rockstar status. Much of this has to do with her shuffling more toward liberalism after George W Bush appointed two conservative justices during his presidential tenure (Ginsburg was decidedly more moderate in her rulings beforehand) and the subsequent numerous dissenting opinions she’s filed, such as against a 2014 ruling that found crafts mega-corp Hobby Lobby wouldn’t need to take women’s reproductive health into

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Regardless, she’s come to be known as a bit of a badass and an icon not just for feminism, but fighting for what’s morally right. American history fans are no doubt aware of Ginsburg’s track record dating back to the 1970s when, as a lawyer, she first argued before the Supreme Court and worked to turn the tide for women in this country.

About time, then, that she’d become the focus of a documentary—and a damn fine one at that. In RBG, from documentarians Julie Cohen and Betsy West, we finally get the full picture. It’s a tale of breaking boundaries and emotional resonance wherein Ginsburg is proven to be not only a staunch ally to women, but to men, people of color and indeed the American underdog. Through interviews with friends, family, former clients and current colleagues, a sense of deep admiration from all sides of the aisle emerges proving that even those who might disagree with Ginsburg can’t help but be drawn to her grace and enamored with her style and accomplishments. We also see a broad overview of a number of cases she presided over and how she handled them.

She is funny and composed, an avid arts and opera fan who seemingly never tires and takes seriously her charge to work for the American people. For Ginsburg, we learn (or re-learn) that the job is never about partisanship or special interests; it’s about helping to shape the country in a way that is mutually beneficial for all.

She’s not naive, however, and plans to continue the fight, she says, “so long as she can go at it full-steam.” There are no signs of stopping, and it’s endlessly inspiring and amusing to observe her boom within pop culture.

Be warned, however, that some of the content may drive one mad—from the shamelessly one-sided ideology of old white men and pervasive lack of equality in America, to the level to which Ginsburg has constantly had to rise in order to prove herself. Tirelessly. Again and again.

Still, we’re glad to know she’s still out there crusading, and we can only hope RBG is shown to everyone—particularly young people—for a long time to come. (ADV) Violet Crown, PG, 98 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you have cosmic permission to enjoy extra helpings of waffles, crepes, pancakes, and blintzes. Eating additional pastries and doughnuts is also encouraged. Why? Because it’s high time for you to acquire more ballast. You need more gravitas and greater stability. You can’t afford to be top-heavy; you must be hard to knock over. If you would prefer not to accomplish this noble goal by adding girth to your butt and gut, find an alternate way. Maybe you could put weights on your shoes and think very deep thoughts.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The coming weeks will be a favorable time to accentuate and brandish the qualities that best exemplify your Libran nature. In other words, be extreme in your moderation. Be pushy in your attempts to harmonize. Be bold and brazen as you make supple use of your famous balancing act. I’ll offer you a further piece of advice, as well. My first astrology teacher believed that when Librans operate at peak strength, their symbol of power is the iron fist in the velvet glove: power expressed gracefully, firmness rendered gently. I urge you to explore the nuances of that metaphor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re slipping into the wild heart of the season of discovery. Your curiosity is mounting. Your listening skills are growing more robust. Your willingness to be taught and influenced and transformed is at a peak. And what smarter way to take advantage of this fertile moment than to decide what you most want to learn about during the next three years? For inspiration, identify a subject you’d love to study, a skill you’d eagerly stretch yourself to master, and an invigorating truth that would boost your brilliance if you thoroughly embodied it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If I were your mom, I’d nudge you out the door and say, “Go play outside for a while!” If I were your commanding officer, I’d award you a shiny medal for your valorous undercover work and then order you to take a frisky sabbatical. If I were your psychotherapist, I would urge you to act as if your past has no further power to weigh you down or hold you back, and then I would send you out on a vision quest to discover your best possible future. In other words, my dear Scorpio, I hope you will flee your usual haunts. Get out of the loop and into the open spaces that will refresh your eyes and heart.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Four of his works were essential in earning that award: the play Waiting for Godot, and the novels Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. Beckett wrote all of them in a two-year span during the late 1940s.

During that time, he was virtually indigent. He and his companion Suzanne survived on the paltry wage she made as a dressmaker. We might draw the conclusion from his life story that it is at least possible for a person to accomplish great things despite having little money. I propose that we make Beckett your role model for the coming weeks, Gemini. May he inspire you to believe in your power to become the person you want to be no matter what your financial situation may be.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sex education classes at some high schools employ a dramatic exercise to illustrate the possible consequences of engaging in heterosexual lovemaking without using birth control.

Everywhere they go for two weeks, students must carry around a 10-pound bag of flour. It’s a way for them to get a visceral approximation of caring for an infant. I recommend that you find or create an equivalent test or trial for yourself in the coming days. As you consider entering into a deeper collaboration or making a stronger commitment, you’ll be wise to undertake a dress rehearsal.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Members of the Dull Men’s Club celebrate the ordinary. “Glitz and glam aren’t worth the bother,” they declare. “Slow motion gets you there faster,” they pontificate. Showing no irony, they brag that they CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suggest you ignore the temptation to shop around for new heroes and champi- are “born to be mild.” I wouldn’t normally recommend ons. It would only distract you from your main assign- becoming part of a movement like theirs, but the next two weeks will be one of those rare times when aligning yourment in the coming weeks, which is to be more of a self with their principles might be healthy and smart. If hero and champion yourself. Here are some tips to you’re willing to explore the virtues of simple, plain living, guide you as you slip beyond your overly modest selfimage and explore the liberations that may be possible make the Swedish term lagom your word of power. when you give yourself more credit. Tip #1: Finish out- According to the Dull Men’s Club, it means “enough, sufficient, adequate, balanced, suitable, appropriate.” growing the old heroes and champions who’ve served you well. Tip #2: Forgive and forget the disappointing AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the Georgian language, heroes and hypocritical champions who betrayed their shemomechama is a word that literally means “I ate the own ideals. Tip #3: Exorcise your unwarranted admirawhole thing.” It refers to what happens when you’re tion for mere celebrities who might have snookered already full, but find the food in front of you so delicious you into thinking they’re heroes or champions. that you can’t stop eating. I’m concerned you might soon LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “A waterfall would be more be tempted to embark on metaphorical versions of shemimpressive if it flowed the other way,” said Irish writer omechama. That’s why I’m giving you a warning to moniOscar Wilde. Normally, I would dismiss an idea like this, tor any tendencies you might have to get too much of a even though it’s funny and I like funny ideas. Normally, I good thing. Pleasurable and productive activities will would regard such a negative assessment of the water- serve you better if you stop yourself before you go too far. fall’s true nature, even in jest, to be unproductive and PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Please do not send me a enfeebling. But none of my usual perspectives are in lock of your hair or a special piece of your jewelry or a effect as I evaluate the possibility that Wilde’s declaration might be a provocative metaphor for your use in the hundred dollar bill. I will gladly cast a love spell in your behalf without draining you of your hard-earned cash. coming weeks. For a limited time only, it might be wise The only condition I place on my free gift is that you agree to meditate on a waterfall that flows the other way. to have me cast the love spell on you and you alone. After VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Stage magicians may seem to all, your love for yourself is what needs most work. And make a wine glass hover in mid-air, or transform salt into your love for yourself is the primary magic that fuels your diamonds, or make doves materialize and fly out of their success in connecting with other people. (Besides, it’s hands. It’s all fake, of course—tricks performed by skilled bad karma to use a love spell to interfere with another illusionists. But here’s a twist on the old story: I suspect person’s will.) So if you accept my conditions, Pisces, that for a few weeks, you will have the power to generate demonstrate that you’re ready to receive my telepathic effects that may, to the uninitiated, have a resemblance to love spell by sending me your telepathic authorization. magic tricks—except that your magic will be real, not Homework: Make a guess about where you’ll be and fake. And you will have worked very hard to accomplish what looks easy and natural. And the marvels you gener- what you’ll be doing ten years from today. Testify at ate will, unlike the illusionists’, be authentic and useful.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION STATE OF NEW MEXICO FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF SUSAN ROCHELLE SHERMAN IN THE PROBATE COURT Case No.: D-101-CV-2018-01749 SANTA FE COUNTY NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME IN THE MATTER OF THE TAKE NOTICE that in accorESTATE OF WILLIAM PETER dance with the provisions GEORGENES, DECEASED. of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. Case No.: 2018-0072 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY the Petitioner Susan Rochelle PUBLICATION Sherman will apply to the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Honorable Raymond Z. Ortiz, that the undersigned has been District Judge of the First Judicial appointed personal representaDistrict at the Santa Fe Judicial tive of this estate. All persons Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., having claims agains this estate in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at are required to present their 10:00 a.m. on the 13th day of claims within four months after July, 2018 for an ORDER FOR the date of the first publication CHANGE OF NAME from Susan of this Notice or the claims will Rochelle Sherman to Susanna be forever barred. Claims must Rochelle Martinez. be presented to the undersigned STEPHEN T. PACHECO, care of Gini Nelson, Esq., Gini District Court Clerk Nelson Law Office, PMB 303, By: Bernadette Hernandez 1704 Llano St., Ste B, Santa Fe, Deputy Court Clerk NM 87505-5444, or filed with Submitted by: Susan Sherman Petitioner, Pro Se. the Probate Court of Santa Fe SFREPORTER.COM

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