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effrey Holland ate a late lunch Friday and went home with a minor headache.

Just as the Albuquerque native closed his eyes for a short respite amid the chaos of his day, the phone rang. He didn’t recognize the number, but answered— because the longtime substance abuse counselor and stubborn believer in overcoming is always on call.

“It was a young lady from the Governor’s Office,” says Holland, a close, personal friend of this reporter. “She said, ‘Hey, I’m calling to let you know that your clemency has been granted by the governor. She reviewed your packet and wanted to congratulate you on turning your life around, and to thank you for all the work you do for the community.’”

Holland was stunned. And Holland, staring down the barrel of his 51st birthday, is not easily stunned.

In the throes of what looked like end-stage addiction, which often ends in death, he was sentenced to three years in prison for a string of larceny and conspiracy charges in the late 1990s.

He did his time, got out and, since his release, hasn’t done much besides haul one human life after the next back from the cliff—mine included.

Minutes after he called to tell me about the pardon, a news release from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham hit my

inbox. The first-term, Democratic governor had granted 19 pardons, including folks who’d been convicted of drug offenses, burglaries, auto thefts and more. Many had applied for mercy under previous governors and been denied.

Such acts of executive mercy in New Mexico have been astoundingly rare in recent years, as the release pointed out.

Not one New Mexican has received a pardon since 2012, the release said and then linked to a story I’d written in January 2019 for SFR and New Mexico In Depth as documented proof of the statement.

The story under the clickable link in the news release reported that Lujan Grisham’s predecessor, Republican former prosecutor Susana Martinez, had granted just three pardons during her eight years in office. That’s likely the fewest in state history.

But the saga stretches back much further and tracks the work of two news organizations and a dedicated legal team.

In 2013, the state Parole Board released a limited set of records related to Martinez’s use of her pardon power—a gubernatorial blessing that can restore gun ownership, voting and jury service rights, not to mention wipe away a felony conviction and the stigma that can hinder someone getting a job or renting an apartment.

In Holland’s case, he wanted “vindication for my family name,” and the pardon stands as a “quiet, internal victory.”

SFR produced a cover story in 2013 based on the Parole Board documents under the byline of Justin Horwath, my erstwhile partner in investigative journalism. It was a groundbreaking piece, The pardons Jeffrey Holland and others received but Horwath wanted to know more restores their voting and jury service rights. about Martinez and pardons.

Fast forward to November, 2019. HolHer administration preferred that land says he “felt like it was time” and readers be left in the dark. So, SFR sued filed an application for pardon. her in state District Court and won the His life isn’t even a recognizable release of her pardon files. facsimile of the one that landed him in The victory allowed Horwath and me prison. He’s now the executive director to dig in and produce a May 2018 story of the Endorphin Power Company, a examining Martinez’s record. The upnonprofit, residential treatment center shot: Martinez granted just 1% of the parfor recovering drug addicts in Albuquerdon applications that crossed her desk. que. And for anyone who pays attention That compares unfavorably to the two to the push for better behavioral health men who preceded her in office; Repuboutcomes around the state, Holland’s lican-turned-Libertarian Gary Johnson name is a mainstay. granted 9%, and Democrat Bill RichardHe’s predictably humble as we chat son granted pardons in 7% of cases.

Another revelation: Applications took about the pardon and what it means to him. a nose-dive while Martinez was gover“It’s huge,” Holland says. “It’s kind of nor, as lawyers who help people with the removal of the scarlet letter, right? pardon applications, often pro bono, I know I’m not the most deserving began advising folks that it was a futile person of this. There are people of color pursuit.

Some of those pardoned last week had and wrongly incarcerated individuals both in and outside the system who are tried before, under previous governors. way more deserving, and I truly and Holland didn’t apply under Richardson, with all of my heart hope that all of those he says, “because it was too soon” after situations can be rectified. But for me his conviction. personally, I’m a native New Mexican, “And I was told don’t even bother born and raised here. I’m a graduate of under Martinez,” he says. “It was made Highland High School. And I want to be very clear that, unless you’re an ally of an upstanding member of my state on as hers or you’ve got some kind of in, you’re many levels as possible.” not getting pardoned by her.”

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Seedlings at the John T Harrington Forestry Research Center in Mora await replanting.

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he Las Conchas Fire burned 156,200 acres of forest in the Jemez Mountains in 2011. Just one year later, the Whitewater-Baldy Complex Fire surpassed it in size and intensity, burning 297,845 acres and usurping its title as the largest forest fire in state history. Since then, extreme wildfires have increased in frequency across the Southwest.

Scientists fear the forest may never recover in areas where the fire raged hottest, scorching the earth and incinerating everything in its path down to the microbes and seed stocks in the ground.

Across the West, high intensity mega-fires are leaving behind barren landscapes that could convert permanently to shrubby grasslands where forests are unable to naturally regenerate.

This is where human-led reforestation efforts are essential to save ecosystems, New Mexico State University Associate Professor Owen Burney explained during a June 24 online presentation called “After the Fire: Seeding New Mexico’s Future,” about an ambitious push in the Jemez. It’s a pilot program designed to envision what should come after high intensity wildfire and whose sponsors include the Nature Conservancy; Santa Clara Pueblo and Cochiti pueblos; the US Forest Service; universities and others.

Over the next two years, they aim to plant 100,000 seedlings across 4,000 acres in the Las Conchas burn scar.

Once the monsoon season starts this summer, members will plant the first round of 25,000 seedlings in Bandelier National Monument and Santa Clara Pueblo. They’ll go in the ground in clumps, or “tree islands,” in an attempt to mimic the natural patterns of regeneration after a healthy, low intensity wildfire that leaves some more densely forested areas interspersed by open space.

Nearly 150 people watched online as Burney walked through the process of reforestation: collecting native regional seed stock; cultivating seedlings; planting and caring for the trees.

be strategically cared for and protected for years.

The greatest challenge, though, lies in collecting seeds before areas burn and creating regional seed banks to store them, a tricky proposition because many species of conifers only produce seed cones once every three to eight years.

“We cannot go back to these burned landscapes and collect seed. We need to be collecting seed from those regions before a disturbance,” Burney said, calling regional seed banks an “insurance policy” for the future of forests.

But if the project works at the small scale, it offers hope for combating climate change at the larger scale as well.

Forestry scientists are experimenting with what Burney called “assisted migration”—planting trees from lower elevations at slightly higher elevations to prepare for a hotter future when tree species will be less likely to survive at the elevations where they now grow.

In total, he said, reforestation projects need a lot more funding, programming and trained workers to make a significant impact. But what gives Haffey the most hope is the widespread interest in the project from governmental, tribal and educational entities and the public.

The enthusiasm was clear during last week’s event, as viewers interested in helping in seed collection or tree planting poured on the comments.

Haffey says the Nature Conservancy doesn’t have any volunteer citizen science projects up and running but he hopes that by 2021, anyone with a passion for the forest will be able to join a team to collect seeds, or adopt a grouping of newly planted seedlings to watch over them as they grow into forests for the next generation.

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Tree planting project aims to regrow forests in barren burn scars

“It’s this hopeful thing that seems to be getting a lot of people excited because this is a problem that is collectively within our span of control,” Collin Haffey, conservation manager at the Nature Conservancy, tells SFR. “It feels good to bite into a problem that has a solution, even if it also has a lot of complicated challenges.”

Those hurdles exist all along the path, Burney noted. Most are issues of scale.

For example, the “fire footprint” in New Mexico from 2002 to 2019 is about 5.2 million acres, of which about 2.5 million acres have been so badly burned they would need a reforestation effort for the forests there to grow back, he said.

Moreover, experts anticipate devastating forest fires to increase in the coming decades, and forests provide between 58 and 77% of water used by municipalities and agriculture in New Mexico by retaining snow pack and groundwater.

Between 300 and 650 million seedlings would be needed to replant the burned areas in the state, with an additional 1.5 to 2.5 million seedlings required per year going forward to make up for future fires, Burney said.

Burney also directs the John T Harrington Forestry Research Center in Mora, where most of the seedlings for the project have been carefully cultivated. The center includes the largest nursery program in the Southwest.

Yet, even with a capacity of 300,000 trees, the nursery can only provide a fraction of the trees that would be needed for genuine reforestation efforts. There also aren’t enough people trained as a workforce to meet the seedling need. Dropping one into the ground and walking away isn’t enough. In order for young trees to have any chance at survival, they need to

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Scientists hope to reforest burned landscapes, such as Cochiti Canyon’s, shown here three years after the wildfire.

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Mariam Bartleson and her coworkers hand several bags of meals to a family waiting in a car at Chaparral Elementary School. Everyone waves and smiles, all wearing masks. They clearly know each other.

Since COVID-19 arrived and shut down the schools, Bartleson and her team have been working across the school district as part of the free meal program that has now carried over into the summer—and increased.

Starting mid-June, she and her coworkers began making 140 meals three days a week—up from 90 the previous weeks—in an attempt to plug the significant increase in food insecurity across Santa Fe and New Mexico.

Before the pandemic, hunger in the state was already a major issue: One of every six people and one of every four children deal with food insecurity. In 2014, Feeding America and the New Mexico Association of Food Banks found that of those seeking emergency food assistance, 30% are children, 21% are seniors and 16% are raising their grandchildren.

The changes in the economy and daily life devastated paychecks and closed businesses, with more than 170,000 New Mexicans applying for unemployment since the beginning of the pandemic, leaving many without a way to buy food. According to Feeding America, job loss, sickness and panicbuying of food and essentials further hurt already vulnerable populations.

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experience increases in food insecurity.

Jill Dixon, The Food Depot’s director of development, tells SFR while there is no official data on the increase in food insecurity in New Mexico yet, the organization will put together a quarterly report in early July that will reveal how dramatically the need has increased. Anecdotal reports suggest a 30% increase in demand for hunger relief services.

But the people and organizations of Northern New Mexico have stepped up to fill the food gaps in a region already grappling with food deserts and swamps amid large swaths of lowincome areas and Native American reservations.

When the stay-at-home orders hit, public schools, nonprofits and colleges increased their food distribution to previously unimagined levels to help stave off an even deeper hunger crisis.

Some of these essential food employees and volunteers have been doing this work for years; others just since the beginning of the pandemic.

All have seen major changes in their lives and work. Some switched from running a business to volunteering full time. Others grappled with loss of work and isolation. Still others saw their workloads multiply beyond what they thought possible. All have been necessary in the struggle to help others during life with COVID-19.

“Volunteers are absolutely essential in hunger relief efforts related to the COVID-19 public health crisis,” Dixon writes to SFR. “The monumental increase in food distribution that took place in the past three months simply would not have been possible without the thousands of hours of effort put in by hundreds of volunteers.”

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Mariam Bartleson, left, and her coworkers loaded up prepared meals onto a school bus at Chaparral Elementary School in Santa Fe on June 26. The team then drove to the village of Glorieta to deliver the meals to families who need them.

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ariam Bartleson has been working for Santa Fe Public Schools for the last decade, managing kitchen staff and cooking. Normally she works at Aspen Community School and Milagro Middle School during the academic year, planning and cooking meals with fresh vegetables, fruits and other products from local farms. She loved it, especially making fresh Frito pies for the students with beef and cheese from New Mexico ranchers.

In the summers, Bartleson would manage the kitchens at Nina Otero Community School during SFPS’ various summer programs.

But this year is “different” and “really scary,” Bartleson tells SFR from behind her mask, standing in the sun outside Chaparral Elementary School and

handing out bags of food to families as they pull up every few minutes.

Instead of running the kitchens for a long summer of cooking for about 280 kids, she is putting together and distributing much simpler meals for the school district’s Summer Food Service Program that started June 8 and provides free breakfast and lunch three times a week.

The program began in response to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s order to provide schools with extra food in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Anyone 18 and under can get a free meal, even if they don’t go to any schools or programs in the Santa Fe district. Parents can pick up the food for their children. While the district offered breakfast and lunch during the

“We see the kids in the car and it’s nice because we get to say hi and talk to them and they’re just always happy to get their bag of food.”

She worries about her reduced summer work hours since there aren’t any kids to take care of. Normally she works eight hours a day, but COVID has reduced her work hours to just four or five hours three days a week—for now.

And there’s the fear of catching the virus.

“We worry about [getting sick] all the time,” Bartleson says. “We’re not allowed to work if we have fever. If we have aches, if we have a cough, then we let our boss know and then she won’t schedule us. But we try to protect ourselves the best we can.”

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early weeks of the program at seven schools, the summer schedule is for five locations.

Cooking up Frito pies has not been an option since COVID-19. Now, she and her co-workers assemble packaged food parents can easily serve at home: hot dogs, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chicken tenders, cheese sticks. Bartleson says she tries to switch up which products they hand out so it’s not the same food every day.

Over the last 10 years, Bartleson has gotten to know the children she feeds at the area public schools. She looked forward to the summers continuing to cook for and spend time with them.

“The hardest part is us having to be all covered up and then not being able to see the kids either,” Bartleson says.

Rick Sarwal still has a full time job at LANL, but now he’s also a regular worker at The Food Depot.

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orking from home at the start of the pandemic didn’t faze Rick Sarwal, who is employed at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a technical project manager. As soon as the remoteoffice order came down, he jumped into volunteering at The Food Depot with his newfound flexible schedule. He plans to continue volunteering indefinitely.

“The lab does a really good job in letting us know about volunteer opportunities and I’ve been dying to help,” Sarwal tells SFR. “I told my manager I plan on continuing this and he was fully on board with that.”

Sarwal has been inspired to volunteer his entire life because of his mother, who he says always volunteered and made food for those who needed it, usually through her church.

“I’m not a church type person; however, I do have that humane nature and spirit and [my] compassion towards hunger is huge, especially when I went back to take my dad’s remains to India,” Sarwal says. “Witnessing all those people in hunger and in New Mexico…I mean, you can’t get away from it here because we are a poor state.”

Sarwal was further motivated to both donate money and volunteer after the lab laid off some trade workers—such as janitors, when cleaning staff became less necessary due to many employees working from home—and he saw those employees struggling to buy food and other essentials after losing their jobs.

Typically, The Food Depot provides 528,000 pounds of food each month to various nonprofit partners and directly to people as well. But COVID-19 changed everything, and the organization had to scale up its operations in a major way.

Between March 9 and June 15, The Food Depot distributed more than 3 million pounds of food—enough to provide more than 2.5 million meals, and the number of people seeking assistance at a drive-through pantry increased from

a baseline of 1,200 people in February to a peak of 4,400 people at the end of April, according to Dixon.

Volunteers were desperately needed as well.

“A significant portion of our regular network of volunteers prior to the pandemic had to take a break from volunteering due to health concerns,” Dixon writes SFR in an email. “However, since The Food Depot’s COVID-19 response began, over 450 new individuals came forward to join the volunteer team. To meet the increased demand for food while maintaining social distancing practices, The Food Depot started volunteer projects at three off-site locations in addition to the warehouse.”

Handing out that many bags of food can take hours as lines curve for miles from the distribution sites. Part of Sarwal’s job includes ensuring the process moves as quickly as possible and that he and the other volunteers remain compassionate when people grow frustrated. He says the drive-through pickups early in the pandemic were particularly challenging because of the large volume of people needing help, but now the team has the system down to a science.

In order to move the food distribution along, Sarwal arrives an hour early to each shift, and each volunteer has a specific job to complete.

“I did have one or two volunteers that were upset when a person made a comment that they waited too long to get their food,” Sarwal says. “The most rewarding part is you see the need in people’s eyes and, when you’re loading their cars, you can visually see the hurt, the pain that they have; the fact that you give them food, it does bring some comfort to them and you can see the relief in their eyes when you do put the box or whatever we’re giving out to them.”

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nonprofit, all the money generated by the food trucks, cafés and catering funds the program, which helps future or current business owners run successful businesses.

The institute holds its classes at Central New Mexico Community College for both students and community members. Program participants learn how to work in a commercial kitchen, including: basic kitchen operations; knife safety and equipment safety; basic safe food handling; as well as knowledge of business permitting Street Food Institute requirements, menu development and cost analysis.

But when COVID-19 arrived, avid Sellers helped launch everything came to a “screeching, the Street Food Institute six screeching halt,” Sellers says. The food years ago. A nonprofit, it runs an trucks and cafés have only recently Entrepreneurial Food Management made a comeback and classes are online Training Course, as well as multiple now, but an important portion of the food trucks, two cafés and a catering organization’s income, catering, nearly business. And as a social enterprise

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disappeared.

To fill the time and continue working in food, Sellers and Executive Director Tina Garcia-Shams began distributing food at hospitals in Albuquerque.

Then they started working with Santa Fe Community College and World Central Kitchen to distribute thousands of meals to people in Northern New Mexico. Sellers has provided hot food in both Santa Fe and Albuquerque, as well as to other parts of rural Santa Fe County. Between just Madrid and Edgewood, Sellers and Garcia-Shames have plated 400 to 500 meals daily.

“They’ll show up and they take six meals and they literally eat that the whole week,” Sellers says. “At the Edgewood spot, we have three or four homeless people who show up and they’ll get like eight meals. Literally, it’s all they eat until the next time and then what we do too is if we have any stuff left over, we go to…St. Martin’s Shelter in Albuquerque, and we take the extra stuff there.”

The hardest aspect of the pandemic for Sellers was having to let go of the organization’s 50 employees before receiving a Paycheck Protection Program loan from the federal government.

“It took them almost two months to get paid, you know, it took a long time so they were really tight and again, you know, they’re low wage restaurant workers, essentially,” Sellers tells SFR. “They all live paycheck to paycheck so they were hurting for sure.”

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erry Dakan, SFCC’s lead culinary arts department faculty member, fills the last of hundreds of disposable boxes of hot meals—rows of enchiladas ready for distribution for a quick bite or reheating at home.

Before the pandemic, Dakan taught culinary and sanitation classes. When COVID-19 hit, he and the other faculty and students jumped into action, cooking and boxing meals as the school was closing down.

By late April, Dakan had helped kick off a collaboration between SFCC, World Central Kitchen, YouthWorks, the Santa Fe Public School district and local chefs to get as many meals out as possible to people suffering from hunger. The project was supported by the SFCC Foundation.

Alongside SFCC, local nonprofit YouthWorks distributed many of the meals, including to the pueblos.

Street Food Institute, the culinary entrepreneurship nonprofit, helped distribute them in rural areas such as Madrid, Edgewood and Nambé. World Central Kitchen, a non-governmental organization that provides meals after natural disasters, also helped with organization.

The goal: to distribute between 2,000 and 3,000 to-go meals per day for people in Northern New Mexico with many

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of the meals using vegetables grown in SFCC’s Controlled Environment Agriculture’s greenhouse.

“We all started seeing that we need to lean on each other and what was the most amazing thing was putting all of these volunteers together and pushing out as many meals as we did because I’ll be real honest, when they told me… I had my doubts,” Dakan says. “But once you see all the people come together for that meal and then you see the recipients, it’s, I mean, that power is now in our hands.”

By the time the program ended on June 26, organizers had the complex process down pat and had cooked and delivered more than 50,000 meals for people across Northern New Mexico in places that normally might not have mobile food distribution, such as trailer parks, reservations and more rural areas like Edgewood and Madrid.

As for Dakan, he says he’s exhausted— but now knows he wants to do humanitarian work for the rest of his life. He graduated from Le Cordon Bleu

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“I’m trying to start my own nonprofit.

But that takes some time,” Dakan says. “I just can’t see myself plating up a $42 meal anymore. I’d rather take all of that $42 and make 21 meals for just random strangers who need it…You got to get [food] to the right people. So that’s what we’re trying to do.”

Dakan hopes the meals he and his team cooked were empowering for

people. He sees food as more than just something to eat. It becomes a part of the community.

“Food is power and I’ve seen the misuse of that power,” Dakan says. “Just to have the ability to have a meal a day empowers somebody. So now we are liberating that one individual with just a meal, and that’s powerful and so, in a sense, I’ve seen a power shift.”

Another unintended consequence of the pandemic: Students are really taking hand-washing seriously.

“I’m a safety and sanitation expert,” Dakan tells SFR. “I mean, I have been teaching this the last nine years. I finally got everybody’s attention to wash their fucking hands. If we did anything, it’s hand-washing.”

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Cut to now-ish, this week, and the Santa Fe Opera’s Desirée Mays presents a webinar lecture on the festival. It’s a Zoom thing, and while we understand an opera lecture might be a hard sell for some, it might also scratch an itch for those lamenting the tragic cancellation of this year’s season. (ADV) The Wagner Dynasty from Richard to Katharina: 5 pm Thursday, July 2. Free.

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have to do a market that’s all summer long and bring in 10 artists at a time. We have a strategic planning committee that’s looking at all of the possibilities that are out there; we’re talking about setting up tents in our parking lots, we have a retail space as well. We’re gonna continue serving the artists in any way we can.”

The first week of the auction also includes an online gala event on Friday, July 10, and Ashman says whatever happens next, expect some type of virtual storefront will continue in order to support the artists who rely on the organization to survive.

“An online market will be ongoing regardless of what happens with COVID-19,” Ashman tells SFR. “The online sales, we think, will continue to grow.” Catch a preview this Sunday.

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Using this time to learn seems smart, and even if you think you know a lot about US Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, there’s room for plenty more.

Lewis has been a tireless advocate for civil rights, gun control, voters’ rights, healthcare reform and immigration, and filmmaker Dawn Porter (of the excellent 2018 miniseries documentary Bobby Kennedy for President) looks over his storied career. Through archival and modern-day footage, Porter takes us back through his earliest political days to his more current contributions to the American landscape. Given everything that’s going on, a history primer/refresher might do a lot to help folks understand today’s BLM protests, and Lewis, now 80, is pretty much a dynamo. Screen the film virtually through Violet Crown Cinema. (ADV) John Lewis: Good Trouble: Starts Friday, July 3. $12. santafe.violetcrown.com

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So many canceled events, so many organizations pivoting, so much summer weirdness—still so many opportunities.

With Albuquerque’s Balloon Fiesta announcing it’ll be canceled this year following a spate of similar happenings in Santa Fe, it’s easy to get discouraged and think everything’s ruined. Not so. For you see, friends, the internet is indeed a thing, and lo—it holdeth possibilities endless.

Take the upcoming IFAM Virtual One World series featuring auctions, a gala, artist talks and more. Obviously, we can’t all hit the International Folk Art Market’s gigantic Museum Hill party this year, but come 7 am on Wednesday, July 8, interested parties will be able to bid on more than 100 items—including pieces from roughly 75 artists spanning the globe.

“There’s no substitute for the in-person thing, because it’s a major celebration,” says Stuart Ashman, the annual market’s executive director and the man behind the home cooked Cuban meal auction item. “If the next phase is something like 100 people can gather, we may

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When the pandemic hit, the youths from the Upstart Crows theater company—that’s the one dedicated to Shakespeare—were already deep into rehearsals for Macbeth and, like, probably not saying the name out loud. Under the direction of one Liam Mitchell, himself a longtime Upstart Crow and certified Bard fanatic, they continued the work online. Once some restrictions lifted, they convened again, this time with masks and new ideas for blocking that fall well under the auspices of the state’s social distancing requirements. They are now ready to present the show live for a limited audience and, unless you want to become some kind of green-eyed monster, you’ll check it out. As long as you’re healthy and down with observing distancing and mask rules, that is. (ADV) Macbeth: 6:30 pm Friday, June 30-Sunday, July 5. $25. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674.

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rtists Vicente Telles and Brandon Maldonado have both been thinking a lot about identity, but it’s not a new area of study for the santero and the oil painter.

Neither came to the topic as the country finally started asking itself about racist institutions, racist monuments and racist systems; for these two, both native New Mexicans, questions of where they come from and who their ancestors were have inundated their works for years.

Look to Maldonado’s stunningly gorgeous Identidades show at Pop Gallery last year. At the time, he was processing the idea that nearly no one native to New Mexico has ancestors squarely in one camp.

“We carry both the blood of the conqueror and the conquered,” he told SFR at the time.

Both he and Telles continue to unpack that sentiment with a new collaborative piece set to display as part of a dual opening at Pop this week, and it cuts deeper than either has before. It’s also the first time the longtime friends have both worked on a singular piece.

“I was always interested in what he was doing artistically, and he was interested in what I was doing,” Telles tells SFR. “It was last year, finally, that we did something together.”

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The artists collaborated on the massive seven-panel “Guerra y Tierra” piece, for which the show is named.

Telles traces the beginning of the friendship back to his and Maldonado’s first year showing at Contemporary Spanish Market in 2007. They were new to that world and wound up on the periphery of the sprawling downtown market. Happenstance and proximity kicked off years of discussion, travels and, eventually, the upcoming Guerra y Tierra show at Pop. In the exhibit, each artist has numerous pieces that encapsulate their respective styles. Maldonado, for example, showcases recognizable neo-cubist illustrations in mediums like ink and charcoal—a choice, he says, that takes him back to his artistic roots. Telles’ paintings, inspired by Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” dig into border politics, specifically the cartons of water activists leave for im-

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migrants that wind up destroyed by Border Patrol, essentially killing people traversing the desert in search of better circumstances.

The jewel of the show, however, is the seven-panel altar piece, itself dubbed “Guerra y Tierra.”

Crafted by Maldonado and Telles in equal measure, it’s an awe-inspiring coming together of styles that might look like the work of a single artist if one didn’t bother to do one’s homework on Maldonado and Telles beforehand.

Crammed with stories of the Aztecs, the Spanish, the Anglos, the church, the conquest and reconquest, as well as a number of lesser-known stories from each culture, the piece also represents a shocking amount of subtext. Colors, Telles says, signify particular meaning; touches like

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the eagle, the jaguar warrior, the drowning conquistador, boat building, the body of Christ and even a chalice in use by a Franciscan monk reveal more hidden meanings, but each serves one main purpose according to the artists.

“In comics, it used to be you always easily know who is good, who is the villain, but eventually you started to see a lot of ambiguity,” Maldonado explains. “So you can kind of have empathy, sympathy for the villains, you can kind of say, maybe there is no hero here—maybe they all were very flawed and used their might…

Just because you have superior weapons, doesn’t mean there’s going to be peace.”

There is much to say about the corruptive influence of power and the dynamics of the territory now known as New Mexico in the 1600s, but for Telles and Maldonado, it was about a search for truth.

“Oñate wasn’t even from Spain,” Maldonado says. “He was from Zacatecas, Mexico, he had an Indigenous mother, and this myth that we’re all conquistadores from Spain…the smoking gun is that there were less than 500 conquistadores who came, and the Aztecs were in the middle of their own type of genocide—I just think it’s interesting that people only want to identify with one side of the story when there’s so much more.”

“Guerra y Tierra,” however, isn’t meant to criticize, it’s meant as both history lesson and conversation starter, maybe even the beginning to any interested party’s plan to look deeper into the history of New Mexico. Doing so has served Maldonado and Telles well.

“I feel like it’s a beautiful thing to recognize that we’re a creation of the land we come from,” Telles says. “What I am is a child of New Mexico. Are we rehashing an antiquated idea? Will it get lost in the shuffle? We’re just trying to tell our truth.”

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s COVID-19 numbers trend upward once more, the future of restaurants continues to hang in the balance. Which brings us to Piper Kapin, longtime owner/operator of Back Road Pizza (1807 Second St. #1, 9559055), pillar of the community and certified pizza champ. When other local restaurants eagerly announced they’d reopen at limited capacities, Kapin decided her restaurant would take it slow, only opening when the team felt ready.

SFR: Back Road has been a holdout as other Santa Fe restaurants start reopening. Can you speak to what went into that decision?

Kapin: I’ll start out by saying that the decision came from a very fortunate place of being able to pivot our business model and do well with it. Pizza going out the door and no contact service is working really well.

I’m super aware a lot of other restaurants and models don’t pivot that way, but pizza’s like a model citizen for takeout, so I was able to make that decision from the place of being fortunate. We were already financially doing OK, and honestly, that was kind of it. While I understand the tension around the economy versus health versus science, it just didn’t feel like it was time to open.

Now that COVID-19 numbers seem to be going back up, are things going to change at all for Back Road day-to day?

We have our new system down. The restaurant physically has transitioned, the staffing model has transitioned, we’re going to stay the course right now.

Do you think the restaurant as we once knew it is now dead?

I think the business is permanently changed. I think the world is permanently changed. The short answer is, it’s hard for me to imagine density happening. I

don’t know the answer. I do think business models will have to change. This one is working well for us, so I’m not unhappy doing what we’re doing. If it’s financially sustainable and continues to provide what the community needs, we can keep doing what we’re doing right now as a new model.

Back Road famously started offering grocery items during the pandemic.

Do you see that new element sticking?

I’d like for it to stick. Personally, I love spaces like that. I grew up going to Italian markets where there’s a deli and you can get sandwiches and pizza and food, but you can also get groceries and milk. I love that, but to me the grocery thing is dependent on what the community needs. I think we all learned a lot about the food chain—which was that all of a sudden the grocery chains didn’t have things the restaurant chains could still get. We started it because people couldn’t find yeast or flour and everybody was asking us; everybody wanted to bake bread all of sudden, which I found very charming. I’d be happy to continue if it’s a needed thing. We had, like, 45 items by the end of it, and a lot of people have said this saved them a trip to the grocery store. That’s cool, one less trip to the store, one person at high-risk getting no contact.

Has the city and/or state been as supportive as we’d all like to hope?

Something the state could do for restaurants would be to shift the laws so we can sell packaged alcohol out the door.

I’ve called [the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Division] several times now, and

I’ve talked to people about…even if it’s just beer and wine, or even if we make it local beer and wine only…I get calls every day from people looking for a six-pack or growler. We’ve thrown out gobs of beer and wine, and that’s something the state and the city together could do fairly easily.

That’s a difficult topic in New Mexico, but we’re all certified and we can do it safely.

What are you hearing from the restaurant owner community these days?

They’re really stressed, really confused, really unsure of how to make these big decisions. What does being able to open at 25 to 50% do? Whatever capacity you were running at before, there wasn’t a bunch of [extra] money to give up. You essentially need to have the amount of staffing at 50% capacity as you do at 100%, so it really crushes your profits. I know people who are facing closure and uncertainty and were unable to figure out how to get people interested in choosing them as a takeout model. We’re supposed to be leaders, and this is really unprecedented.

Everyone’s looking at us about the decisions and how to do everything, but none of us have done this or faced something like this before.

If you could give one piece of advice to the general public about dining right now, what would it be?

I would say wear a mask and tip well.

Everyone working in a restaurant right now is putting themselves at risk every day. Please help us stay safe. I want to say, it’s not just you, it’s the 99 other people we need to engage with throughout the day, too.

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No one is calling former Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s dedication to politics into question here. He’s proven he cares. But the overall messaging of the new film Irresistible—which Stewart wrote and directed—comes at a rather strange time in American history, and it might come across as tone deaf, or at least not particularly timely.

Steve Carell plays Gary Zimmer, a DC-based campaign big shot grappling with the fallout of Hillary Clinton’s lost election, which might have been his fault. Meanwhile, in a dying town in rural Wisconsin, a veteran/farmer named Jack (the always excellent Chris Cooper) gains Gary’s attention with an impassioned speech about immigration gone viral.

Wanting to reconnect with Middle America (as a potential constituency, anyway), Gary heads to the Cheese Belt, offers to run Jack’s campaign and transforms the area into a political circus. His Republican counterpart Faith (a woefully underused Rose Byrne) emerges not far behind to work for the other guy—partly for similar reasons to Gary’s, partly just to humiliate him, partly to add some low-stakes conflict— and soon, the nation’s eyes are on the race and steadily mounting complications. Oh, also, he has a crush on Jack’s daughter. Whatevs.

Had Irresistible come out a year or two ago,

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When Bugs Bunny appeared as Brunhilda, looking hot AF in a bikini on the back of a rainbow unicorn, Elmer Fudd fell in wuv. But when he found out his Hilda was instead the very “him” he’d been hunting, Fudd reacted with anger, turning bedeviled red with renewed threats of murder.

That Warner Bros. cartoon episode What Opera, Doc? aired in 1950 and repeated the trope of transwomen as a target of violence that was already ingrained in television and movies. More than four decades later, at the end of Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, the audience is supposed to leave in stitches as everyone on screen vomits at the sight of a penis tucked into a pair of the villain’s underwear.

From the earliest silent films, through the cross-dressing Norman Bates in Psycho and the Showtime lesbian-focused miniseries The L Word, (whose transman Max marked the first of his kind on television), the documentary Disclosure revisits the medium through 20

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its tactical takedown of political spending, prejudices against small town USA and not-so-subtle jabs at Trump and big politicking might have landed with aplomb. Instead, with murderous police, COVID-19, Black Lives Matter protests, thousands sick and many more dead, it feels inconsequential. Stewart’s script is smart, and Carell is as fun as ever, but we’re also not learning anything we don’t already know—politics sure are messed up, right? Irresistible is unlikely to change minds.

Granted, there’s a twist you might not see coming that asks us to delve into our own weird notions of America and its denizens, but there’s

really nobody to side with. That is obviously Stewart’s point, but one that seems frivolous when the question in the country has become less about how to work within the system and more about how to dismantle it.

Toss in a few comedy standby jokes and some bit parts from Natasha Lyonne and Topher Grace, and you’ll forget you chuckled once or twice at this movie within the month.

ELLA FITZGERALD: JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS

sected with white folks’ fascination with Black culture.

Even at the height of her powers, Fitzgerald struggled to break into the mainstream (it took Marilyn Monroe promising to attend nightly shows for Fitzgerald to get out of the small jazz club circuit and onto theater stages), and even as a post-WWII America ravenously bought up her albums, she never quite got the credit she was due while she was alive. After her death, sadly, is a different story, and her contributions to jazz, bebop and improvisational singing are, of course, well-documented.

Do your homework prior to watching It’s Just One of Those Things and you’re bound to find a lot to love, but it’s hard to recommend to those unfamiliar with jazz, torch songs and/ or the music of the era. If you already love this woman, Woodhead’s doc will cement it further. If you don’t, however, you’re not likely to find this film, let alone let it wash over you.

This isn’t a good thing, of course, but the hallmark of a really powerful documentary is in its ability to teach us something new. (Alex De Vore)

the eyes of contemporary trans actors and writers. Their personal reflections land on the nuanced joy of understanding transness through the depiction in the television and films as well as the terror of the perpetuation of stereotype and sanctioned cruelty.

We would watch anything co-producer Laverne Cox puts her name to, but hearing her talk about what it felt like to see a trans character on The Jeffersons or watch the “disclosure” episode of Nip/Tuck, for example, took that admiration to a new level. So too, did words from the likes of Jazzmun, Bianca Leigh and Jen Richards.

Director Sam Feder should be commended for the approach: not just critique of the mainstream, but also a window into defiant and celebratory depictions of trans characters. Ever heard of the 1968 documentary The Queen? How about 1990s Paris is Burning, or better yet 2018’s Pose, which center the story of trans women of color?

There’s so much more to tell—and better ways to tell it—than The Crying Game.

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You’re never going to mistake Ella Fitzgerald for another voice, and though a new documentary about the singer is an interesting enough look back over a storied career, it’s what we might call an “eat your vegetables” kind of experience.

Director Leslie Woodhead (Diana: The Day Britain Cried) gives us the inside scoop on Fitzgerald, from her early days at the Apollo Theater to touring with drummer Chick Webb; hooking up with manager Norman Granz to delve into the Great American Songbook; facing racism, love issues, late-in-life happenings and more. Through interviews with family, friends and descendants of those who were there— plus TV performances and interview footage, old recordings and radio appearances—we’re not only reminded that Fitzgerald sang flawlessly (seriously, though—flawlessly), we’re reminded that America’s long-standing issues with racism have pretty much always inter-

IRRESISTIBLE Directed by Stewart, With Carell, Byrne and Cooper VoD, R, 101 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries author Marge Piercy writes, “The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.” The Aries people I love best will do just that in the coming days. Now is not the right time to wait around passively, lazily hoping that something better will come along. Nor is it prudent to procrastinate or postpone decisions while shopping around for more options or collecting more research. Dive, Aries, dive!

not! In my vision of your destiny, you will always keep evolving and transforming; you will ceaselessly transcend your existing successes and push on to accomplish further breakthroughs and victories. Now would be an excellent time to rededicate yourself to this noble aspiration. I invite you to dream and scheme about three specific wonders and marvels you would like to experience during the next five years.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip by Bill Watterson. It features a boy named Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes. In the first panel of one story, Calvin is seated at a school desk looking perplexed as he studies a question on a test, which reads “Explain [Isaac] Newton’s First Law of Motion in your own words.” In the second panel, Calvin has a broad smile, suddenly imbued with inspiration. In the third panel, he writes his response to the test question: “Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork.

Chumble spuzz.” The fourth panel shows him triumphant and relaxed, proclaiming, “I love loopholes.” I propose that you use this scenario as your victorious metaphor in the coming weeks, Taurus. Look for loopholes!

And use them to overcome obstacles and solve riddles.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has advice that would serve you well in the coming weeks. She says, “Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won’t regret it.” In accordance with your astrological potentials, I’m inclined to amend her statement as follows: “Keep a sizable space in your heart for the improbable. You’ll be rewarded with catalytic revelations and intriguing opportunities.” To attract blessings in abundance, Scorpio, be willing to set aside some of your usual skepticism and urge for control.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Malidoma Somé lives in the U.S. now, but was born in the West African country of Burkina Faso. He writes, “In the culture of my people, the Dagara, we have no word for the supernatural. The closest we come to this concept is GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “It is a fault to wish to be Yielbongura, ‘the thing that knowledge can’t eat.’ This word suggests that the life and power of certain things understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves,” wrote philosopher and activist Simone depend upon their resistance to the categorizing knowlWeil. I’m hoping that this horoscope of mine can edge that human beings apply to everything.” I bring help you avoid that mistake. In the coming weeks Somé’s thoughts to your attention, Sagittarius, because and months, you will have a stronger-than-usual I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will encounter need to be seen for who you really are—to have your more than the usual number of experiences that knowlessential nature be appreciated and understood by edge can’t eat. They might at times be a bit spooky or people you care about. And the best way to make confounding, but will mostly be interesting and fun. I’m sure that happens is to work hard right now on seeguessing that if you embrace them, they will liberate ing, appreciating, and understanding yourself. you from overly literal and materialistic ideas about how the world works. And that will be good for your soul.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some readers wish I would write more like Cormac McCarthy or Albert CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Pioneer Capricorn Camus or Raymond Chandler: with spare simplicity. scientist Isaac Newton is often hailed as one of histoThey accuse me of being too lush and exuberant in my ry’s greatest geniuses. I agree that his intellectual prose. They want me to use shorter sentences and capacities were sublime. But his emotional intellifewer adjectives. To them I say: It ain’t going to hapgence was sparse and feeble. During the time he pen. I have feelings similar to those of best-selling taught at Cambridge University, his talks were so Cancerian author Oliver Sacks, who the New York affectless and boring that many of his students Times called, “one of the great clinical writers of the skipped most of his classes. I’ll encourage you to 20th century.” Sacks once said, “I never use one adjective if six seem to me better and, in their cumula- make Newton your anti-role model for the next eight tive effect, more incisive. I am haunted by the density weeks. This time will be favorable for you to increase your mastery of three kinds of intelligence beyond the of reality and try to capture this with ‘thick description.’” I bring these thoughts to your attention, my fel- intellectual kind: feeling, intuition, and collaboration. low Cancerian, because I think it’s important for you AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When future writer to be your lavish, sumptuous, complex self in the com(and Aquarius) Charles Dickens was 12 years old, his ing weeks. Don’t oversimplify yourself or dumb yourparents and siblings got incarcerated in a debtors’ self down, either intellectually or emotionally. prison. To stay alive and help his family, he took a job LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Travel writer Paul Theroux has working 12 hours a day, six days a week, pasting labels journeyed long distances by train: once from Britain to on pots of boot polish in a rotting, rat-infested wareJapan and back again, and then from Massachusetts house. Hard times! Yet the experiences he had there to Argentina. He also rode trains during part of his later provided him with rich material for the novels expedition from Cairo to Cape Town. Here’s one of his that ultimately made him wealthy and beloved. In preconclusions: “It is almost axiomatic that the worst dicting that you, too, will have future success at capitrains take you through magical places.” I’d like to talizing on difficulty, I don’t mean to imply you’ve offer a milder version of that counsel as your metaendured or will endure anything as harsh as Dickens’ phor for the coming weeks: The funky, bumpy, rickety ordeal. I’m just hoping to help you appreciate the influences will bring you the best magic. motivating power of your challenging experiences.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Philosopher Miguel de PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Maybe you feel that the Unamuno declared, “Everything that exalts and ongoing pandemic has inhibited your ability to explore expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.” This idea will be and deepen intimacy to the degree that would like to. intensely true for and applicable to you in the coming But even if that’s the case, the coming weeks will provide openings that could soften and remedy your preweeks, Virgo. It will be your sacred duty—both to dicament. So be extra receptive and alert to the clues yourself and to those you care about—to enlarge that life reveals to you. And call on your imagination to your understandings of how the world works and to look for previously unguessed and unexpected ways to push your awareness to become more inclusive and reinvent togetherness and tenderness. Let’s call the empathetic. What’s your vision of paradise-onnext three weeks your Season of Renewing Rapport. earth? Now is a good time to have fun imagining it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What do you want to be when you grow up, Libra? What’s that you say? You firmly believe you are already all grown up? I hope

Homework: Decide on three special words that will from now on serve as magic spells for you. Keep them secret! Don’t even tell me. RealAstrology.com

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