October 23, 2019: Santa Fe Reporter

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Open Letter To Dr. William Parker, DDS PA R T T H R E E

SUPPORT FOR THE NEW OLD TRAIL GARAGE KEEPS GROWING!

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ur efforts to keep the “New Old Trail Garage” open continues. Peter Wirth has obtained consent from Ranger and Joe to mediate with the owner of the property, Dr. William Parker, DDS. They have traded phone messages.

The hope is they will get together soon.

In the meantime, nearly fifty additional people in the community have asked to be noted as supporters for Ranger and Joe, bringing the total to more than a hundred people. Here are five of the testimonials from 24 offered:

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I came to the New Old Trail Garage only recently – June – but I have received low costs, precise, compassionate service there. I live in the neighborhood and feel that this business is exactly the type of operation that needs to remain in the area.

— Kristie Nelsen

My parents used the New Old Trail Garage from 1986 until their deaths more than 20 years later and I have been using their wonderful services for the past 12 years. I could not imagine not having access to Ranger and Joe at the Garage.

— Jane Abbott

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[the New Old Trail Garage was] my introduction to Santa Fe via the Pecos Trail route in 1981 and stands the test of time. We don’t need to gentrify everything in town. I think the garage should have a historical plaque!

— Dale Osman

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Ranger is my valuable, much appreciated mechanic... the owner should be happy because his lease holder does so much good for the neighborhood.

— Monica Steinhoff

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Please add my name to your list. I am a long-time customer, over 30 years: even before Ranger became the owner.

— Kami Gupta Part Four describing the New Old Trail Garage and Dr. Parker’s other properties will follow another issue.

Any other customers, friends and admirers of Joe and Ranger who wish to join in this effort, please let us know at:

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I feel that in our small communities, it’s important to know and support each other.

CHANGING OUR MIND ON D4 7 After histories of domestic violence emerged, we withdraw our original endorsements SCENTS OF ART AND ALCHEMY 9 Enchanted and bespoke plant-based perfumery opens in Midtown ON THE RECORD 11 Decade-old state statute changes protect accusers’ information online while potentially concealing records of abuse COVER STORY 12 LIT FOR ALL Three selections from the 2019 Santa Fe Literary Review, with a little history

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27 IRONIC ICONS Don’t call painter Patrick McGrath Muñiz a political artist just because his work can veer toward the political. He’s processing his world and reclaiming the light.

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The definition of defamation—look it up—there is no defamation in the letter. I was happy to see a public official publicly support what he believes in. Don’t think it will compromise his reputation.

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CITY ELECTION

Changing our mind on D4

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hat we hope never happens just did. Last week SFR endorsed Greg Scargall as its pick for District 4 City Council. We are now withdrawing that endorsement and giving it instead to Jamie CassuttSanchez.

It’s a time-honored tradition for the editors and publishers at local newspapers to take a hard look at the candidates and issue a recommendation.

With SFR’s District 4 endorsement, I read everything that had been published by and about the candidates, spent time listening to them in person, and checked in with our reporters who vetted their claims and backgrounds.

I chose Scargall because he seemed like a person who demonstrated more commitment, growth and potential than the other two candidates in the race. Maybe he still does.

But it’s now become clear he also demonstrates a pattern of angry, troubling behavior, and SFR cannot stand behind its original choice.

I knew Scargall had an unprosecuted domestic violence allegation from 2012.

He had told The New Mexican as much when he ran for office the last time around. I knew he’d had trouble with alcohol and I understood he had been working hard for seven years to stay sober. And I thought all of that was in his past.

SFR learned two days after publishing its endorsement that Scargall’s wife had called 911 in early September to ask for police intervention again. Police reports indicate she told officers a verbal fight ensued because she got home late and forgot to buy milk on the way. She filed for divorce this month.

The news sent our reporter to the courthouse, where she found case files on two other times police investigated claims between the couple, including the 2012 incident in which Scargall’s wife says he grabbed her by the face, threw her around and left bruises.

No charges were filed then or after the incident on Sept. 11, and Scargall’s wife declined to speak with reporters about it. (See page 11). Nonetheless, the records cast doubt on his candidacy.

SFR has reported on New Mexico’s systemic domestic violence problem over the years and does not feel comfortable

endorsing a candidate who has alleged incidents of it so prominently featured in his history.

That same trip to the courthouse led to the revelation that a second candidate in the race also has an old, unprosecuted domestic violence case.

Xavier Anderson says that 2010 request for a protective order was a product of “an ugly divorce” with one of his exwives and that he’s now been happily remarried for eight years. When we published that information, however, his reaction to our reporting wasn’t the stuff of leadership.

So that leaves us with Jamie CassuttSanchez. She needs to develop more ideas and knowledge about city policy, which is what put her at the bottom of our initial list. But she’s got a clean record. She’s highly educated and has a vested interest in the future here, the city where she grew up. She’s clear-eyed and she wants to be your city councilor, District 4. She’ll add a perspective that’s not present on the council now, both as a public health professional and a as young mother. She’s today’s best choice.

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Scents of Art and Alchemy

Local botanical perfumemaker opens shop for public demonstration of a lost art

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tepping through the door of perfume artist Roxana Villa’s shop on Lena Street is like stepping through a magic portal into an aromatic choose-your-own-adventure story. Every object in the room—the cabinet of curiosities along the far wall, the jars of herbs on the shelves, flowers hung from the ceiling, the ancient-looking copper still on the table—provides a reference point in the interwoven narratives Villa creates using scent as her chosen medium for storytelling.

Arriving on a chilly Friday afternoon at Roxana Illuminated Perfume, SFR finds Villa in the back room plucking leaves of fresh sage into a glass still. Villa says she loves to experiment with distillations from local plant matter, handing SFR a jar of sweet, lemony smelling liquid—the essence of chamisa, distilled last week.

Top: Roxana Villa inhales the aroma of her label’s signature Villa creates her perfumes and skinperfumes. Right: A graphic novel and conceptual musical album care entirely with botanical materials,

by Villa’s husband, Greg Spalenka. excepting the beeswax from her own hives used for hard perfume.

She says “meditation on the natural the Lena Street Lofts Autumn Festival, and fresh grass world” influences many of her custom wafting from and the shop will be open to the public. scents. Her latest collection, for instance, Perfumes line the cabinet in the front the glass. is a “bestiary” of endangered animals, Continuing room, none of them labeled. each scent inspired by the person“It is important to smell a scent the ritual all ality of a species on the verge with no preconceptions,” Vil- the way down of extinction. Dolphin, la explains. “Scent mem- the line, SFR for example, smells ories and associations discovers scents that of sea breeze with are often emotional are bright and citrusy, while others are something bright and physical; the more herbaceous, taking on an almost and cheerful in memories are felt medicinal fragrance of greenery. Deep, the mix. in the body. To woodier aromas, reminiscent of incense Choosing a know if a scent and leather come last. perfume here Each perfume, Villa tells SFR, is craftis right for you, is a fully imyou have to get ed around a story of a person or a place, a mersive expeout of your head plant or an animal. Take Vespertina, for rience, which is and get in touch instance, a luscious perfume inspired by partly why Villa with how it makes the heroine of a graphic novel and conrarely has open ceptual musical album by Villa’s husyou feel.” store hours, preferband, Greg Spalenka. The perfume illuEach tin of fraCA ring to see customers grant wax sits under minates the tale of a 13th century mystic AH LE by appointment so she an individual glass dome whose romance with a gallant knight is can focus all her attention on that traps the aromatic mol- captured by the scents of rose and jasVilla recently guiding guests toward finding ecules as they rise, captur- mine. When worn on the skin, however, distilled local their perfect scent. ing the scent. Villa lifts the the floral scent eventually fades into the piñon pine resin using On Sunday, Oct. 27, howevdome of the first perfume, base note of frankincense to symbolize this copper er, Villa will perform a distilloffering it to SFR for a deep the heroine’s journey of self-discovery still. ing demonstration as part of inhale of the smell of flowers and her devotion to the divine.

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The husband and wife frequently work together, Spalenka creating vivid illustrations to accompany each of Villa’s perfumes.

Another aroma is leafy and fresh, an ode to the California live oak and the successful battle to save eight specific trees from a high-rise developer in a neighborhood where Villa once lived.

Villa began her career as an editorial illustrator in New York City, and later worked as an aromatherapist in Los Angeles. She stumbled on perfume as the perfect union of her talents when she discovered the historical connection between artists, perfumers and alchemists in medieval Europe. Adding alchemy to the mix, she says, contributed to her sense of having found a higher purpose for her craft.

While she is constantly following her own inspiration, Villa specializes in making custom perfumes for people who want something entirely their own.

Villa blames the association between perfume and artifice on corporate perfume houses that use synthetic chemicals to create overpowering products advertised as tools for seduc seduction.

For Villa, perfume allows for the discovery and expresexpres sion of authenticity.

“Imagine you are putting on a perfume because of what it makes you feel, because it really resonates with who you are and helps you go through the world being as authentic as you can be,” she enthuses.

Taking SFR upstairs, Villa shows SFR how to identify the different elements of a perfume, the chemistry that differentiates the top note—the smell that rises first when a perfume is worn—from the base note: the smell that lingers last. These are just some of the topics she teaches in her online classes and live workshops, the next of which is coming up in November.

She says passing the knowledge on is critical, because not many people practice the traditional methods anymore, the “lost arts” of the aromatic magician.

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On the Record Maze of domestic violence allegations mars District 4 City Council race

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him up downtown because he had “too many drinks” and she didn’t want him to drive. In the car, he began shouting at her and grabbing her clothing in front of the couple’s two small children. Once they reached the couple’s driveway, he “threw me around in [the] car and then started yanking at my face, grabbed me, threw me out, pushed me on the ground.” According to the application, the beating left bruises on her face, neck, both arms, elbows and legs.

Her petition for an order of protection was initially granted but, after two continuances in court, and new petitions from both sides to dismiss the case, District Court Judge Sarah Singleton dropped it.

Scargall’s wife filed for divorce during that time, but never completed the filing.

Scargall has said publicly since then that he is a recovering alcoholic, but denies that he physically abused his wife.

Rather, in regards to the 2012 allegation, Scargall told SFR he was too drunk to drive, his wife came to find him at the bar and they went home and argued, but “that was it.”

Scargall intends to stay in the race, and says he believes someone told journalists about the most recent incident to damage him politically.

On Friday, the candidate posted a video to Facebook in which he apologized to his wife and family.

While Scargall previously admitted to a domestic violence allegation in an interview with The New Mexican in 2017 when he first ran for the seat, the details of the 2012 case were never publicized.

The allegations highlight a tension between the public’s right to transparency from public officials and victims’ rights to protection.

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nlike most criminal court records that are accessible with a few keyboard strokes on the internet, New Mexico’s domestic violence records are not available online. Information about harms inflicted within a household must be obtained via in-person request at the courthouse.

This omission from online databases stems from a 2008 statute aimed at protecting victims’ identities and whereabouts. Until last week, it also protected City Council candidate Greg Scargall from public scrutiny of past and more recent allegations that could indicate a troublesome pattern.

The District 4 candidate has been accused twice of domestic violence against his wife—in 2010 and 2012—and was the subject of a “domestic violence welfare check” involving the couple last month.

Police and court records show that Santa Fe Police officers went to the Scargalls’ Pueblos del Sol neighborhood home on Sept. 11 around 9:30 pm after Scargall’s wife called them. When officers arrived, a police report says, the pair said their argument had been “verbal only” and police left the home without arresting anyone.

She filed for divorce weeks later.

SFR reported the story late last week on its website after obtaining the report from police. A review of records held at the First Judicial District Court revealed older allegations against Scargall that are more detailed and violent than the latest incident, though he has never been prosecuted.

In 2010, his wife filed an application for a restraining order after Scargall allegedly followed her around the house, yelling at and “threatening” her, but the case was dismissed after a “mutual” agreement between Scargall and his wife, court records show.

In July 2012, Scargall—who was then identified by the name Greg Lucero in court documents—allegedly physically attacked his wife.

In her second application for a restraining order, she wrote that she had picked

City Council candidate Greg Scargall’s campaign has become controversial after news of repeated domestic violence allegations.

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on laws that protect accusers’ identities online as an important step in encouraging victims of violence to speak up. peti “This is a safety issue because petipro tioners who think that there’s no protection for confidentiality will not file.

They simply won’t do it,” she says, which “leaves people very vulnerable to abuse. I think the way that it has been handled is the best compromise … you can’t find the information online but you can find the information if you go to the courthouse and look it up.”

Scargall faces two opponents in the Nov. 5 City Council contest for District 4, safe including Xavier Anderson, a public safety worker who also has an unprosecuted domestic violence case on his record.

Anderson’s now ex-wife asked for a protective order in 2010 when she said Anderson prevented cou her from leaving the couple’s home and stalked her. In an interview with SFR last week, he said the allegations came up around the time of “an ugly divorce.”

The revelation that two of the three candidates have been accused of domestic violence raises the question for voters: Should a tarnished record disqualify a person from holding public office?

“I’m not the person to make that judgement … I’d be very interested to hear what the four women sitting on council would have to say,” says District 4’s third candidate, Jamie CassuttSanchez.

She has a background in public health, a clean criminal record and is the mother of a toddler.

“I don’t want to win by default,” she says, “I want to win because my ideas resonate with the public.”

Cassutt-Sanchez says she and her campaign staff had no knowledge of the allegations and were “shocked” to read SFR’s earlier report.

Lewis, the director of Santa Fe Safe, says not all domestic violence cases are created equal, and it is important to remember that domestic violence can cover a broad range of nuanced contexts.

“Some [cases] might be a one-time incident between a couple that’s resolved it, and another order of protection could be a very, very serious threat to the life of the victim,” she says. “ … And while I find serious character flaws in people who have engaged in domestic violence, it may or may not disqualify them for public office.”

Katherine Lewin contributed to this report.

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launch a literary magazine, a request she from the start had a vision of the magsays could have been “a bit off-mission azine as one that would reflect Santa Fe. for most academics.” But Sagan “knew “There’s rings: The community college that world, and I know how to run a was the heart, then the extended comproduction schedule, which is the single munity of Santa Fe, and then the nation most important thing.” and the world,” she So she set up the says.

Literary Review in the The magazine also same model followed by was intended to provide literary and underground the program’s writing magazines across the students—who can earn country. She put together certificate and associate a staff and put out a call degrees—experience for “slush.” both publishing as well “Slush is a rude word,” as working on a literary she tells SFR. “It means magazine. Students can unsolicited. I don’t think apply for an internship there’s any way to train with the magazine as an editor in terms of a three-credit course, running a literary magawhich is how many of zine without a giant catits editors begin. tle call. You have no idea It’s also how its curwhat the world is like. rent faculty advisor, You don’t know what’s Kate McCahill, one of good and bad. You don’t SFCC’s English Departknow that famous people ment administrative write terrible things and chairs, became involved.

-Miriam Sagan, un-famous people write McCahill took over runSFLR founder great things and people ning the magazine from with great cover letters Sagan in 2016, after she send you terrible things worked, at Sagan’s invietc., etc., etc. I trained tation, alongside student them. That’s what I know interns. how to do: I know how to read slush.”

Those students continue in the tradiSagan, who has authored more than tion of reading the slush submitted from a dozen books and also co-founded the June to November. Each submission is collaborative press Tres Chicas Books, read by three interns who evaluate the pieces before turning them over to the editors overseeing the genres of poetry, nonfiction and fiction. Student staff members also help with the design, the magazine’s reading events and anything else that falls under the editorial purview.

“It’s for students who know they’re writers,” McCahill says, “and they know they want editorial experience; sometimes they want to give back to the community, but it’s more: They’re doing a job.”

Sagan’s original vision of a magazine where the work coalesced has codified into themed issues in the past few years. The 2019 edition is themed around “Raíces: Down to the Roots.” The 2020 issue’s theme is “The Spaces Between: Exploring freedom, distance, movement + time.” Nov. 1 is the deadline to submit.

Poet Miriam Sagan founded The Santa The magazine remains committed Fe Literary Review 15 years ago modeled to representing Santa Fe. “We are very on the tradition of the underground and place focused,” McCahill says, “so we reliterary presses.

There’s rings: The community college was the heart, then the extended community of Santa Fe, and then the nation and the world.

The Santa Fe Literary Review celebrates 15 years of fostering Santa Fe’s writing community and creating space for under-represented voices

BY JULIA GOLDBERG @votergirl

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echnically, The Santa Fe Literary Review was founded on the Santa Fe Community College campus. But its roots stretch farther back and across the country to the underground magazine scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1975. That’s when poet Miriam Sagan, a recent Harvard graduate, spotted a call at the Grolier bookstore for someone to read poetry for the underground anti-war Aspect Magazine, run by Edward J Hogan out of Northeastern University.

“So, there was this crossover between the underground magazine world and the literary world,” Sagan says. She had already been involved with underground magazines and zines since high school, and began working with Hogan; the two went on later to found the small award-winning literary imprint Zephyr Press.

Fifteen years ago, Sagan also created SFCC’s Creative Writing program, and was asked, at the time, to concurrently

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ally try to embody Santa Fe and all of its many facets and faces and voices.”

But the magazine also has evolved to “promoting voices that may not be represented in the mainstream or even by most literary magazines.”

Nonfiction editor Holly Beck has held her position for five years; she became involved with the magazine after taking a writing class with Sagan.

“I’ve been very committed to soliciting and wanting to publish voices of under-represented people,” she says, often drawing on contacts she has from her current MFA program and others she knows from the literary world. “It’s important for people to be exposed to different stories,” she says. “I don’t think you can develop your humanity as a person if you’re not exposed to people who don’t look like you, who don’t experience things the same way, who don’t see the world through eyes the way you do. I think that’s what breeds empathy. I’m hoping by being able to bring some stories to the forefront that might not be heard, we’re able to have that impact.”

That goal is shared by all the editors with whom SFR spoke. Poetry Editor Serena Rodriguez went back to school at SFCC into the nursing program when she was 34 but, after a year, realized writing was her passion. She had published before, but the piece she published in SFLR while an intern was her first work published in Santa Fe, and “it was a very big deal … to have that

Poetry Editor Serena Rodriguez switched from studying nursing to creative writing and is now finishing up her undergraduate degree at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Santa Fe Literary Review Faculty Advisor Kate McCahill and Fiction Editor Austin Eichelberger say the magazine is a labor of love.

taken and accepted and to get this great response with that piece meant a lot and gave me more courage doing what I love.”

The most recent edition is her third as poetry editor; she received an associate degree in creative writing at SFCC, and is now a senior creative writing major at the Institute of American Indian Arts and working on MFA applications.

SFLR has been collaborating more with IAIA, McCahill says, and the most recent edition includes fiction by IAIA faculty member Tommy Orange, whose novel There There was a 2019 Pulitzer finalist. SFLR Fiction Editor Austin Eichelberger, who attended IAIA’s MFA program with Orange, arranged for the piece, as well as for the SFLR staff to interview Orange about writing. “He’s such a nice guy,” Eichelberger says. “He was so down to talk to the students.”

This week, SFR worked with SFLR to present an excerpt of that interview, as well as a nonfiction story from SFCC student James Hena, “Every Day.”

“I love that piece,” Beck says. “I think it’s very evocative showing an alternative relationship between men that is possible in terms of sympathy and care and nurturing.”

SFR also is reprinting the poem “The Butterfly Doesn’t Know” by Ashley Inguanta. “It struck me so hard when I read it,” Rodriguez says. “It’s about a relationship and it’s about memories and how we box these memories in and the way it takes the turn at the end, I just love it.”

The Santa Fe Literary Review is accepting submissions through Nov. 1.

The theme of this year’s issue is “The Spaces Between: Exploring freedom distance, movement and time.” The magazine accepts creative nonfiction, dramatic writing, fiction and poetry.

Complete guidelines available at www.sfcc.edu/call-for-submissions.

Contact sflr@sfcc.edu for more info.

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ON SOUND AND INSPIRATION: AQ&A with Tommy Orange

Members of the Santa Fe Literary Review staff were honored to interview Tommy by phone on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. This is an excerpt of that interview.

Austin Eichelberger, Editor: As the Fiction Editor for the magazine, I’m going to start off with the first question. Did you always know you wanted to be a writer, and if not, what else was on your mind?

Tommy Orange: I definitely did not know until after college. Looking back, I was doing weird writing that I probably wouldn’t have even called writing. I just remember [writing] in the margins of books and the backs of pages – maybe it was poetry, I don’t know. I wouldn’t have ever talked about it with anyone, and I wouldn’t have identified doing it. I definitely wasn’t encouraged to do anything academic, never had a single conversation about going to college with my parents, but I was good at roller hockey, which was okay in the nineties. I played for a travelling team and then I dropped out of school, did a lot of drugs, ended up a musician when I was 18, and then I went to school for sound engineering. When I graduated from that school, there were no job prospects. I learned a lot of analog reporting as we were moving into the digital age, so all of it became immediately irrelevant. [Laughter.]

So, I got a job at a used bookstore, and I fell in love with fiction while there. And then, I figured out I wanted to be a writer after being an avid reader of fiction. That was in 2004 or 2005, so I guess I’ve known for about thirteen years.

Austin: What an amazing story! I’m going to pass you to our first student intern now, who’s going to ask the next question.

Olivia Parent, Student Intern: Hi there! My question is: Tell us about a few of your inspirations – which could have to do with writing or otherwise.

Tommy: I guess my first experience of creating art was music, and I listen to music every time I write. There’s not a single time I’m writing that I’m not listening to music. Music in general is a really big inspiration to me. I play piano, and it’s kind of a nonverbal form

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of expression that inspires me in ways that are maybe intangible. Writing-wise, [Franz] Kafka and [Jorge Luis] Borges are two inspirations, and I’ve been reading lots of philosophy and religious texts. When I was working at that used bookstore, [my co-workers] were the first ones to kind of turn me on to fiction, and then John Kennedy Toole’s Confederacy of Dunces was a really big book for me, because it was the first time I was moved by a novel. Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar did the same thing for me, as far as novels go.

And then there’s a lot of international writing – I kind of avoided the American canon, and even the Native American canon, because a lot of that is reservation-based, and it just made me feel even more isolated from the Native community, reading it.

I love the Native fiction now, but I didn’t come around to reading it until much later in my career, and even since I’ve been at the Institute of American Arts (IAIA). Then there’s Clarice Lispector, and the The Hour of the Star particularly is a really important book to me. There’s [writer] Denis Johnson – once I did start reading American novels – and Colum McCann and Louise Erdrich, obviously. More recently, Ocean Vuong – I just got an Advance Reader Copy of his novel, and I always want my favorite poets to write novels instead of poetry, so it’s like a dream come true. [Laughter.] That’s what comes to mind right now. There is a lot of great fiction that came out this year that’s really inspiring – and makes you want to write better.

Olivia: Right on!

Darlene Goering, Student Intern: Hi Tommy!

What’s the hardest thing about the writing process, for you?

Tommy: I think as somebody who more often than not is in a state of self-loathing on the page, revising, it’s always kind of painful, but it’s the work you have to do to make your pages better, so you sort of have to fall in love with revision, and find as many strategies as you can to bear with what that feels like as you’re trying to make yourself better on the page.

Tommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at IAIA, where he now serves as a faculty member.

He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and the author of the novel There There, which was a finalist for the 2019 Pultizer in fiction. Tommy was born and raised in Oakland, California.

THE BUTTERFLY DOESN’T KNOW that we call it so. And yet, we found that house full of records, unaware that one day we would hold that moment in our hands and say miracle. The miracle does not understand its name. Don’t believe me? Go and stand outside, raise your hand, move your arm like a tornado. Watch.

In some poems, the you is a lover, or a very best friend, or both. Sometimes, the you is a reader. In this case, I am talking to those who see the tornado and say storm.

I don’t know what to call you, but maybe you will name yourself. Instead, I will tell you the story of our hands turning to marble, an artist stripping us of the clothes of our era, giving us wings, placing us together, like we’ve always belonged in each other’s arms. Your arm is still up, twirling, waiting. My arm is around your waist, hoping you will notice my breast, not instead of the storm, but as part of it (as a flower is part of the ground) while I notice your body– nothing to claim, nothing to own, but something to receive. I remember how you picked up one record after another, imagined its music. You never heard of Loretta Lynn, but I cut you some slack, found a dusty tea cup and said, Can we live here? In marble, you give that arm twirl everything you’ve got.

And here I am, touching you, and look: There are students taking notes about our positioning as a busy crew encases us in glass.

— By Ashley Inguanta Ashley Inguanta is a writer, artist and educator.

She is the author of three collections: The Way Home, For the Woman Alone and Bomb. Her work has also appeared in publications such as The Rumpus and SmokeLong Quarterly, where she served as art director for five years. Her forthcoming collection The Flower is due out next year with Ampersand Books.

EVERY DAY

By James Hena Every day, I wake up to a picture of you and a light sizzle of eggs in a pan, toast shooting into the air with a golden crisp, and the grease from the bacon popping everywhere. I place these items onto a plate alongside a coffee, light cream, two sugars and an orange juice, no pulp. I walk out of the kitchen leaving a trail of smells, through the hallway filled with plaques and awards with your name engraved: James Hena. I gently push your brown door open; a wind of heat tackles me and an electronic scream enters through my ears, like the slowing of a car with beat-up brake pads.

“Grandad,” I say.

“Oh hah, good morning, Okuwah Ta,” he says.

My Grandad is an old wise man, with long black and white hair flowing down his shoulders, a prickly beard, thick glasses that change to shades when a ray of sunlight hits them, two light brown hearing aids sticking out of his ears, and wrinkles engraved into his face, the type of wrinkles you would see in a dusty picture of an old Native American chief looking a little pissed off. But Grandad wears a smile of pure happiness. He’s dressed in a plaid collared shirt tucked neatly into his Levi jeans, strapped up with a black belt. A gold and silver watch on his wrist and the cleanest Nike shoes you will ever see, plus a white and blue Dallas Cowboys round-brim hat.

“Here Granddad, I brought you your breakfast.”

“Thank you, do you want some?” he says.

“No Granddad, I have mine in the kitchen. Do you want to come eat in the living room with us?”

I ask.

“Nooo, it’s too cold in there, I like the heat in here!” he says with a big smile.

“Okay, I’ll let you eat and watch your old Western. Call me if you need anything.”

“Huh!” he says, confused.

I project my voice a little louder: “Call me if you need anything!”

“Okuwah Ta!” he says before I leave the room.

“Want to go fishing?” he adds, with the biggest manipulative smile.

“Heck yea! I’ll get the stuff ready.”

As I leave the sauna of a room, I close the door a quarter of the way, leaving it ajar, so I can hear my Granddad call for me. I’m excited. Fishing is a big part of our family, and it is very special to go with my Granddad, the centerpiece of our family.

He is the glue that sticks the pieces together. He is looked up to by all of the family, community members, leaders from around the world. He devours knowledge and shares what he has learned with his community, to make each of us stronger and more knowledgeable. He is an Army Veteran; he has traveled the world; he has met many past Presidents of the United States. He was there to witness Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. With many different attributes to this man, he is strong in every one of them.

All the gear is packed and we hit the road. First we stop at Walmart. My Granddad needs his Sunkist soda, which he calls his “orange one,” and a yellow bag of peanut M&M’s. The snack mission complete, we hit the road again. Everywhere my Granddad goes he has a Sunkist. Oh! And napkins, always a stack in his pocket, along with some butterscotch candies in yellow tinsel, a Swiss Army knife, and a fat wallet. In my hands it was more like a hamburger.

After a couple hours of driving and listening to Pow Wow songs, we hit the river. Two poles in the water, nice fresh air, and a quiet, yet not soundless place – it all makes a person think, why go anywhere else? There is only one other place I would rather be and that is the baseball field. However, only if my Granddad was in the stands cheering me on. He comes to every game, no matter the travel and always, always, always, gives me a high

five after the games. Even if I was so mad and slammed the back car door closed, I would see his hand slowly appear from the passenger seat, not looking at me, head turned and waiting patiently for me to give him a little slap.

The rod makes a spinning sound and we start pulling fish out like nobody’s business. Packed into the cooler and placed in the truck bed, we’re ready for the long drive. Back home, I place the fish in the freezer and help my Granddad to bed. I help him take off his shoes and pants, then empty his pockets out onto his bedside dresser. After I’m done tucking him in, I sit on the edge of the bed and watch his Western with him until he gets tired, and when he does, I say, “Goodnight Granddad, I’m going to get ready for bed.”

“Okay, goodnight,” he replies.

A soft and quiet goodnight, a hug and a kiss.

James Hena is a Native American writer from Tesuque Pueblo. “Every Day” is a tribute to his grandad and Henna’s first published essay.

Find him on Instagram @jameshena_2

To read the entire 2019 issue and full Tommy Orange interview, go to www.sfcc.edu/literary-review-issue/2019.

An accompanying exhibit for this year’s issue is on display at SFCC’s Visual Arts gallery through Nov. 21

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YEAH, BITCH Fresh off a national tour with none other than Built to Spill, Albuquerque indie rock/post-punk/ punk-punk/art-rock group Prism Bitch returns to Santa Fe to show the denizens of town why it might be the most important band in the state right now. Prism Bitch gets points on so many fronts. Catchy? Check. Hard-rocking? Check.

Color-coordinated tracksuits? Check. Incredibly fun live show? Double check. See, this is a band to experience, one that brings the energy, the riffs, the kickass keys and so much more. In fact, with all due respect to the wonderful touring act Cherry Glazerr from Los Angeles (who slayed the Railyard last summer), people who don’t get hip to Prism Bitch are really missing out on something special. Catch ’em before they’re huge, we say. (ADV)

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Prism Bitch and Cherry Glazerr: 8 pm Wedensday Oct. 23. $24.50-$26.50.

Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369.

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WORKSHOP THU/24 WRITING FROM REALITY Despite the struggles still ahead, our society plods towards racial equity at an unbeknownst pace, and it’s crucial that narratives which were once suppressed are brought to light and developed with attention. Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, a 20-year journalist, playwright and poet (among other things) leads a workshop to help writers think about and write on race and racism, whether they are crafting with their own perspectives or writing fictional characters from a racial background different from their own.

Budding literary geniuses are invited to bring a brief piece of writing to workshop, and we seriously hope to see some of you submit to the SFR writing contest before Nov. 8. (Cole Rehbein) Writing on Race and Racism: 5:30-7 pm Thursday, Oct. 24. Free. Santa Fe Higher Education Center, 1950 Siringo Road, 428-1725.

SEAN JOHNSON, MESA CREATIVE SOLUTIONS

THEATER THU/24-SAT/26 ANOTHER LITTLE PIECE The Vietnam War was the first war broadcast on television, and we learned first-hand how hellish it was for the soldiers. A little-known perspective that often wasn’t shown on the nightly news: it was hell for women overseas, too, and the New Mexico School for the Arts is producing a play to platform exactly those stories. A Piece of My Heart follows six such women, five nurses and a touring musician, to show the dangers they faced, from drunken, misogynistic soldiers to permanent disabilities from exposure to Agent Orange. This play is heavy and due to content is suitable only for a mature audience, but the retrospective it offers on the war’s legacy is invaluable. (CR) A Piece of My Heart: 7 pm Thursday-Saturday Oct. 24-26. $5-$10.

Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 988-1579

LECTURE MON/28

Boo! Author and folklorist Benjamin Radford gives us the creeps So it’s the time of the year when we’re all more likely to open our minds and hearts to the concept of ghosts and monsters being very real things, and when it comes to New Mexico’s entries into the world of ghostly tales, there might be no better archivist and investigator than author and skeptic Benjamin Radford.

“I’m a skeptic, and that’s not a negative word,” Radford tells SFR. “It’s normal and natural. That’s how we find out about the world, right?”

Radford has written 10 books on ghosts, monsters and folklore, from local haunts like Albuquerque’s Kimo Theater and the Santa Fe courthouse to the dark and horrifying arroyos purportedly stalked by La Llorona herself. This Monday, Radford presents some of his findings and stories during his talk, Ghosts of New Mexico, at the LaFarge branch of the public library.

“In the approach that I take, I’m trying to do two different things,” Radford explains. “I approach from the point of

view of a folklorist looking at the legends, the stories, the rumors, the tall tales— all these stories New Mexico is rich with—but, at the same time, I’m trying to answer the questions ‘Is it real? Did it really happen?’”

Radford says he’s studied stories from around the world, and that while he’s still open to the things that go bump in the night being real, he’s yet to find compelling enough evidence to say for sure. One supposedly haunted house in Buffalo, New York, for example, seemed promising, but turned out to be a case of restless leg syndrome.

Still, Radford’s talk is bound to be fun and enlightening and full of that Samhain spirit. It’s appropriate for kids, too.

(Alex De Vore) GHOSTS OF NEW MEXICO 6-7:30 pm Monday Oct. 28.

Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch, 1730 Llano St., 955-4860

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WED/23 BOOKS/LECTURES CHIHUAHUAN DESERT HISTORY WITH C J ALVEREZ School for Advanced Research 660 Garcia St., 954-7200 SAR’s 2019 Mellon fellow presents new research through an environmental perspective on the importance of the Chihuahuan desert and its population.

Noon-1 pm, free CREATIVITY, SOCIAL IMPACT AND SOFT POWER New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Lord Cultural Resources and the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs present a discussion about New Mexico's status as a cultural capital and how it creates "soft power."

4-6 pm, free DHARMA TALK Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A talk by Sensei Sokaku Kathie Fischer on the Diamond Sutra, which begins with a 15-minute silent meditation; please arrive on time. A donation to the speaker is respectfully invited.

5:20-6:30 pm, free

Mirel Fraga, Flora, a serigraph in six colors. What is a serigraph? Essentially, it’s a screen printing, and a growing movement of print arts out of Oaxaca City, Mexico is proving to be a hotbed of innovation for such techniques. A new exhibit of Oaxacan artists, Grabados Oaxaqueños, opens at Hecho a Mano on Friday; see page 22.

KNOW THE 10 WARNING SIGNS OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE St. John the Baptist Catholic Church 1301 Osage Ave., 983-5034 Learn to differentiate between normal age-related forgetfulness and Alzheimer’s disease indicators and how to care for loved ones who may be experiencing these symptoms.

10-11 am, free

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Do you basically know everything about everything? Put it to good use. Quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free

OPEN HOUSE Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 This event features exhibitions and demonstrations of all types throughout the campus, with open studios and classrooms, a student art show and sale, Pueblo dancing in the Dance Circle, an archery demonstration and a portfolio review with scholarships being awarded to a select number of qualified students.

2-6 pm, free INTRODUCTION TO ZEN Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Everyone is welcome to explore the basics and finer points of Zen meditation, including good posture and finding a comfortable position.

There's also a chance to go over questions and instruction.

5 pm, free

JOB FAIR Santa Maria El Mirador 10 A Van Nu Po, 270-4858 Santa Maria El Mirador has served adults with intellectual disabilities for over 40 years. Learn about their full or part-time shifts in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico. This event aims to attract experienced and entrylevel candidates in a range of positions.

10 am-2 pm, free NEW MEXICO PINBALL MEETUP The Alley 153 Paseo De Peralta Meet people who enjoy pinball and learn more about the hobby. Bring cash or quarters for the machines.

6-11 pm, free

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NOCHE DE ANIMAS. TZINTZUNTZAN Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Metamorfosis Documentation Project presents a documentary that depicts the Feast of the Faithfully Departed in the P’urhépecha community of Tzintzuntzan in Michoacán, Mexico.

2 pm, $6-$12

BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free BOXCAR KARAOKE Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Do we need more people singing Fleetwood Mac? Yes, we do.

10 pm, free BRING YOUR OWN VINYL NIGHT Santa Fe Brewing Company Brakeroom 510 Galisteo St., 780-8648 Bring your favorite records and spin 'em in public. Or, if you're like us and own records but no turntable, maybe finally listen to them, huh?

7 pm, free

FOOD LA MODA VII: FASHION SHOW AND DINNER Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 New works by local fashion designers, plus a prix fixe menu and the chance to dine with the artists.

6:30 pm, $35

The CELEBRATION, Santa Fe’s non-denominational “Sunday Service Different”, is Pleased to Present

Swami Beyondananda, An Evening of Cosmic Comic Entertainment Swami Beyondananda is the comic alter ego of writer, humorist and performer Steve Bhaerman. Come enjoy political satire and healing laughter from this “uncommontator” whose comedy has been called “irreverently uplifting.”

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Experience “The Swami” Live and In Person at the NEA-NM bldg., 2007 Botulph Rd. (enter around back) Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 7–9pm, $20 in advance, $25 at the door Not to be Missed! Seating is limited. For tickets email ken@kenshaw.net or call 505-819-7359 Also available at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4422140

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CLASH TRIBUTE NIGHT The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 A celebration of one of the most significant 1980s postpunk UK bands.

9 pm-2 am, free CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenco and classical Spanish guitar.

7 pm, free CHERRY GLAZERR AND PRISM BITCH Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Rock from Cherry Glazerr with local desert punk-rock openers (see SFR Picks, page 17).

8 pm, $24-$26 DANIEL MURPHY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana and rock.

8 pm, free MATTHEW ANDRAE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rhythmic covers and originals of a folky bent on guitalele.

6 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Jazz duet.

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

7:30 pm, free SMOMID, HYPER LORDS, APPS Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Smomid plays a custom-built instrument that emits sound and light, with punky-rock from the other folks (see Music, page 23).

8-11:30 pm, $10

THEATER CARLOS MEDINA COMEDY AND MUSIC Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Northern New Mexico's favorite home-grown comedian.

8-10 pm, $10

WORKSHOP WIZARD OR WANNABE WORKSHOP La Montañita Co-op 913 W Alameda St., 984-2852 Mary Neighbour demonstrates how authors and self-publishers can vet the professionals they need to edit, design and shepherd their books.

6-8 pm, $20

THU/24 ART OPENINGS BETWEEN TWO SUNS Iconik Coffee Roasters (Lupe) 314 S Guadalupe St., 428-0996 Stephanie Lenchard-Warren presents new paintings.

5-7 pm, free

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SEE ME, HEAR ME: ART & MENTAL HEALTH IN NEW MEXICO CLOSING RECEPTION El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 The last chance to see the exhibition that features the work of artists who identify as living with a mental illness.

This, the seventh annual exhibition of its kind, takes a thematic approach, examining the role of community to those who identify with mental illness. The show expresses the desire to be seen and heard in a society that enforces rigid standards of "normalcy."

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES STAN CRAWFORD: GARLIC PAPERS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 New Mexico garlic farm owner Crawford discusses his struggle against a Chinese garlic importer and the US Dept. of Commerce.

6 pm, free THE RABBINIC IMAGINATION RUNS WILD: AN INTRODUCTION TO MIDRASH St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Midrash is Hebrew for “drawing out” and is a type of literature that flourished from 3rd century Palestine to Europe in the Middle Ages. Renesan Lecturer Michael Nutkiewicz is a professor of Jewish studies at the University of New Mexico and discusses some of them for pure enjoyment and insight.

1-3 pm, $15 TURAHN DORSEY: THE FUTURE OF LEARNING SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Presented in partnership with New Mexico School for the Arts, Dorsey shares his insights and work crafting education revisions for the city of Boston and examines the demand for rapidly changing career skills and what it implies for reimagining learning and embracing innovation in education.

6 pm, $5-$10 FANTASTIC FUNGI PANEL The Screen 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 428-0209 A screening of a documentary about fungi and their ecological significance is followed by a panel discussion by local fungi activists and experts.

7 pm, $8-$11

DANCE MONET'S MOON Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Compañia Chuscales y Mina Fajardo present a flamenco concert inspired by the art of French Impressionist Claude Monet.

7 pm, $25-$30

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Pub trivia with prizes.

7 pm, free

MUSIC BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free DJ RAGGEDY A'S CLASSIC MIXTAPE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig takes over with R&B, rock 'n' roll y más.

8 pm, free DAVID GEIST Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards and Broadway faves.

6:30 pm, free EUREKA SOUND Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 A special edition of Reggae Thursday with a touring band.

10 pm-1:30 am, free JQ WHITCOMB TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Original and classic jazz.

7 pm, free JESUS BAS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

6 pm, free MARIBOU STATE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 English electronic music duo.

7 pm, $15-$18 MARIO FEBRES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free MATT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Singer-songwriter tunes.

7-10 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

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

7:30 pm, free

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THEATER A PIECE OF MY HEART Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 A true drama written by Shirley Lauro of six women who went to Vietnam, five nurses and a country singer.

The play portrays each young woman before, during and after her tour and ends as each leaves a personal token at The Wall in Washington. For mature audiences, due to language and content (see SFR Picks, page 17).

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VOTE EARLY SANTA FE COUNTY 2019 REGULAR LOCAL ELECTION Municipalities: City of Santa Fe (Rank Choice Voting for Councilor Position District 4) School Districts: Santa Fe Public School, Espanola Public School, Moriarty-Edgewood School, and Pojoaque Valley Public School Community College Districts: Santa Fe Community College (Voting for Board Members Only), and Northern New Mexico College Branch Community College (Voting for Ballot Question Only) Soil & Water Conservation Districts: Santa Fe-Pojoaque SWCD, Ciudad SWSD, Edgewood SWSD, and Eldorado Area Water and Sanitation District Early Voting (Absentee In Person): County Clerk’s Office (102 Grant Avenue) from Tuesday, October 8, 2019

through Saturday, November 2, 2019, during regular days and hours of business (Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.). The office is closed Monday, October 14, 2019. The County Clerk’s Office will be open for Voting on Saturday, November 2, 2019, 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m., but not the other Saturdays of Early Voting.

Early Voting Alternate Sites: Saturday, October 19, 2019 through Saturday, November 2, 2019. Hours of voting are from 12:00 noon until 8:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; and from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. on Saturdays.

Your Vote! Your Voice!

SANTA FE COUNTY 2019 REGULAR LOCAL ELECTION DAY Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Municipalities: City of Santa Fe (Rank Choice Voting for Councilor Position District 4) School Districts: Santa Fe Public School, Espanola Public School, Moriarty-Edgewood School, and Pojoaque Valley Public School Community College Districts: Santa Fe Community College (Voting for Board Members Only), and Northern New Mexico College Branch Community College (Voting for Ballot Question Only) Soil & Water Conservation Districts: Santa Fe-Pojoaque SWCD, Ciudad SWSD, Edgewood SWSD, and Eldorado Area Water and Sanitation District

On Election Day qualified voters registered in Santa Fe County may cast their VOTE at any of the 30 Voting Convenience Centers (VCC'S) in Santa Fe County.

Voting Convenience Centers (VCC'S) are located at:

Early Voting Alternate Sites Locations: NEW Abedon Lopez Community Center – 155A Camino De Quintana, Santa Cruz Christian Life Church – 121 Siringo Road, Santa Fe NEW Edgewood Elementary School – 285 Dinkle Road, Edgewood Max Coll Corridor Community Center (new facility) – 16 Avenida Torreon, El Dorado Pojoaque Satellite Office – 5 W. Gutierrez – Ste. 9, Pojoaque Pueblo Plaza Santa Fe County Fair Building – 3229 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe

Voter Registration

By Mail or Online: Ended Tuesday, October 8, 2019 In Person Same Day Voter Registration at the County Clerk's Office: Begins October 9, 2019 and Ends Saturday, November 2, 2019 (Photo ID Required) Absentee Voting: Last Day to Apply to Vote By Mail: November 1, 2019 Regular Local Election Day: November 5, 2019, 7:00 a.m. - 7:00p.m.

For more information, contact the:

505-986-6280 or visit https://www.santafecountynm.gov/clerk

Voter Registration

By Mail or Online: Ended Tuesday, October 8, 2019 In Person Same Day Voter Registration at the County Clerk's Office: Begins October 9, 2019 and Ends Saturday, November 2, 2019 (Photo ID Required) Absentee Voting: Last Day to Apply By Mail: November 1, 2019 For more information, contact the:

505-986-6280 or visit https://www.santafecountynm.gov/clerk

VOTE EARLY SANTA FE COUNTY 2019 REGULAR LOCAL ELECTION Municipalities: City of Santa Fe (Rank Choice Voting for Councilor Position District 4) School Districts: Santa Fe Public School, Espanola Public School, Moriarty-Edgewood School, and Pojoaque Valley Public School Community College Districts: Santa Fe Community College (Voting for Board Members Only), and Northern New Mexico College Branch Community College (Voting for Ballot Question Only) Soil & Water Conservation Districts: Santa Fe-Pojoaque SWCD, Ciudad SWSD, Edgewood SWSD, and Eldorado Area Water and Sanitation District Early Voting (Absentee In Person): County Clerk’s Office (102 Grant Avenue) from Tuesday, October 8, 2019

through Saturday, November 2, 2019, during regular days and hours of business (Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.). The office is closed Monday, October 14, 2019. The County Clerk’s Office will be open for Voting on Saturday, November 2, 2019, 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m., but not the other Saturdays of Early Voting.

Early Voting Alternate Sites: Saturday, October 19, 2019 through Saturday, November 2, 2019. Hours of voting are from 12:00 noon until 8:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; and from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. on Saturdays.

Your Vote! Your Voice!

SANTA FE COUNTY 2019 REGULAR LOCAL ELECTION DAY Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Municipalities: City of Santa Fe (Rank Choice Voting for Councilor Position District 4) School Districts: Santa Fe Public School, Espanola Public School, Moriarty-Edgewood School, and Pojoaque Valley Public School Community College Districts: Santa Fe Community College (Voting for Board Members Only), and Northern New Mexico College Branch Community College (Voting for Ballot Question Only) Soil & Water Conservation Districts: Santa Fe-Pojoaque SWCD, Ciudad SWSD, Edgewood SWSD, and Eldorado Area Water and Sanitation District

On Election Day qualified voters registered in Santa Fe County may cast their VOTE at any of the 30 Voting Convenience Centers (VCC'S) in Santa Fe County.

Voting Convenience Centers (VCC'S) are located at:

Early Voting Alternate Sites Locations: NEW Abedon Lopez Community Center – 155A Camino De Quintana, Santa Cruz Christian Life Church – 121 Siringo Road, Santa Fe NEW Edgewood Elementary School – 285 Dinkle Road, Edgewood Max Coll Corridor Community Center (new facility) – 16 Avenida Torreon, El Dorado Pojoaque Satellite Office – 5 W. Gutierrez – Ste. 9, Pojoaque Pueblo Plaza Santa Fe County Fair Building – 3229 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe

Voter Registration

By Mail or Online: Ended Tuesday, October 8, 2019 In Person Same Day Voter Registration at the County Clerk's Office: Begins October 9, 2019 and Ends Saturday, November 2, 2019 (Photo ID Required) Absentee Voting: Last Day to Apply to Vote By Mail: November 1, 2019 Regular Local Election Day: November 5, 2019, 7:00 a.m. - 7:00p.m.

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Voter Registration

By Mail or Online: Ended Tuesday, October 8, 2019 In Person Same Day Voter Registration at the County Clerk's Office: Begins October 9, 2019 and Ends Saturday, November 2, 2019 (Photo ID Required) Absentee Voting: Last Day to Apply By Mail: November 1, 2019 For more information, contact the:

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THE CALENDAR HOSTAGE The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Forty years ago this fall, the Iran hostage crisis was underway. Back in Wisconsin, Barbara Timm boarded a plane and flew to Tehran, demanding to see the youngest hostage—her 21-year-old son, Kevin. The play is a powerful tribute to the love and nerve of a mother who would not take no for an answer.

7:30 pm, $10-$25 THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 The last play of Quiara Alegría Hudes' Elliot Trilogy, where Elliot tries his hand at journalism and acting and experiences the transformation of his trauma with the help of family.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP PUBLIC WORKSHOP FOR THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLAN Presbyterian Health Park 4801 Beckner Road Transportation has huge impacts on you and your quality of life. Lend your voice to Santa Fe's 2020-2045 Transportation Plan.

5:30-7:30 pm, free THE WORLD OF FUNGI Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 This introductory lecture discusses the range of plantfungal interactions and how they differ from each other.

3-4:30 pm, $10-$15 WRITING ON RACE AND RACISM Higher Education Building 1950 Siringo Road, 428-1725 This workshop by Darryl Wellington and the Alas de Agua Art Collective is for writers to develop material related to their personal experiences (or the experiences of their characters) in a multi-cultural and often racist society.

Participants should bring a short excerpt of their work to read aloud (see SFR Picks, apge 17).

5:30-7 pm, free

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RIMI YANG Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., 954-9902 Imaginative California-based painter unveils new paintings.

5-7 pm, free DIANA P CASEY Good Folk Gallery 141 Lincoln Ave, 983-1660 New works of textile art.

5-7:30 pm, free PHOTO ECLECTIC MEET THE ARTISTS Madame Matisse 1291 San Felipe Ave., 204-7869 A group of Santa Fe photographers with eclectic backgrounds discuss their work on exhibit.

2-3 pm, free RELIQUARIES LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 Post-symbolist painter Michael Roque Collins unveils a new series of paintings inspired by his dreams.

5-7 pm, free FRANCIS AND COMPANY EVOKE Contemporary 550 S Guadalupe St., 995-9902 Patrick McGrath Muñíz exhibits new epic oil paintings (see A&C, page 27).

5-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES CREATIVEMORNINGS: KEEP THE WATER FLOWING New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Coffee, bagels, networking and a talk by Andy Otto, the executive director of the Santa Fe Watershed Association, to discuss the organization’s work to protect and restore the Santa Fe River and its watershed.

9-10 am, free GALLERY CONVERSATIONS WITH ALCOVES 20/20 ARTISTS New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Contemporary artists discuss their work being shown in the museum alcoves.

5:30-6:30 pm, free PAUL SELIG: BEYOND THE KNOWN: REALIZATION The Ark 133 Romero St., 988-3709 Author and spirit channeler Paul Selig leads an interactive talk on the teachings in his latest book.

6-8 pm, free

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GRABADOS OAXAQUEÑOS Hecho a Mano 830 Canyon Road, 916-1341 Six contemporary printmakers from Oaxaca City working in relief printing, lithography and serigraphy.

6-8 pm, free HOMECOMING: ALUMNI EXHIBITION form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 216-1256 This exhibit celebrates 10 years of NMSA by showing the work of visual arts graduates along with instructors and guest artists.

5-7 pm, free

FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience the longestrunning tablao in North America. Reservations required.

6:30 pm, $30 MONET'S MOON Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Compañia Chuscales y Mina Fajardo present a flamenco concert inspired by the art of French Impressionist Claude Monet.

7 pm, $25-$30

EVENTS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CAR SEAT FITTINGS Kohl's 4401 Cerrillos Road Fittings are by appointment only; call 471-3965 to schedule. Three out of four car seats are installed incorrectly.

Trained and certified child passenger safety seat technicians inspect your child’s car seat or booster, and parents and caregivers can receive education on safety seats.

Bring the car seat and, if possible, the child.

8:30-11:30 am, free DIGITAL ARTIFACTS: CLOSING AND PERFORMANCE Art House 231 Delgado St., 995-0231 Five artists working across different digital and physical mediums close their exhibit, plus two performances of Dismantle a World by Dylan McLaughlin, a sound performance embodying the historic and ongoing tension between technology, industry, the land and its people. The performances are at 5:30 and 6:30 pm.

5-7 pm, free GARDEN SPROUTS: PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Listen to a book and participate in interactive nature and garden related activities. This program is designed for children aged 3-5, but all ages are welcome with an adult. When you arrive, please make your way to the Ojos y Manos: Eyes and Hands Garden across the red bridge.

10-11 am, free PLATFORM / REMATRIATE Santa Fe Art Institute 1600 St Michaels Dr, 424-5050 October’s Platform event honors strong Indigenous women leaders who are creating tools that support Indigenous peoples and other women in reclaiming or rematriating ancestral traditions of female leadership. Through art, education and conversation, this event will give space and voice to Indigenous women. Visit sfai.org for more information.

6-9 pm, $10 SIP AND SHOP Sage Mesa Collective 1836 B Cerrillos Road, 428-0486 Enjoy a complimentary beverage while exploring this new store's all New Mexico-made art and artisan goods.

5-8 pm, free ZOE NAUMAN: CLOSING RECEPTION Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta, 470-2582 A closing party for Nauman's exhibit of contemporary photographs.

5-7 pm, free

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So You Want to Build a Light Guitar

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azz and electronic music are two distinct genres that begin and end at two entirely different points, with wildly different conjurations in the modern imagination. For jazz, the imagery that comes to mind might be of coffee shops and seemingly magical drummers keeping time to complicated polyrhythms as guitarists play in odd key signatures and improvise riffs over winding bass lines. For electronic music, dark basement corners in decaying urban sprawls, created by bearded men in black hoodies who toil over complex modular machines made of infinite wires.

Both are skilled, both require a virtuosic understanding of their craft, but this is where surface similarities seemingly reach their terminus.

Enter Nick Demopoulos’ SMOMID (short for String Modeling Midi Device), a project that officially began in 2010, but that started way back when with a deep love of jazz.

“I actually got started with music in a jazz group called Exegesis back in early 2000s,” Demopoulos says.

But what was different, he says, is that they were “incorporating samplers and drum machines, so it became this jazz/ electronic soundscape combination.”

After a time, Demopoulos began playing around with the idea of creating freeform music with electronics.

“I got the idea from a class I took at [Brooklyn-based performance gallery and teaching space] LEMURplex [League of Electronic Musical Urban

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Robots] and started toying with the idea of building an electronic drum kit,” he says.

But when the drum project came to a dead end in 2010, Demopoulos completed a prototype of his first custom-designed electronic instrument, what he calls a light guitar; a MIDI controller (an interface through which digital musical sounds are made) in the general shape of a guitar but that looks more like a weapon from a cyberpunk film than the instrument on which it’s based. Knobs, lights and touchpads are placed with surgical precision, which gives Demopoulos flexibility to create soundscapes with ease from a number of self-built instruments on stage tied in to his custom instrument. In this regard,

Demopoulos is less a musician and more a mad scientist, editing sound designs on the fly and building sonic creations that can surprise even him. It’s beginning to sound more and more like a jazz show, right?

The proof is in the tracks. SMOMID doesn’t rely on a few flashy tricks and a light guitar to create textures for the sake of doing something weird. Rather, the project should be viewed as a series of dualisms, of complex musical arrangements and simple instrumentations, mathematics and tonality. Snare hits are algorithmically manipulated to provide slight variations in tempo and pitch to intone live drums. He treats drum fills similarly, to the point where Demopoulos often doesn’t know where a

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fill will occur in any given song.

“Even though I rehearse, I don’t quite know what I’m going to play when I’m going into a show,” he explains. “Nothing is tracked, everything is being triggered live.”

While there might be some sequencing done in preparation, a SMOMID show begins and ends with improvisation. Which, of course, is a core ethos of jazz; a dedication to the ephemerality of music and capturing moments, rather than a meticulous collection of rehearsals and performances. SMOMID might be an electronic act, but the method by which the music is created is no less organic or natural than any other creative process.

“I think people are hungry for artists that are taking chances,” Demopoulos notes. And while it might be easy to lump electronic music into terms like “dance” or “ambient,” he doesn’t think electronic music is closing in on itself.

“It’s expanding,” he adds. “I think there should be two genres: acoustic music and electronic music.”

So I find myself struggling to understand if SMOMID is high art that I just don’t get, or if it’s something that is much less difficult to grasp—a guy with a cool MIDI controller making interesting music outside of the confines of any single genre. There is no such thing as a single unifying taste in music, and an act like SMOMID might not sit comfortably in any genre. Yet Demopoulos succeeds on his own terms by bridging the gaps between jazz and electronic music. It’s the product of pushing the boundaries of what electronic music can be, while having a reverence for the foundations of contemporary jazz. That, and a custom designed light guitar.

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THE CALENDAR MUSIC AIR AND HAMMERS First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Edmund Connolly, baritone vocalist and Maxine Thevenot on organ and piano present selections from McIntyre, LeClerc, Connolly, Clara Schumann and Bedard.

5:30-6:10 pm, free BUSY Y LOS BIG DEALS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Pop 'n' jazz.

6 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 First-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends.

6 pm, free DMITRI MATHENY Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 Jazz on the flugelhorn.

6 pm, $20-$25 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too. Doug opens, with Bob at 8 pm.

6-10 pm, free GEMMA DERAGON Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Jazz violin and standards from the '30s and '40s.

8-10 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Upper Crust Pizza (Eldorado) 5 Colina Drive, 471-1111 Irish traditional music, folk and more.

5:30 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rock 'n' roll.

9 pm, free JIMMY STADLER La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock, blues and R&B. 8 pm, free JOHN KURZWEG BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll.

8:30 pm, free LORI OTTINO AND ERIK SAWYER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Local folk singer/songwriters on the deck.

5 pm, free MESA HALLOWEEN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 A lineup of electronic artists including Erin E, Bacon, Feathericci and Brian Mayhall to rattle your bones with house and techno in celebration of life, death and costumes.

9 pm, $10-$15

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NEXT 2 THE TRACKS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Outlaw country.

9 pm, $5 RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free STEPHANIE HATFIELD: RAW, ACOUSTIC & DENUDED Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 Singer-songwriter.

6-8 pm, free THE HIGH ALTITUDE BAND AND VONNIE KYLE Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Indie folk rock from Colorado.

8 pm, free THE REAL MATT JONES Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Alt and new country.

5 pm, free THE SANTA FE FREE RADICALS Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Bluesy rock.

8:30 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz.

7:30 pm, free VANILLA POP Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Pop covers from Taos.

10 pm-1:30 am, $10 WATER TOWER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folk and bluegrass.

8 pm, free

SEASON OF THE WITCH BURLESQUE BASH Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 A 21+ burlesque event with headliner Izobel Dossier.

9 pm, $25 THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 The last play of Quiara Alegría Hudes' Elliot Trilogy, where Elliot tries his hand at journalism and acting and experiences the transformation of his trauma with the help of family.

7:30 pm, $15-$25 THEATER OF DEATH: FREAKATORIUM Engine House Theater 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 A new series of original short plays with music and circus sideshow with a theme dedicated to the carnival sideshows of yesteryear. A carnival midway opens an hour before the show for games of chance, freakshows and special treats.

7 pm, $20

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TERRAIN BIENNIAL 2019 Along the sidewalk in front of 609 Calle Leon Artists and residents bring art into the front yard and sidewalk by creating temporary pieces out of clay, soil or chalk as a way of exploring our relationship to the terrain we occupy.

2-5 pm, free WHAT MAKES THE WAVE BREAK? 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700, 257-8417 An exhibition in memorial of Allan Graham, a prolific contemporary New Mexican artist.

5 pm, free

A PIECE OF MY HEART Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 This is a true drama written

by Shirley Lauro of six women who went to Vietnam. The play portrays each young woman before, during and after her tour and ends as each leaves a personal token at The Wall in Washington. For mature audiences, due to language and content (see SFR Picks, page 17).

7 pm, $5-$10 HOSTAGE The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Forty years ago this fall, the Iran hostage crisis was underway. Back in Wisconsin, Barbara Timm boarded a plane and flew to Tehran, demanding to see the youngest hostage—her 21-year-old son, Kevin. The play is a powerful tribute to the love and nerve of a mother who would not take no for an answer.

7:30 pm, $10-$25

WORKSHOP KARMA AND HOPE: VENERABLE AMY MILLER Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 1807 Second Street, Ste. 35 660-7056 Explore ways to move through life most effectively and take control of your future.

Full schedule of weekend workshops with the Ven. Amy Miller available at thubtennorbuling.regfox.com/ vam2019.

7-8:30 pm, $25

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BOOKS/LECTURES HOMECOMING - ART AND EDUCATION PANEL TALK form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 216-1256 A group of arts advocates, educators and artists convene for a panel discussion moderated by Sandy Zane to discuss the purpose and state of arts education.

2-3:30 pm, free

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EVENTS CARLOS GILBERT ELEMENTARY HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL Carlos Gilbert Elementary 300 Griffin St., 467-4700 The carnival includes a haunted house, indoor games, cash and basket raffles, giant outdoor inflatable games, a costume contest with prizes, sweet and savory food, magicians, jugglers, face painting and much more.

Noon-5 pm, $25 EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more.

8 am-4 pm, free ESTATE SALE ARTsmart Community Studio 1201 Parkway Drive, 992-2787 A sale of donated goods to benefit ARTsmart's mission to provide arts education to the youth in our community.

9 am-3 pm, free

COURTESY JAVIER SUAZO

Santa Fe-based writer Douglas Preston was in on the ground floor of an adventure that led to uncovering a city in the jungles of Honduras which had been buried for centuries. A documentary based on those trips and the publication of his bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God premieres as a fundraiser for the School for Advanced Research at the Violet Crown (2 pm Sunday, Oct. 27. $15. 1606 Alcaldesa St., 216-5678). Javier Suazo Mejía is the coordinator for the proyecto arqueológico Ciudad Blanca and secretary of the board of the Kaha Kamasa Foundation, which manages the site and work to protect the surrounding environment. He’s part of a panel that follows the movie. (Julie Ann Grimm) The place that has been referred to as “The Lost City of the Monkey God” is known by another name now.

Can you talk about that?

First of all the monkey god, it’s more kind of a myth and actually it’s kind of a Hollywood myth. Back in the ‘30s an explorer was hired to go to Honduras to find a lost city … but he didn’t find a city at all. He started working and prospecting in the area. But he had to come back to the US with evidence that he tried to find something and so he bought archaeological artifacts from local people and came back with them and the story about seeing a city with a tall statue of a monkey god in its center. This came from his imagination probably. And we think actually it had to do with a King Kong movie that was released during those years. ... The name given to this place by the people is Cuidad Blanca.

What’s the significance of this uncovering for the people of Honduras?

These are very important issues. First of all, it’s some great pride for the nation. Such a wonderful great civilization in that area. … It has meaning for us, and given us hope also. It’s very important for the people to have the consciousness of their cultural heritage and it’s been very widespread. Honduras is going through a very hard situation right now, but the reaction the Cuidad Blanca … is very very positive. We started from zero in this project. We did not know what civilization it was, how long had they been there settling, and it all was a mystery.

It has been four years now since the team came to the site and there is a lot we have advanced. Now, we have a much clearer idea of the timeline of the occupation of the site by the people and we have a better idea of who they were and where they probably came from.

Was the interaction between the government and the American adventurers different for this event than perhaps the way such revelations have been dealt with in the past?

I think this would have not been possible if there would not have been a political decision to make it work. From the first time they came they asked for permission to make exploring, they did not only get permission, they also got a lot of help and the government … There have been probably $5-6 million already invested by the government in making this happen … They have built a headquarters for all the work the scientists have been doing. It has been important to let the people know what we are doing and what has been ... to make it visible to the people. The government is paying for Honduran scientists who are working there: archaeologists, anthropologists, biologists. It’s a very big deal.

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DANCE CONTRA DANCE Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Join the New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society for a contra dance. All dances taught.

7-10:30 pm, $8-$9 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience the National Institute of Flamenco's worldfamous dinner show at the longest-running tablao in North America. Reservations required.

6:30 pm, $30 MONET'S MOON Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Compañia Chuscales y Mina Fajardo present a flamenco concert inspired by the art of French Impressionist Claude Monet.

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JIM KRISTOFIC: MEDICINE WOMAN op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Kristofic, author of Navajos Wear Nikes, reads from his latest book on the first Native American nursing school.

2 pm, free OPERA BREAKFAST SERIES: MANON Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Lecturer Mark Tiarks discusses Massenet’s Manon, scheduled for broadcast at the Lensic later this Saturday at 11 am.

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PLATFORM / ReMatriate OCTOBER 25 / 6-9PM / SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE Curated by Toni Gentilli & Winoka Yepa

SFAI’s October Platform event, ReMatriate, honors the strength of Indigenous women who are leading within their communities and creating opportunities and tools that support Indigenous peoples and other women in reclaiming or rematriating ancestral traditions of female leadership. Through art, education, and conversation, this event will give space and voice to the visibility, representation, and wellness of Indigenous women.

This event is free and open to the public. Suggested donation is $10 at the door. Visit sfai.org for more information and a schedule of events.

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS American Indian Council of Architects & Engineers Human Trafficking Department, First Nations Community HealthSource Clinic Indigenous Design + Planning Institute, University of New Mexico

PERFORMERS Clara Natonabah Natalie Benally

ARTISTS Heidi K. Brandow Mercedes Dorame Tamara Ann Burgh

SPEAKERS Julia Bernal & Reyes DeVore Pueblo Action Alliance

Native Women Lead

Jana Pfeiffer

Pueblo Action Alliance Sovereign Bodies Institute

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Jaclyn Roessel

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Three Sisters Collective

FOOD Itality: Plant Based Wellness

Utah Diné Bikeyah

by Tina Archuleta

Santa Fe Art Institute / 1600 St. Michaels Drive #31 / 505.424.5050

THE CALENDAR OKTOBERFIESTA Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Live music, vendors, food, face painting, a pumpkin carving contest, character artists, giant beer pong, brat eating contests and more. Proceeds benefit local nonprofits.

Noon-5 pm, $5-$15 SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Find pottery, paintings, photography, jewelry, sculpture, furniture, textiles and more from a juried group of local artists. It’s in the Railyard, just north of the Water Tower.

8 am-2 pm, free SPIRITS OF NEW MEXICO'S PAST El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Meet the ghosts of history who lived and died in the Land of Enchantment. Lit by lantern light and campfires, this historic site takes on a family-friendly yet stillkinda-creepy Halloween atmosphere.

5-9 pm, $6-$8 TRAIN CLUB Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 Members of the Santa Fe Model Railroad Club host activities and do demonstrations with train sets.

10 am-noon, free

FILM SEEKING REFUGE SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 A screening of four short documentaries by New Mexico-based Sylvia Johnson about transgender asylum seekers, plastic pollution and wild horses, followed by a discussion.

3 pm, free

FOOD CHEF NATH THAI VEGAN POP-UP BODY of Santa Fe 333 W Cordova Road, 986-0362 An a la carte menu of plantbased favorites, with a second seating at 8 pm.

5:30 pm, free SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 The best place for fresh produce and crafts from local suppliers. Did you know that if you use SNAP benefits at the market, they’ll reimburse your spending 1 to 1 so you can buy more produce? It’s double the food for free!

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC ALTO STREET Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk-pop 'n' bluegrass.

1 pm, free

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AUDIOBUDDHA'S GRAVEYARD GROOVES Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 AudioBuddha serenades the Meow Wolf Learning Center with a Halloween inspired DJ set alongside multiple community murals for participants to paint on. 21+.

6-10 pm, $10-$30 BERT DALTON TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 A mixture of jazz and Latin jazz.

7:30 pm, free BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free BOOMROOTS COLLECTIVE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Reggae meets hip-hop.

9 pm, $5 BUS TAPES Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Fresh 'n' hot rock 'n' folk.

9 pm, free CALI SHAW Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Nu-folk on the deck.

3 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 First-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends.

6 pm, free FELIX Y LOS GATOS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Zydeco-Tejano blues.

10 pm-1:30 am, free HELLA BELLA! Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 New Mexico's favorite drag rock cover band.

8 pm, free JIMMY STADLER La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock, blues and R&B imported from Taos.

8 pm, free KEYS N KRATES Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Bass-centric, sample-driven electronic music.

9 pm, $18-$22 MADRID'S HALLOWEEN PARTY WITH FELIX Y LOS GATOS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Halloween dance party and costume contest with live music.

8 pm, $10 MICHAEL GARFIELD Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Psychedelic folk rock.

8-10 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 RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free SAVOR Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Cuban street music.

5 pm, free SENATORS WITH REBEKAH ROLLAND Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Desert folk.

8 pm, free STELLA TROIS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Improvisational jazz.

6 pm, free SUSAN GABRIEL Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Singer/songwriter on multiple instruments including lute, ukulele and percussion.

7-9 pm, free THE SANTA FE REVUE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana 'n' rock 'n' roll.

8:30 pm, free VAIVÉN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazz and flamenco with Calvin Hazen (guitar), Mark Clark (drums) and Jon Gagan (bass).

7:30 pm, free

OPERA SWEET POTATO KICKS THE SUN Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 This opera by composer Augusta Read Thomas and librettist Leslie DuntonDowner follows the galactic mishaps caused by the title character, Sweet Potato, and a journey to set things back on course (see our theater colum Acting Out at sfreporter.com).

6 pm, $20

THEATER A PIECE OF MY HEART Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 This is a true drama written by Shirley Lauro of six women who went to Vietnam. The play portrays each young woman before, during and after her tour and ends as each leaves a personal token at The Wall in Washington. For mature audiences, due to language and content (see SFR Picks, page 17).

7 pm, $5-$10

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Patrick McGrath Muñiz processes his reality with dense and evocative worlds

Artes Plásticas y Diseño in San Juan. By 2005, during his graduate years at Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, he took a neo-colonial turn, exploring colonial themes paired with pop consumerism. He also began to include the iconic imagery of saints, though while these are often meant to foster feelings of hope and light, Muñiz believes they come with a lot of baggage. He doesn’t use the Canon to inspire good feelings; he displays them surrounded by intangible concepts like ignorance alongside more concrete topics such as hopeless children, refugees and people taking selfies. And though Muñiz says he doesn’t identify as a political artist, his work almost exclusively deals with political issues.

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He uses his practice to process what is happening in the world around him. Muñiz tells SFR he is skeptical of art as an agent of change, but it seems impossible that the bulk of his pieces aren’t or won’t be starting some serious conversations. Take “The Disembarkment,” a piece from 2019 that finds a veritable who’s-who of colonizers greeting a procession of Indigenous people on a seashore. A bulldozer looms in the background as Teddy Roosevelt, astride a white horse, American flag in hand, joins with an armed modern-day soldier, Christopher Columbus, a selfie-taking child in a Mickey Mouse mask and others; jaguars loom, nearly out of frame, and a rainbow splashes across the background in stark contrast to the violent undertones

COURTESY EVOKE CONTEMPORARY

read somewhere that the average person spends roughly five seconds looking at a piece of art in galleries and museums. The Louvre, for example, reports that the average time visitors spend looking at DaVinci’s “Mona Lisa” clocks in at a meager 15 seconds, and that’s generally agreed to be one of the most famous artworks on the planet. But if you spend only five seconds or even five minutes with a piece by Patrick McGrath Muñiz, you’ll be selling yourself short.

The more you stand with his work, the more you see. And the more you see, the more you start to pick up on Muñiz’s deep dive into current events, social and political situations and his own personal experiences.

Muñiz is originally from Puerto Rico. Growing up on an island, he could actually see the visual evidence of climate change firsthand. He saw the waterline rising, experienced hurricanes, both in Puerto Rico and his current home of Houston, Texas; he felt the loss of more than one home and his studio, and he pulls from these experiences for his work.

Simultaneously, he approaches issues, such as the border crisis and the American fast food epidemic, with caution, using their imagery in an act of empathy and a tool for processing.

Muñiz’s early work leaned primarily toward the figurative during his time as an “The Disembarkment” is indicative of Patrick McGrath Muñiz’s densely-populated style. undergraduate at Escuela de

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of the human subjects. There is much to process, and though its intent seems clear, the piece is dense with symbolism both subtle and not.

And that’s just one of many. Much of his newer work follows this trend of density.

His art, he says, is a mindful process meant to induce questions. That, he believes, is a pivotal role for any artist; Muñiz wants to participate in the conversation while acknowledging his limitations, knowing he can come from a place of empathy. This includes humor, though Muniz says the comedy was more prevalent in the past.

But now? “The joke,” he says, “isn’t funny anymore.”

Still, he clings to optimism. In his artist’s statement, Muñiz writes, “In June, 2018, my son Francis was born. Perhaps it is human nature to seek light in the darkness, to hold on to hope, to evolve and aspire to become an instrument for positive change by starting a constructive dialogue.”

Perhaps he is trying to convince himself as much as he is the viewer. We often create factious and artificial constructs. An artist that happens to be female will always be known as a “woman artist.”

People of color experience similar constraints. As such, defining Muñiz as a political artist is almost like backing him into a corner and giving the viewer a preconceived notion. I urge you to experience this show with openness. Muñiz’s emotional intelligence is balanced by a superior artistic ability and a style that, while reminiscent of the old masters, is undoubtedly contemporary.

PATRICK MCGRATH MUÑIZ: FRANCIS & COMPANY: 5 pm Friday Oct. 25. Free. EVOKE Contemporary, 550 S Guadalupe St., 995-9902

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HOSTAGE The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 A play about Barbara Timm, a Wisconsin mother whose son was the youngest hostage in the Iran hostage crisis.

7:30 pm, $10-$25 THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 The last play of Quiara Alegría Hudes' Elliot Trilogy, where Elliot tries his hand at journalism and acting and experiences the transformation of his trauma with the help of family.

7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE MET LIVE IN HD: MANON Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 A live-streamed performance of Massenet's sensual score.

11 am, $15-$28 THEATER OF DEATH: FREAKATORIUM Engine House Theater 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 A new series of original short plays with music and circus sideshow themed like the carnival sideshows of yesteryear.

A carnival midway opens an hour before the show for games of chance, freakshows and special treats.

7 pm, $20

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BIRD WALK Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve 27283 W Frontage Road, La Cienega, 471-9103 Spend a morning in the unique wetland habitat and learn about the diversity of birds from Rocky Tucker, volunteer bird guide.

8-10 am, free CNC SHAPER WORKSHOP MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road, 819-3502 This course introduces you to the basic principles of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Machining (CAM) while using the CNC Shaper tool. No prior experience necessary.

12:30-3:30 pm, $80 COTTONWOOD CELEBRATION Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve 27283 W Frontage Road, La Cienega, 471-9103 From 1-3 pm, preserve education staff will be on site with fun art and science activities for all ages. This is the last open weekend for the preserve this year.w 1-3 pm, free FREE FAFSA RODEO Higher Education Building 1950 Siringo Road, 428-1725 This event is an opportunity for Santa Fe high schools to compete to see which school can increase their FAFSA completion numbers the most. Free food and drinks provided by Dion’s Pizza and Coca-Cola Bottling Company.

Students and parents can register for the event at sfcc.edu/fafsa-rodeo/.

10 am-2 pm, free

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GARDENING IN DESERT SOILS NMSU County Extension 3229 Rodeo Road, 471-4711 Learn how to plan and implement soil amending practices on your property. Bring a soil sample if you wish. Offered by the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners.

9-11 am, free KARMA AND HOPE: VENERABLE AMY MILLER Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 1807 Second Street, Ste. 35, 660-7056 Explore ways to move through life most effectively and take control of your future. A full schedule of events with Ven. Amy Miller available at thubtennorbuling.regfox.com/ vam2019.

10 am and 2 pm, $25

SUN/27 BOOKS/LECTURES THREE POETS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Kristin Berger, Jean Fogel Zee and Deborah Casillas read from their work.

7-8:30 pm, free MEDITATION AND MODERN BUDDHISM Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 How to develop pure, unconditional love by meditating on Buddha’s surprising and practical wisdom. Sponsored by the Kadampa Meditation Center New Mexico.

10:30 am-noon, $10 THE OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES AND POLITICS OF ACHIEVING A “GOOD DEATH” Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The final lecture in the Aging in Place series, Barak Wolff, former New Mexico Department of Health division director, speaks on end-of-life options and the issues around dying a "good death."

11 am, free

DANCE MONET'S MOON Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Compañia Chuscales y Mina Fajardo present a flamenco concert inspired by the art of French Impressionist Monet.

7 pm, $25-$30

EVENTS 3RD ANNUAL PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 Enjoy live music, all of Iconik's menu and special s'mores from The S'more Pit while crafting the perfect jack-olantern. Prizes to be awarded for best adult and best children's pumpkin.

2-5 pm, free

ALL HALLOWS LABYRINTH WALK Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road, 982-3373 The act of labyrinth-walking is supposed to offer a sort of insight, but we'd like to believe this Hallow's Eve-themed walk crosses a different kind of veil.

5:30 pm, free DIA DE LOS MUERTOS CELEBRATION New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Activities include making traditional decorations and sampling traditional Day of the Dead treats. Listen to traditional New Mexican music by Rob Martinez at 2 and 3 pm and watch Los Niños dance at 1:30 and 2:30 pm.

1-4 pm, free EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more from around the corner and around the world.

10 am-4 pm, free ESPANOLA HUMANE FIDO COSTUME CONTEST La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Express your dog’s Halloween spirit (or come enjoy other people’s dogs) and benefit Espanola Humane. La Fonda’s chefs provide a dessert buffet for all to enjoy. Register online at espanolahumane.org/ fido-costume-contest.

2 pm, $15-$25 GEEKS WHO DRINK Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 983-0134 Pub trivia with prizes.

7 pm, free MEDITATION CIRCLE El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, 982-1931 All abilities welcome! Bring a blanket or cushion and start your Sunday with some breathing. On the event lawn across from the pool.

9-10 am, free NEW MOON CEREMONY Santa Fe Community Yoga Center 826 Camino de Monte Rey, 820-9363 Activities include calling in the four directions, asking guides and ancestors for insight, chanting and drumming, a guided meditation and more.

Please bring a journal and pen, comfortable clothing and anything special or sacred you'd like to add to the communal altar.

6-7:30 pm, $10 O2 OPEN MIC Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Use the mic for whatever art you want, plus 2-for-1 oxygen treatments.

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Bowling and food go together better at The Alley

BY ZIBBY WILDER a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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ack in the day, a group of friends and I would spend every Friday night at Sunset Bowl, a rambling 50-year-old Seattle bowling alley. Located in Ballard, at that time a damp neighborhood of hard-drinking fishermen, we went mainly for the cheap drinks and karaoke.

In a smoky little tiki bar behind the lanes, Karaoke Steve would laugh quietly as we belted out our best (which is not saying much) versions of our favorite tunes. Before settling in to the bar we’d usually play a few frames and try to put down some snacks on which to rest our many, many anticipated vodka gimlets.

As one Yelp-er put it, “Nowhere else can you truly enjoy a basket of greasy, yet crispy, fries and pile of goopy nachos than at Sunset Bowl while throwing down a few frames. The residual grease from the fries also goes well with sticking your fingers into Sunset’s balls. I’m convinced that this actually helps your game.”

While I agree some good bowling alley food can go a long way toward upping one’s game, the thought of eating, then sticking your fingers in dirty holes, then eating again (or touching your face, or someone else’s hand, or a karaoke microphone, or … anything) sends shivers up me timbers.

I was sad when, in 2010, Sunset Bowl was razed to make way for high-rise condos, but I wasn’t sad to lose the image of bowling with my fingers inserted into 50-plus years of congealed fry grease.

“The Perfect Game” ($11), a decidedly more grown combination of Tumbleroot plata agave with orange liqueur and fresh lime. There’s also a small, but decent, selection of draft beers (available in 16 and 20 ounce pours) from local breweries including Bosque, Santa Fe Brewing, Marble and La Cumbre.

The food is all grown-up, too. Chef Ever Paz and his wife Anna closed the window to their popular El Sabor Tapas y Masss food truck to focus solely on operating El Sabor at The Alley. The small kitchen pumps out a variety of decidedly non-bowling alley-esque dishes, from salads and sandwiches to tacos and full entrees. I was happy to see a menu of real food which did not ZIBBY WILDER

Sticky Fingers

Thankfully The Alley (DeVargas Center, 153 Paseo de Peralta, 557-6789) is a grown-up version of the Sunset Bowl, a clean, airy and uncluttered space that eases my mental connection between bowling alleys and decades of grime. It also has bocce, pool, darts and shuffleboard— even a few arcade games and pinball machines tucked into a back corner.

The bar at The Alley (called the Bocce Bar) sits open in the middle of the establishment, fringed by tables and TVs. Many of the signature cocktails include spirits from local distillery Tumbleroot and are made with fresh juices and exotic liqueurs.

A step up from my old standard of $3 vodka gimlets or crappy shots of tequila was

FOOD

conjure up images of greasy ball holes so, after a few frames, I washed my hands and set to the game of eating.

The first dish I tried was the alcachofas ($11), grilled artichoke hearts with Kalamata olives, pico de gallo and a hefty dusting of Parmesan cheese. Artichokes are my favorite food and I liked this take on them.

They were nicely cooked so I could use a knife and fork (not fingers!) to cut through them. The salty olives and cheese added a nice edge to the sweet artichoke and spicy pico de gallo.

The patatas bravas ($9) with spicy garlic sriracha were also fork-able, the sauce super spicy and the potatoes nice and moist. These went really well with a crispy, creamy aguacate ($11), a flash-fried avocado filled with pico de gallo and topped with a generous amount of tangy lime yogurt sauce.

Not forkable, but also not conjuring up images of greasy fingers, were the curry chicken salad ($11.50) and crispy avocado panini ($10.50). The salad contained a generous amount of chopped, grilled chicken breast in a casual curry aioli made exciting with the crunch of earthy green onions and sweet red grapes. Served with tortilla chips, you have to get your fingers dirty for this one. The panini, filled with an entire flash-fried avocado and topped with provolone, lettuce, tomato, and chipotle aioli, requires getting both your hands dirty. This was a finger-licker for sure. The soft hoagie roll had a hard time holding its contents—the tomatoes slipped on the aioli, the avocado slipped on the bread (as avocado is wont to do). It was a delicious mess to try and eat while sitting at a bowling lane. I ended up rolling it in a paper napkin to keep it together and my hands somewhat out of the game.

This is most definitely not typical bowling alley food, nor is this a typical bowling alley. Just as with the games, there’s something everyone will enjoy, even if you might have to get your fingers a little dirty.

Just, please, for the rest of us, wash them before you pick up a bowling ball.

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EL MERCADO - Arts & Culture Market

Santa Fe's premier market!

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El Día de Los Muertos Friday, November 1 On November 1st, when the veil that separates our world from the next world is particularly thin, we invite you to our special Day of the Dead events and book launch.

The community is invited to attend the opening of Tokyo-Fe Wasabi Groove from 5-7pm. Anri Tsutsumi’s contemporary work is a joyful jumble of Eastern and Western influences.

Award-winning travel and culture journalist Judith Fein will speak about her exciting and much-acclaimed new book, How To Communicate With The Dead: and How Cultures Do It Around The World, from 7-9pm.

Experience El Mu Museo!

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EL MUSEO’S WINTER MARKET

Every weekend – October 1, 2016 to May 28, 2017; Saturday 8-3PM; Sunday 9-4PM; Art, Antiques, Jewelry, Books, Textiles, Furniture – More than 50 vendors

THEATER & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

MING EVENTS • The Tempest – Upstart Crows of Santa Fe January 20-22, 27-29

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PAN@MIMOSA Cafe Mimosa 513 Camino Marquez, 365-2112 A 21+ dance party for LGBTQI+ folks.

6-11 pm, $5 PUMPKIN PAINTING Sage Mesa Collective 1836 B Cerrillos Road, 428-0486 Paint a pumpkin or gourd of your choice at this family-friendly event.

1-3 pm, $5 RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Meet a wide variety of New Mexico’s artists and craftspeople and get pottery, painting, jewelry, sculpture, fiber arts, photography, handblown glass, artisanal teas and body products right from the source.

10 am-4 pm, free

FILM GOLDA'S BALCONY The Screen 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 428-0209 The Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival announces the opening of its 10th season with this film, in which Tovah Feldshuh recreates her award-winning Broadway performance as Golda Meir in this final masterpiece by William Gibson.

4 pm, $10-$18 THE BLESSING IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 A screening of the awardwinning film about a Navajo coal miner and his experiences as a father.

Museum admission is free for NM residents on Sunday.

2 pm, $5-$10 THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD Violet Crown Cinema, 1606 Alcaldesa St., 216-5678 Santa Fe local Douglas Preston lead a team of researchers and Indigenous community members into the Honduran rain forest to discover a lost precontact metropolis (see 3Qs, page 25).

2 pm, $15

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AN AFTERNOON WITH JOHN MCCUTCHEON Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 A Grammy-nominated folk singer, storyteller, activist and author performs from his three albums.

3 pm, $12-$35 CRAWFISH BOYZ Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 New Orleans-flavored jazz.

11:30 am, free JONO MANSON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana.

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KEY FRANCES BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Blues on the deck.

3 pm, free MATTHEW ANDRAE La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rhythmic covers and originals of a folky bent on guitalele.

6 pm, free NEXT 2 THE TRACKS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Outlaw country.

8 pm, free VANISHING WAKE First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Music of Hovhaness, Ravel and a recent quartet by Thomas Adès, featuring David Felberg and Ruxandra Marquardt, violin; Alice Norris, viola; Sally Guenther, cello; and Pamela Epple, oboe.

3 pm, $10-$40

THEATER HOSTAGE The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Forty years ago this fall, the Iran hostage crisis was underway. Back in Wisconsin, Barbara Timm defied the US government, boarded a plane and flew to Tehran, demanding to see the youngest hostage—her 21-year-old son, Kevin. The play is a powerful tribute to the love and nerve of a mother who would not take no for an answer.

3 pm, $10-$25 THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 The last play of Quiara Alegría Hudes' Elliot Trilogy, where Elliot tries his hand at journalism and acting and experiences the transformation of his trauma with the help of family.

2 pm, $15-$25 THEATER OF DEATH: FREAKATORIUM Engine House Theater 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 A new series of original short plays with music and circus sideshow themed like the carnival sideshows of yesteryear.

A carnival midway opens an hour before the show for games of chance, freakshows and special treats.

2 pm, $20

WORKSHOP KARMA AND HOPE: VENERABLE AMY MILLER Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 1807 Second Street, Ste. 35 660-7056 Explore ways to move through life most effectively and take control of your future. See the full schedule of events with the Ven. Amy Miller at thubtennorbuling.regfox.com/ vam2019.

10 am and 2 pm, $25

MON/28 BOOKS/LECTURES THE CAPTIVATING STORY OF MARIA ROSA VILLALPANDO SALE DIT LAJOIE Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Francis Levin, the former director of the New Mexico History Museum, discusses the story of a woman caught up in a system of imperialism.

6 pm, $15 GHOSTS OF NEW MEXICO Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Folklorist and researcher Benjamin Radford describes his first-hand investigations into some of New Mexico’s most famous and bizarre ghosts (see SFR Picks, page 17).

6-7:30 pm, free WEEKLY STORY TIME Bee Hive Kid's Books 328 Montezuma Ave, 780-8051 Join the bookstore for songs, stories and community.

10:30-11 am, free

DANCE MONDAY NIGHT SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Arrive at 7 for a lesson if needed. Singles and couples welcome.

7 pm, $3-$8

EVENTS ART WALKING TOUR New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5063 An hour-long tour highlights the art and architectural history of downtown Santa Fe. Children 18 and under are free.

10 am, $10 GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station, Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Pub trivia with prizes.

7 pm, free IT'S TIME FOR A ROAD TRIP Montezuma Lodge 431 Paseo de Peralta, 670-3068 For this meeting of The Transition Network, member Pat Wetzel speaks about a road trip that is leading to a film series aimed at helping people with cancer. Women 50 and up welcome.

5:45-7:30 pm, $5 SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group for occasional guest speakers, discussing your concerns, and group activism.

Newcomers are always welcome, so go fight the good fight.

7 pm, free

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THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 471-0997 The barbershop chorus is looking for people who can carry a tune; join in on any of the four-part harmony parts. For more information, call Marv (699-6922) or Bill (424-9042).

6:30 pm, free

MARK WARREN, WYATT EARP: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 After 63 years of research, author and Western historian Warren discusses the little-known aspects of Earp's personality.

6 pm, free

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ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Put on your best tango shoes and join in (or just watch).

7:30 pm, $5

ALEX MARYOL Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Bluesy rock.

6 pm, free CASEY ANDERSEN AND MOHIT DUBEY Dinner for Two 106 N Guadalupe St., 820-2075 Classical and jazz guitar.

6 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too.

6:30 pm, free TOM WILLIAMS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country swing.

7:30 pm, free

THEATER A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 9881234 A live-streamed performance of Shakespeare's classic comedy from the National Theatre in London.

7 pm, $19-$22

WORKSHOP LA TIERRA TOASTMASTERS Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road Discover where one can advance their public speaking skills in a lively and rewarding group. Guests are always welcome. latierra.toastmastersclubs.org Noon-1 pm, free

TUE/29 BOOKS/LECTURES HENRY SHUKMAN: ONE BLADE OF GRASS Garcia Street Books 376 Garcia St., 986-0151 Shukman's book tells the story of how a Zen meditation practice gave him a context for integrating a sudden spiritual awakening into his life, and how his depression and anxiety were gradually healed through this practice.

6 pm, free

DANCE

EVENTS ANDREA ROMERO RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN KICKOFF Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Special speakers, food and a cash bar help Romero raise funds to start her campaign.

5:30-7 pm, free BICENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE BÁB Santa Fe Women's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail Two hundred years ago, a man was born who would later call himself "The Gate.”

He was the gate for a new religion, the Bahá'i Faith, which professes the unity of God, religion and all humankind. The Bahá'is of Santa Fe celebrate the bicentenary of his birth with information about his life, devotions, a Persian dinner, music and art.

5 pm, free DIA DE LOS MUERTOS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Dia de los Muertos is a long-standing Mexican tradition and time of remembrance for family members and loved ones who have passed. Learn more about this tradition and participate in family-friendly activities on the Plaza from 4-6 pm, followed by a free screening of Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride at The Lensic at 6:30 pm. Reserve movie tickets in advance online at lensic.org/events/ dia-del-los-muertos/.

4 pm, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard, Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Find pottery, paintings, photography, jewelry, sculpture, furniture, textiles and more from a juried group of local artists. It's in the Railyard, just north of the Water Tower.

8 am-2 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.

Newcomers are always welcome.

9 am, free

WEIRD SCIENCE Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 Wear your favorite costume for science tricks and treats in the garden, music and more.

5-7:30 pm, $3-$5

FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 150 providers of fresh produce and crafts, all made right here in Northern New Mexico.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards 'n' jazz on piano.

6:30 pm, free BENNY BASSETT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Acoustic rock straight outta Albuquerque.

8 pm, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Sign up to sing or play if you desire, but be forewarned— this ain't amateur hour.

8 pm, $5 MYRIE AND PETER Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 A mix of blues, R&B and soul.

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

6 pm, free SPAFFORD Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Alternative, improvisational rock.

7 pm, $20 TOM WILLIAMS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country swing.

7:30 pm, free

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Writing Contest

VINTAGE VINYL NITE The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 For 11 years and counting, every Tuesday nite is Vintage Vinyl Nite at the Matador.

DJ Prairiedog and DJ Mama Goose spin the best in garage, surf, country and rockabilly till the wee hours.

9 pm, free

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The Darkest Timeline

Something has shifted, dilating the time-space continuum.

We don’t know when, we’re not sure how, but this is the darkest timeline. Give us your best short stories on time travel, nonlinear loopholes, sci-fi, complexity, absurdity and the apocalypse—or whatever that theme means to you.

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Climate of Change

How have the places and patterns of your life shifted before your eyes? Beneath your feet? Personal essays should explore topics related to internal, external and planetary changes.

• Winners will be published in the Santa Fe Reporter on Nov. 27 and Dec. 6.

• Entries must be made online beginning Oct. 4 and before 11:59 pm on Nov. 8. A $10 fee per entry applies.

• Entries should not exceed 1,800 words, must be submitted digitally and previously unpublished. Paid contributors to SFR in the last year are not eligible.

• Writers must submit their name, physical address, email address, phone number and the submission title in the online form at www.sfreporter. com/contest. No cover letter, and no author name on the submission itself.

Manual submissions may be delivered to 132 E Marcy Street with a check or cash for entry fee.

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WORKSHOP KARMA AND HOPE: VENERABLE AMY MILLER Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 1807 Second Street Ste. 35, 660-7056 Learn how to use life's dissatisfactions to fuel dismantling the safety net of limited thinking and to reassemble a more positive mindset. See the full schedule of events with Ven. Amy Miller at thubtennorbuling.regfox.com/ vam2019.

7-8:30 pm, $25

R.A.P COMMUNITY POETRY CLASS Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St., 316-3596 Railyard Park Conservancy, Railyard Art Project and Elizabeth Jacobson present the final session in an eight-week series to help you blossom into the poet you were meant to be. Bring a notebook.

5:30 pm, free

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Los Comanches at Ranchos de Taos on New Years Day, 2019, part of the Museum of Int’l Folk Art’s exhibit Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico.

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Scott Johnson: Fissure Through Feb. 2, 2020.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Contemporary Voices: Ken Price. Through Oct. 23.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Judy Chicago: the Birth Project from New Mexico Collections. Through Nov. 10.

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Robyn Tsinnajinnie and Austin Big Crow: The Holy Trinity. Through Oct. 31.

Wayne Nez Gaussoin: Adobobot. Through Nov. 30. Reconciliation. Through Jan. 19. Heidi K Brandow: Unit of Measure. Through Jan. 31. Sámi Intervention/ Dáidda Gázada. Through Feb. 16.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 632 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 Global Warming is REAL. Through Oct. 30.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Beyond Standing Rock: The Past, Present, and Future of the Water Protectors.

Through Oct. 27.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe.

Through Oct. 27. Gallery of Conscience: Community Through Making from Peru to New Mexico.

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Paul Pletka: Converging Faiths in the New World.

Through Oct. 20 NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Working on the Railroad.

Through 2021.

The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur. Through Feb. 21.

Atomic Histories. Through Feb. 28. We the Rosies: Women at Work.

Through March 1.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Alcoves 2020 #1 #2.

Through August 2020.

Social and Sublime. Through Nov. 17. Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist.

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Closed for renovations.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 Di Wae Powa.

EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Living history. Spirits of New Mexico’s Past, Halloween event Oct. 26.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Human Nature: Explorations in Bronze.

Through May 10, 2020.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera.

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

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Ah, yes—yet another sequel that amounts to little more than a semi-manipulative jab at nostalgia— this is Zombieland: Double Tap, a continuation of the 2009 Jesse Eisenberg/Woody Harrelson/ Emma Stone/Abigail Breslin romp that found disparate post-apocalypse survivors getting by in a world full of zombies.

The genre is overloaded, no question, but director Ruben Fleischer’s take back then as today has been to embrace a video game aesthetic for the action scenes and a sort of teen comedy feel for the downtimes. It worked the first time out as silly fun, but now it just feels tired and irritating.

Anyway, we catch up with Columbus (Eisenberg), Wichita (Stone), Tallahassee (Harrelson) and Little Rock (Breslin)—so named for their towns of origin—10 years after the events of the first Zombieland. They’ve since moved into the White House, settled into some degree of normal and all is supposed to be well. When Columbus proposes to Wichita, however, she and Little Rock take off, leaving room for newcomers Madison (Zoey Deutch), a valley girl type with a nut allergy, and Berkeley (Avan Jogia), an underdeveloped hippie about whom weed and

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patchouli jokes are made, to step into shallow roles that don’t matter. Ugh. Meanwhile, there’s a new kind of zombie on the loose (they call it the T-800 because Terminator and because pop culture), but with an assist from a commune living in a skyscraper, an Elvisobsessed hotel proprietor named Nevada (Rosario Dawson) and a shockingly familiar pair of hunters named Albuquerque and Flagstaff (Luke Wilson and Thomas Middleditch), our heroes might just have a shot at killing off the new undead. Or most of them. OK, some of them.

Eisenberg and Harrelson’s chemistry remains mostly intact, though Woody does much of the heavy lifting while young Jesse does his slightly-more-dimensional, nervous Michael Cera thing. Stone and Breslin may as well not be in the film outside of serving as plot devices, and the new characters just plain aren’t funny or interesting in any way.

But Zombieland isn’t about cinematic excellence, it’s about violence and gore and

ridiculous fight scenes that are admittedly quite fun. One particular showdown in an Elvis-themed bar brings both thrills and laughs, but it does represent the high point. Elsewhere, we get a steady stream of regurgitated previous events and, chillingly in 2019, a joke about Tallahassee’s supposed Indigenous lineage that is problematic at best and racist at worst; we’d have thought Harrelson would be better than that.

And so, Zombieland: Double Tap becomes about escapism, though fans looking to recapture the magic of the first film will surely feel slighted. Everything is less funny and less original. Oh, Emma Stone—you’re honestly too good for this shit.

ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP Directed by Fleischer With Eisenberg, Harrelson, Stone and Breslin Regal 14, Violet Crown, R, 99 min.

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EL CAMINO: A BREAKING BAD MOVIE

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Honestly, it’s not like the world needed a Breaking Bad movie, but this being a world of reboots and additions, retreads, hot takes and reimagining, why the hell not pile on with one of the most beloved stories in TV history—but this time in movie form?

When last we saw Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), Walt had taken down a white supremacist compound with a remote controlled light machine gun and Jesse had driven off into the sunset in an El Camino (Hey! That’s the name of the movie!). Jesse had been kidnapped by the ever-horrifying Todd (Jesse Plemmons), a child murderer and nephew to the white supremacist bigwig known as Uncle Jack, and forced to cook meth the Heisenberg way while living in a cage, and we pick up moments after his escape. With his newfound freedom, Jesse decides to tie up loose ends, interact with a few fan fave characters like Skinny Pete and Badger and Joe the junkyard guy, and his overall plans are to get out of town, but not before he sows and reaps that Pinkman brand of violence wherein things just kind of happen to him rather than him

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having a hand in his own fate.

El Camino feels like an extended episode of the show, but one of those bottle episodes that focuses too much on plot devices and wrapping things up than it does on what we really want to see. This is slow and methodical, though with very little that actually happens. El Camino is

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Aaron Paul’s movie, and the giddy feeling that comes with the return of Jesse Pinkman wears off awful fast. We phase between the past and the present, little scenes that set up motivations and exposition, and then we reach the payoff in the present wherein the information in the flashback shows us why Jesse knows where

Stuff just seems to happen to our old friend Jesse Pinkman.

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Todd lives, why he still feels a weird allegiance to Mr. White and why he’s fixing to stick it to this one evil welder guy—yeah, welder guy.

Everything else is sheer fan service, little nods to elements from the show that anyone who hasn’t seen Breaking Bad wouldn’t understand or care about, and this begins to feel silly. OK, yeah, we recognize that one van, we still hate Todd, we still wonder if Jesse’s parents care about him anymore, but taking a major chance to add a deeper ending and then squandering it on a nonstop cavalcade of slow burn scenes and “remember when…?” moments seems beneath creator, writer and director Vince Gilligan; don’t hold your breath for a bunch of Walt scenes, either, nor do we find out what happens with Aunt Marie, Skylar, Walt Jr. or anyone else we grew to love.

Uncle Hank is super dead—it would have been interesting to see how that shook out.

But of course, the subtitle just so happens to be A Breaking Bad Movie. “A.” As in, singular, but it’s implied there could be more. Will we see more Netflix-produced movies in the saga?

Is Skinny Peter: Another Breaking Bad Movie on the way? How about Pontiac Aztec: Yet Another Effing Breaking Bad Movie? Who can say, but as Netflix enters the upcoming streaming wars and loses so much of its content to the looming Disney service, one might easily CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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People either love or hate Joker, there doesn’t seem to be much of an in-between.

assume that if El Camino makes a few bucks or earns a few new subscribers, that they’ll keep it going. After all, Better Call Saul is wrapping soon, and Gilligan is gonna have to find something to do. Oh yeah, and there’s not Bob Odenkirk in this movie, not even in a flashback. Bogus.

So yeah, you’ll probably watch it, and you should, but whereas the original show was like super-lightning in some kind of super-bottle, El Camino feels more like a cash grab or maybe even like scraping the bottom of the Pinkman barrel. This is fine, it’s absolutely fine, but it’s not the same, nor could it be. Expect no more.

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JOKER

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Well, we finally made it. The long awaited Joker movie has arrived in cinemas, a modestly budgeted “superhero” movie that has exhaustingly made waves in the press over the last few months. How is it, you ask? Expect a whole lot of pseudo-psychology and grandiose visuals that have little-to-nothing to offer its supposed character-driven cinema.

Is it a surprise at this point that Joaquin Phoenix gives another incredible performance?

The man is reaching Daniel Day-Lewis/Gary Oldman levels of craft, and this is arguably more his movie than it is Director Todd Phillips’ (The Hangover). To his credit, Phoenix’s Arthur is fas-

cinating to follow, and Robert De Niro deserves a mention as talk show host Murray Franklin. It’s remarkable how comfortable he comes off while Phillip’s King of Comedy references remind you how good that movie was.

But what continually keeps Joker from reaching the greatness it teased during promotion is within its narrative structure. We’ve seen the plot points a million times before with films like Phoenix’s You Were Never Really Here, though that was leaps and bounds better. It’s also obvious that through the edgy dreck, a true auteur would have relished an opportunity to explore real psychopathy on screen. Point is, Joker is a Todd Phillips film, the director of gems such as Road Trip and Old School, and his run-ofthe-mill, vapid-bro tendencies shine through the veneer of this one. In fact, outside of the stunning partnership between the production design and cinematography, it’s hard to compliment anything else; even Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz as a love interest of sorts is forgettable.

Regardless of all the complaints, Joker remains a tremendous reach for DC Films and Warner Bros, and that willingness to think outside the box should be viewed as a partial success. When the market is loaded with cardboard cutout characters in fake-looking outfits, staring off into space when not engaging in a massive CGI battle, at least we have something different here. If this movie proves to be a success, maybe it’ll allow someone down the line to make a wholeheartedly good piece of cinema in the comic book genre. (Matthew Gutierrez)

Crown, Regal (both locations), R, 121 min.

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1979’s Alien sat at the intersection of so many literary, mythical, artistic and cinematic storytelling devices that it almost seemed more destined to fail than become what it did. In the aftermath of Star Wars‘ feel-good yet simplistic light-versus-dark filmmaking landscape, it’s honestly surprising it was made at all, but with writer Dan O’Bannon, director Ridley Scott and artist HR Giger coming together in a perfect storm of the strange, the terrifying and the downright Lovecraftian, Alien worked and captured the minds of generations. To this day, it is still dissected, discussed and touted as one of the greatest sci-fi accomplishments in modern film.

Documentarian Alexandre O Philippe (78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene) dives deep into the film, beginning with its comic book and ’50s sci-fi inspirations, traveling throughout the anatomy of our fears and conducting interviews with historians, TV hosts, film experts and academics; the still-living members of the original Alien team, O’Bannon’s widow, actors, set designers and others. What emerges is the most complete look at the history, impact and enduring legacy of Alien, and it is utterly fascinating.

We learn of the close calls that almost led to ruin, the bumbling studio execs who didn’t understand the heavy-hitter they were meddling with, of O’Bannon’s connection to the never-made Jodorowsky Dune and the ways in which certain stories can never be forgotten, but they can be retold in newer ways. Philippe

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This is documentary filmmaking at its finest, a little bit of adulation and a whole lot of research—the kind of thing that takes something you thought you knew and divulges its deepest secrets. Philippe paces it all so masterfully that it almost feels too short, but it still becomes one of the most well-made and intriguing documentaries on film ever created. (ADV)

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It ended with a fistfight by the side of the road as Jawbreaker bassist Chris Bauermeister lunged at singer/guitarist Blake Schwarzenbach during mounting inter-band tensions. Years of relentless touring, cross-country moves and going major label had exhausted the trio and made them pariahs of the punk rock world, and with sales of their final album Dear You tanking, it was over.

Fast-forward 20 years, and filmmakers Tim Irwin and Keith Schieron (of the Minutemen doc We Jam Econo) present an in-depth look at the forming of Jawbreaker, the subsequent years rising to fame and the pressure-filled descent into obscurity—outside of most punks, that is— until the second life of Dear You some years later and, eventually, Bauermeister, Schwarzenbach and drummer Adam Pfahler’s unexpected 2017 Riot Fest reuinion.

Don’t Break Down was actually released in 2017, but a new deal with a wider release finds it on streaming services such as Amazon Prime for the first time. For longtime fans, it’s a blessing, a strange journey of art school weirdos, battling egos and punk rock ethics as told by the band, their contemporaries, and those they

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Judy sure does exist. inspired like Smoking Popes’ Josh Caterer and Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong. We even hear from famed producer Steve Albini, though it’s possible he thought he was working with the band Jawbox the entire time.

Mistaken identity, politics and hurt feelings aside, it’s a deeply fascinating look at the missing link of punk, a band that inspired countless acts—who should have made it, and came so close, but that was never fully appreciated in their own time by the masses. As one interview subject implies in the film, while many looked to Green Day as the bridge between punk and the everyman, it was actually Jawbreaker’s mantle, though one they tragically lost.

Don’t Break Down thus becomes required viewing for the punk rock elite, the poseurs and those who still believe poetry can come with distorted guitars and raspy voices. For old-timers, it’s a feeling that we’re still part of a community; for newcomers, it’s a lesson in a brief window in the ’90s when everyone wanted to be punk. For everyone else, it’s a solid music documentary with a subtle lesson: Keep passing the open windows. (ADV)

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wise to doctors about how four ex-husbands didn’t cure her depression can make us feel for her. Instead, it almost feels lazy, like the whole of an iconic woman’s existence distilled into too much drinking and a bunch of embarrassing snafus onstage and off to prove how hard her life was. We were already there, frankly, but rarely does this version of Garland make her feel like a human person, even when she literally announces she is. So it’s really more like summoning pity than empathy.

Judy starts to lag, which is a shame as all the ingredients are right there for something wonderful. But between the poorly explained relationships, like American Horror Story‘s Finn Wittrock as Garland’s final husband Mickey Deans or a pair of gay men whose scenes feel tacked on by some exec who figured they needed a brief mention of gayness to check some arbitrary box, and all the underdeveloped side characters, the pacing becomes downright bizarre and repetitive. “Will she get onstage?” we wonder to ourselves again and again before realizing we don’t actually give a shit since nobody bothered to make it worth our time.

You’ll definitely be hearing about Zellweger come awards season as her performance does approach sensational a number of times. But for a better (and weirdly similar) biopic, try the far superior Stan & Ollie from last year. (ADV)

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They don’t really make them like Judy Garland anymore, but that’s a good thing—”they” are the monstrous studios that treated their actors like cattle; “they” are the ravenous audiences who acted like they could lay claim to the movie stars.

Based on the Peter Quilter play The End of the Rainbow, new biopic Judy finds Renée Zellweger as Garland during the last stage of her life as she embarked upon a series of shows in London, circa 1968. With several failed marriages, one Liza Minnelli and a couple of younger kids in the wings, a homeless Garland is all but forced to tackle the run to make a few bucks so she can be closer to her children, but she’s running on the last failing fumes of her falling star and has become a ball of nerves and anxiety.

Certainly the stories of her studio upbringing are almost as legendary as Garland herself; how Louis B Mayer practically tortured Garland as a teen, rarely letting her eat, putting her on a regimen of pills for weight and energy and consistently threatening to take the stardom away. We see some of this, a little bit of Mayer backlit to portray evil, looming and towering over the young Garland (Darci Shaw) as he manipulates her. But then it’s back to 1960s Judy post-haste, and no supply of Zellweger sulking in bathrooms and cracking

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Singapore has one of the world’s lowest fertility rate. A few years ago, this state of affairs prompted the government to urge Singaporeans to have sex on an annual holiday known as National Day. A new rap song was released in the hope of pumping up everyone’s libidos and instigating a baby boom. It included the lyrics, “Let’s make fireworks ignite / Let’s make Singapore’s birthrate spike.” I have a different reason for encouraging you to seek abundant high-quality sex, Aries. According to my analysis, tender orgasmic experiences will profoundly enhance your emotional intelligence in the coming weeks—and make you an excellent decision-maker just in time for your big decisions. (P.S. You don’t necessarily need a partner.)

call home? 2. If you didn’t have the name you actually go by, what other name would you choose? 3. If you had an urge to expand the circle of allies that supports and stimulates you, whom would you seek out? 4. If you wanted to add new foods and herbs that would nurture your physical health and new experiences that would nurture your mental health, what would they be?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the 1530s, explorer Jacques Cartier led expeditions from France to the New World. As Europeans often did back then, he and his team were rude and brutish to the indigenous folks who lived there, stealing their land, kidnapping some of them, and slaughtering herds of great auks in a bird sanctuary. Yet there was one winter when Cartier’s marauders got crucial help from their victims, who gave them vitamin C-rich pine needle tea that cured their scurvy. I suspect you Tauruses will embark on quests and journeys in the coming months, and I’m hoping your behavior will be different from Cartier’s.

When you arrive in unfamiliar places, be humble, curious, and respectful. Be hesitant to impose your concepts of what’s true, and be eager to learn from the locals. If you do, you’re likely to get rich teachings and benefits equivalent to the pine needle tea.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many software engineers have enjoyed The Pragmatic Programmer, a book that helps them develop and refine their code. One popular technique the book offers is “rubber duck deprogramming.”

Programmers place a toy rubber duck in front of them, and describe to it the problems they’re having. As they explain each line of code to their very good listener, they may discover what’s amiss. I recommend a similar approach to you as you embark on metaphorically debugging your own program, Gemini. If a rubber duck isn’t available, call on your favorite statue or stuffed animal, or even a photo of a catalytic teacher or relative or spirit.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Mushrooms have spores, not seeds. They’re tiny. If you could stack 2,500 of them, they’d be an inch high. On the other hand, they are numerous. A ripe mushroom may release up to 16 million spores. And each spore is so light-weight, the wind can pick it up and fling it long distances. I’ll encourage you to express your power and influence like a mushroom in the coming days: subtle and airy but abundant; light and fine, but relentless and bountiful.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it,” writes computer engineer Bill Joy. I invite you to consider the value of that perspective, Scorpio—even though you’re the least likely sign in all the zodiac to do so. Being naive just doesn’t come naturally to you; you often know more than everyone else around you. Maybe you’ll be more receptive to my suggestion if I reframe the task. Are you familiar with the Zen Buddhist concept of “beginner’s mind”?

You wipe away your assumptions and see everything as if it were the first time you were in its presence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Is it always a bad thing to be lost? To wander in the unknown without a map? I’d like to propose a good version of being lost. It requires you to be willing to give up your certainties, to relinquish your grip on the comforting dogmas that have structured your world—but to do so gladly, with a spirit of cheerful expectancy and curiosity. It doesn’t require you to be a macho hero who feels no fear or confusion. Rather, you have faith that life will provide blessings that weren’t possible until you got lost.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions,” wrote science educator Lewis Thomas. “Let’s acknowledge this, perhaps even learn to do it better.”

I agree with him! And I think it’s an ideal time for you CANCER (June 21-July 22): Read the following pasto learn how to worry more effectively, more potently, sage from Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One and with greater artistry. What might that look like?

Hundred Years of Solitude. “Gaston was not only a First, you wouldn’t feel shame or guilt about worryfierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but ing. You wouldn’t regard it as a failing. Rather, you he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of would raise your worrying to a higher power. You’d the species who had made an emergency landing and wield it as a savvy tool to discern which situations had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart truly need your concerned energy and which don’t. simply to make love in a field of violets.” I admire the AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Some wounds go so romantic artistry of Gaston’s dramatic gesture. I applaud his imaginative desire to express his love in a deep that you don’t even feel them until months, carefully chosen sanctuary filled with beauty. I praise maybe years, later,” wrote Aquarian author Julius Lester. Pay attention to that thought, Aquarius. The his intense devotion to playful extravagance. But I don’t recommend you do anything quite so extreme in bad news is that you are just now beginning to feel a behalf of love during the coming weeks. Being twenty wound that was inflicted some time ago. But that’s also the good news, because it means the wound will no percent as extreme might be just right, though. longer be hidden and unknowable. And because you’ll LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his song “Diplomatic be fully aware of it, you’ll be empowered to launch the Immunity,” rapper Drake disparages tranquility and healing process. I suggest you follow your early intuharmony. “I listen to heavy metal for meditation, no itions about how best to proceed with the cure. silence,” he brags. “My body isn’t much of a sacred temple, with vodka and wine, and sleep at the oppo- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you’ve been having site times,” he declares. Is there a method in his mad- dreams or fantasies that the roof is sinking or the walls ness? It’s revealed in these lyrics: “All that peace and are closing in, you should interpret it as a sign that you that unity: all that weak sh-- will ruin me.” In the should consider moving into a more spacious situation. coming weeks, Leo, I urge you to practice the exact If you have been trapped within the narrow confines of opposite of Drake’s approach. It’s time to treat your- limited possibilities, it’s time to break free and flee to a self to an intense and extended phase of self-care. wide open frontier. In general, Pisces, I urge you to insist on more expansiveness in everything you do, VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s a favorable time to even if that requires you to demolish cute little mental refresh your relationships with your basic sources and blocks that have tricked you into thinking small. to make connections with new basic sources. To spur your creative thought on these matters, I offer the folHomework: You don’t have to feel emotions that othlowing questions to meditate on. 1. If you weren’t living ers try to manipulate you into feeling. You are free to where you do now, what other place might you like to be who you want to be. FreeWillAstrology.com

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT No. D-101-PB-2019-00192 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE MATTER OF THE COURT ESTATE OF DAVID IAN COUNTY OF SANTA FE SATE OF NEW MEXICO SILCOCK, Deceased.

No. D-101-PB-2019-00186 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THE ESTATE OF LILY L. that the undersigned has GREENBRIDGE A/K/A been appointed Personal JOANNE BALTRUS A/K/A Representative of this estate.

LENE SUNGAZER, Deceased.

All persons having claims NOTICE TO CREDITORS against this estate are required NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to present their claims within that the undersigned has been appointed Personal four months after after the Representative of this estate. All date of the first publication persons having claims against of this notice or the claims this estate are required to pres- will be forever barred. Claims ent their claims within four must be presented either to months after the date of the first publication of this Notice if the undersigned Personal Representative in care of this Notice is given by publicaKaren Aubrey, Esq,. Law Office tion as provided in Subsection of Karen Aubrey, Post Office A of Section 45-3-801 NMSA 1978 or within sixty (60) days Box 8435, Santa Fe, New after the mailing or delivery of Mexico 87504-8435, or filed this Notice for creditors who are with the First Judicial District given actual notice as provided Court, Santa Fe County

by Subsection B of Section Judicial Complex, Post Office 45-3-801 NMSA 1978, whichever is later, or the claims will be Box 2268, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2268. forever barred. Claims must be Dated: October 21, 2019 presented either to the underMargaret Dragstra signed personal representative at 320 Osuna Rd NE, Unit G-4, LAW OFFICE OF KAREN AUBREY Albuquerque, NM 87107, or By: Karen Aubrey filed with the Santa Fe County P.O. Box 8435 District Court.

Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8435 DATED: OCTOBER 3, 2019.

(505) 982-4287; facsimile Shana Schoepke, Personal (505) 986-8349 Representative of the Estate of ka@karenaubreylaw.com Lily L Greenbridge, Deceased 445 2nd Avenue Pelham NY 10803 LEGAL NOTICES (347) 693-8361 ALL OTHERS KENNETH C. LEACH & ASSOCIATES, P.C. A-1 SELF STORAGE

By Sara M. Bonnell NEW MEXICO AUCTION AD Attorney for Shana Schoepke, NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Personal Representative of the PURSUANT TO NEW MEXICO Estate of Lily L. Greenbridge, STATUTES - 48-11-1-48-11-9: Deceased NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 320 Osuna Road NE, Unit G-4 THAT ON THE 7TH DAY OF Albuquerque NM 87107 NOVEMBER, 2019 (505) 883-2702

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At that time open Bids will be accepted, and the Entirety of the Following Storage Units will be sold to satisfy storage liens claimed by A-1 Self Storage.

The terms at the time of the sales will be Cash only, and all goods must be removed from the facility within 48 hours. A-1 Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any and all bids or cancel sale without notice. Owners of the units may pay lien amounts by 5:00 pm November 6, 2019 to avoid sale. The following units are scheduled for auction. Sale will be beginning at 09:00 am November 7, 2019 at 3902 Rodeo Road Unit#A096 Daniel Williams 3121C Jemez Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87507; Boxes, tools, vacuum, household items.

Unit#D026 John Pollock 711 Arapahoe St #B, Golden, CO 80401; Washer/dryer, box, furniture, stereo receiver, fan, mirror, rugs. Unit#D048 Carla Vigil 255 Camino Alire #B12, Santa Fe, NM 87501; Totes, bike, bags, boxes, furniture. Followed

By A-1 Self Storage 1311 Clark Road Unit#1042 Lorilee Sisneros 1611 Camino Rojo, Santa Fe, NM 87507; Mirror, furniture, boxes.

Unit#2106 Lorenzo Delgado 1287 Calle Corrazi, Santa Fe, NM 87507; Organ, tools, speakers, tools, totes, ceiling fan.

Unit#1060 Wendy Wysong 1241 Calle Commercio, Santa Fe, NM 87505; Mirror, lamp, tv, boxes, tote, tarp. Unit#2014 Wendy Wysong 1241 Calle Commercio, Santa Fe, NM 87505; Coat racks, shelves, lamps totes, boxes, pedestals, trash cans. Followed by A-1 Self Storage 1591 San Mateo Lane Unit#1725 Amadia Sanchez 2108 Calle Navidad, Santa Fe, NM 87501; Table, carjack, boxes, bags, dog pack. Unit#3009 Dale Martinez 1317 Calle Inez, Santa Fe, NM 87505; Tv’s boxes, totes, Christmas tree, vacuum, furniture, toy boxes. Unit#1233 Fernando Calderon 2047 Calle Lorca, Santa Fe, NM 87505; Furniture, treadmill, shovel, lamp.

Unti#2076 Kimberlie Platt 3-A Camino as Cuatas, Tesuque, NM 87574; Aquarium, furniture, boxes, bags, mini refrigerator.

Unit# 2099 Lonnie Petry 608 Pinon Dr, Santa Fe, NM 87501; Step ladders, punching bag, misc tools, bbq grill, furniture.

Unit#4078 Nick Armijo 1425 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87505; Canoe, mountain bike, life vests, folding chairs, tent, bungie cords. Unit#4108 Alef Yayo, Aborishade PO Box 252271, Los Angeles, CA 90025; Bike, hand weights, boxes, totes, bags, rolling cart, misc toys.

Unit#1240 Jennifer Ramos PO Box 4294, Santa Fe, NM 87502; Crutches, fan, portable heater, pots/pans, pet carrier, stereo, suitcase, boxes, bags.

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