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7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 HOUSE SALAD 9 Local House of Representatives races are heating up (and some are actually interesting) FORTRESS SFPS 11 Santa Fe schools has followed through on security gadgets but not yet on social workers COVER STORY 12 THE FUTURE OF FOOD Climate, technology, population, economics— they all play a part in what we eat now and what we might eat for centuries to come. Meet a few Santa Feans investigating the future of food from various angles THE ENTHUSIAST 17 A BIRD IN THE HAND A hawkin’ good time can be had by all, watching migrating raptors

THE TINSMITH After leaving behind an unfulfilling career in the Los Angeles fashion industry, Santa Fean Autry Macias returned home and fell in love with tinsmithing. Catch her this week at Good Folk Gallery.

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COVER, OCTOBER 10: “RUNNING AT POWER”

TWO MORE THINGS THO Although I appreciate the excellent coverage of some of the key issues and opinions of Michelle Lujan Grisham and Steve Pearce in your article, I feel that you left out two very important issues—one of which is the staggering amount of money NM taxpayers pay to private companies to run a number of our prisons, including detention centers housing undocumented immigrants. Secondly, the heartbreaking treatment of our undocumented immigrant neighbors as they face deportation and discrimination was not discussed. It’s not too late to run another article interviewing the two candidates on these very important issues.

JUDY CRAWFORD SANTA FE

FEELIN’ GASSY With Election Day only a few weeks away, residents are drowning in a dizzying array of political ads, with potential lawmakers promising jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Here’s a platform I want to see more candidates run on: energy. The state Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department describes our energy sector as “one of the state’s greatest assets,” noting it “provides revenue that funds schools, hospitals, and state government and lessens the tax burden on New Mexico’s citizens.”

What will the men and women running for office do to encourage growth in this important industry? Will they support natural gas distribution and development? That’s important because the growth in natural gas exploration is one of the main reasons our state is running a surplus and it’s why we’re in a good position even if there’s a recession soon. Every candidate must go on record and let voters know whether they are willing to support this growing sector.

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A LITTLE CRYPTIC, BUT...

Steve Pearce: Another impenetrable dickhead seeking public office. Don’t expect transparency with this one.

Michelle Lujan Grisham: She has a secret.

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NEWS, OCTOBER 17: “BALLOT BOSS”

BREAKING PARTY LINES I served as Secretary of State from 2007 to 2010, and prior to that position, I was elected twice as Bernalillo County Clerk. After I was elected as secretary of state, Maggie Toulouse Oliver did not have the votes to assume the office of Bernalillo County Clerk until I gave her my recommendation. I now regret ever recommending her, as both in her current and previous positions, Maggie was and continues to be personally responsible for rampant partisanship and corruption that has harmed New Mexicans and diminished their trust in our elections and institutions. ...

In contrast to Maggie, Dr. Gavin Clarkson is a political outsider who is not part of machine politics. His business background and expertise in law and technology make him an ideal candidate to reorient the office to focus on job creation and to restore full faith in the integrity of the voter rolls. It is evident that the amicus brief he authored was used as a blueprint by the Supreme Court to unanimously repudiate Maggie’s last-minute attempt to rig the election. His Harvard Law education probably contributed to the quality of that brief, and the fact that he is the first tribal member to ever earn a doctorate from the Harvard Business School shows the kind of energy he brings to every endeavor ...

New Mexico needs more jobs and our free and fair elections must be restored.

Accomplishing these objectives will require accountability to the rule of law from our elected officials, especially those entrusted with refereeing our elections and ethics ...

Although I could have remained on the sidelines, New Mexico is too important to me, and I can no longer remain silent. I am therefore wholeheartedly endorsing Clarkson.

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PENCE IS COMING TO ROSWELL TO STUMP FOR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES Bannon was there last week.

Leaders scrambling to come up with someone still more conservative for next week.

RACIST DUNKIN’ DONUTS LADY CALLS COPS ON LOS ALAMOS MAN Hook him up with lifetime donuts and coffee.

UNM ENROLLMENT WAY DOWN

It’s not the wi the l skil l l

But UNM car theft holding strong!

APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR SANTA FE PLACE MALL IN THE WORKS Of course, it’s probable none of us will be able to afford to live there, but cool!

SPEAKING OF MALLS, NEW ANCHOR STORE HOMEGOODS REPORTEDLY COMING TO DEVARGAS CENTER No word on whether this new store will include a bowling alley, though.

SFPS TO LET TURQUOISE TRAIL CHARTER SCHOOL STAY IN PLACE OFF HIGHWAY 14 If they still need more room they should seize and repurpose the nearby jail.

NEW MEXICO CLOSES IN ON 120,000 EARLY VOTES Under the false assumption that if you vote now, the TV ads and text messages will stop.

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Long time no tal k!

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LETTERS depth and perceived contemplation these days. I formerly read your publication for entertainment but I have now acknowledged a new level of communication that is/will bring you even more readers. I wish to name one of your outstanding reporters both for her skills and her interesting presentations: Charlotte Jusinski, theater and copy editor. I am almost beginning to overlook the occasional crude sophomoric and superfluous interjections of personal opinion from your erudite staff.

A side note: You are getting so valuable that I would gladly pay to purchase your publication often superior to our local newspaper of note in investigative reporting.

RAY FREEMAN SANTA FE

WEB EXTRA, SEPT. 26: “COUNCIL OK’S HILLTOP DEVELOPMENT”

WORK FOR US I am a 31-year old mother, native of Santa Fe. Despite work offers all over the country, I chose to invest in my home community.

I attended the Sept. 26 city hearing on the Estancia del Norte Development and was hugely disappointed.

The proposed land was deemed unfit for development by the city several times in the 1990s. Nothing has changed except the City Council. It is prone to flooding and erosion and if developed, will threaten existing properties.

Pandering to wealthy second- and third-homeowners over multi-generational residents is not what Santa Fe pictured when electing Mayor Webber.

Nearly 50 residents spoke out in opposition. Despite passionate, intelligent pleas, six council members, including Webber, approved the development. They disregarded facts to cater to outside moneyed interest. This precise trend is drowning young people today. Support of this development negates Webber’s campaign promises to unite Santa Fe, make life sustainable and retain young people.

Mayor Webber, I understand that you are an entrepreneur. Your pro-business agenda should not override legitimate concerns of local families. Be innovative. Help your constituents find consensus. Balance economic growth while “sustaining the way of life in Santa Fe.” We elected you to safeguard all communities.

EMILY FOLKS SANTA FE

FOOD, OCTOBER 17: “GET YOUR VEGAN FIX AT ROOT 66”

SPEAKIN’ FOR CREATURES As a minor partner of Root 66 and a board member of Animal Protection Voters, your readers should be aware that a substantial portion of the profits at Root 66 goes to funding Animal Protection Voters.

APV is focused on reviving our low-cost spay/neuter bill that languished on the desk of Governor Martinez after the last legislative session (almost 60,000 dogs are needlessly euthanized in shelters every year in New Mexico for lack of homes and spay/neuter funds). APV will also be working diligently on ending coyote killing contests and trapping/ poisoning on public land in New Mexico.

APV has a long history of successful campaigns including ending cockfighting, horse tripping and making extreme animal cruelty a felony.

If you aren’t a supporter of Animal Protection Voters, please consider helping us help animals by donating at APVNM.org.

JAMES CORCORAN SANTA FE

NEWS, OCTOBER 10: “READY, SET, COMPOST”

SHOUT-OUT We in Agua Fria Village are proud to have Reunity Resources here at the Santa Fe Community Farm site at San Ysidro Crossing.

Saving space in the landfill is important and saving garbage from being with rotting food in the waste stream even more important.

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CORRECTION Kakawa Chocolate House’s logo is Mayaninspired, not Olmec, as SFR stated in “Welcome to the Chocolate Factory” (Food, Oct. 10).

SFR will correct factual errors online and in print. Please let us know if we make a mistake: editor@sfreporter.com or 988-7530.

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Northern New Mexico’s legislative races are in the mix for the state’s most interesting

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Christine Chandler is one of two Democrats on the county council who ran for the nomination. She’s proven an able fundraiser, taking in $128,000, which includes a $26,500 loan to herself. She reported $73,000 on hand to spend in the campaign’s final month. She’ll need to leverage the get-out-the-vote efforts of the Democratic Party to make sure she’s not done in by high Republican turnout in the conservative parts of the district.

Shin didn’t face a primary opponent, so the $66,000 she’s raised has only gone to the general election effort.

She has kept almost $30,000 at the ready for the home stretch. That’s a lot, and even if you subtract Chandler’s loans to herself, that was more than $75,000 between the two candidates to pump into mailboxes, radio stations and maybe even TV ads over the final four weeks of the race.

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handful of Northern New Mexico legislative races in the upcoming general election will impact the state’s balance of power, whether that’s between parties or, as is the case in House District 46, within a party.

As they are every two years, all seats in the House of Representatives are up for grabs. After a brief stint in power from 2015-17, Republicans ceded control of the House back to Democrats. The current party balance is 38-31, with House District 27 vacant after the death of longtime Albuquerque Republican Larry Larrañaga.

District 46 (Santa Fe, Pojoaque, Tesuque, Nambé) Long the seat of power in the House under Speaker Ben Luján, upstart Rep. Carl Trujillo has held it for the past three terms. Sexual misconduct allegations derailed Trujillo’s re-election bid, and Andrea Romero is now the Democratic nominee.

But Romero has her own baggage. So much so, in fact, that she’s drawn a serious write-in challenge from Democrat Heather Nordquist.

Earlier this year, Nordquist was one of two people who spoke up about spending by Romero in her role as executive director of the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities. Romero footed the bill for pricey dinners, drinks and a ballgame in Washington, DC, and some of the same here at home. She charged the coalition for the spending (it was approved), but it was later deemed improper.

Critics like Nordquist say Romero should have known not to spend big on the public dime. Romero says she’s paid back what the coalition told her to after reexamining the spending.

Aside from being the party’s elected nominee—or perhaps because of it—Romero has the fundraising advantage. She’s tallied $98,000, though more than half that was raised during her hard-won primary against Trujillo. She has $16,000 ready to spend in her effort to claim the seat.

Nordquist has raised a respectable $23,000, but she’s had to spend briskly to boost her name recognition. She’s been financing many expenses herself, and reported just under $1,000 on hand with a month to go, though it’s likely she’ll both raise and spend more than that down the stretch.

Romero lives in Santa Fe and is a consultant and sometime ostrich rancher. Nordquist is a nuclear safeguards specialist at Los Alamos National Lab.

District 43 (Los Alamos, White Rock, Jemez Springs, Cuba) When Stephanie Garcia Richard announced she was abandoning her hard-won House seat in order to run for state land commissioner, Republicans started salivating. The post had been held by the GOP’s Jeannette

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Wallace for decades before Democrat Garcia Richard, and even in the last redistricting plan, the district showed a tendency to perform slightly better for Republican presidential candidates.

Republicans are running to the right on this one.

Lisa Shin is a Los Alamos optometrist and big Donald Trump supporter. Los Alamos and White Rock are definitely conservative—but whether they’re this conservative is another question. While Republicans can do well here, they’ve done so on the strength of independent voters and crossover Democrats. Just 30 percent of the district’s voters are registered as Republicans, with a full 25 percent declining to affiliate with a party.

It might seem likely that voters would return attorney Matthew McQueen to his seat. He’s considered among the more capable, involved House lawmakers. But independent candidate Jarratt Applewhite has raised his profile much higher than most unknown challengers.

The massive district includes Eldorado and leans Democratic, but it stretches to include parts of more conservative communities like Edgewood and Moriarty, and there are enough rural voters to make things interesting if they break for Applewhite.

That scenario looks something like this: While not especially motivated by Applewhite, Republican and independent-minded voters who aren’t affiliated with a party turn out to vote for top-of-the ticket races like governor and Senate. As they work their way down the ballot, they come to the McQueen vs. Applewhite race and decide to try something different. Coupled with the voters who are motivated by his candidacy, Applewhite lands a surprise gig at the Roundhouse.

It’s not the likeliest of scenarios, especially if any new polls show a widening gap for governor or Martin Heinrich’s US Senate seat. But it’s not crazy.

What’s working against Applewhite—other than McQueen’s reputation—is McQueen’s bank account.

Though the two have both raised about $60,000, McQueen still has $49,000 to spend and the Democratic Party infrastructure when it comes to getting out the vote.

What’s working for Applewhite is that he’s plugged into a national network of nonpartisan candidates and seems to be fundraising through it. He’s also loaned himself $27,500 for the campaign, so his $3,300 cashon-hand balance isn’t the anchor that it might seem.

Applewhite is an entrepreneur and civil servant, and a passive investor in Albuquerque’s Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. He also has the notable distinction of having received $140 from Nirvana bass guitar player Krist Novoselic, who listed his profession as “accordionist.”

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The school district is installing safety barricades and digital sign-in kiosks, but is slower at hiring social workers for distressed students

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he news on May 18 was enough to stop people around here dead in their tracks, if only for a flash. In another Santa Fe, in Texas, at another namesake high school near Galveston, a 17-year-old used a shotgun to murder 10 fellow students and wound another 13.

Just two months earlier, students at the Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, had gathered in a show of solidarity with others affected by gun violence at schools across the country. The school was also the site of two gun scares last fall.

By the time of the rally, Santa Fe Public Schools had already inked deals with two companies for visitor ID cards scanners and barricades on classroom doors throughout the district. As the current school year unfolds, both initiatives are getting legs while school districts across the country test their own response to shootings. School security is adding up to become a $3 billion industry by 2019.

SFPS signed a nearly $70,000 contract with Houston-based Raptor Technologies on Feb. 23 to install check-in kiosks at every school in the district and some administrative offices. The cost includes as-needed training for school administrators to operate the systems, which will replace pen-and-paper sign-in sheets.

A video on Raptor’s website says visitors must present a government-issued ID, which the company’s system checks against sex offender registries in all 50 states, and alerts school officials when

there’s a hit on someone who signs in. The system does not report on a visitor’s complete criminal history. There are reports, however, of the kiosks producing false positives against sex offender registries.

Company Vice President Eileen Shihadeh tells SFR in an email that school districts can also create custom databases “which can include unwanted entrants.”

Jeff Gephart, a spokesperson for the school district, says that in addition to sex offender registries, visitors are screened against a SFPS student information system that includes parental data.

Another issue, voiced by city Immigration Committee member Susan Hayre at a committee meeting on Aug. 21, was that the requirement for government-issued ID had created concerns among parents who fear the system will be used to communicate with immigration enforcement.

Shihadeh tells SFR the Raptor system can scan any ID with a 2D barcode or MRZ, including consular IDs, and that districts could opt to manually enter a person’s information without requiring ID. Data about visitors is stored in a cloud accessible by school officials over the internet.

Gephart says parents should feel welcome in Santa Fe’s public schools.

“We always stress that this system does not check residency, immigration or citizenship status,” Gephart says.

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nesses that specialize in school fortification. The Asssociated Press reports that many of these firms are pushing for new state legislation that would set minimum security requirements in schools, likely boosting sales of their products.

This month, New Mexico doled out $16 million in matching funds to districts for security upgrades. SFPS didn’t apply for any of the money.

Raptor Technologies released survey results in August that showed three quarters of responding parents were willing to personally pay for more school security. Raptor conducted the survey in partnership with the organization Safe and Sound Schools, which itself is part of a trade association created and funded by the $2.4 billion security firm Allegion. Raptor isn’t part of any trade group,

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but Shihadeh says business has been good since the start of the year.

The other company working with SFPS, Campus Safety Products LLC, reports that 2018 has been a breakout year for its business.

The district signed a contract on March 12 with the firm for 1,250 “RhinoWare” door barricade units, which Gephart says are being installed on the doors of every classroom at a cost of $262,000. The barricades are a little larger than the size of an adult hand; mounted near the floor, they are activated by manually switching a mechanism that extends a metal arm to secure the door to the floor.

The barricades are supposed to withstand gun blasts and other heavy blunt force. CEO Ed Johnson, who says SFPS began a pilot program with the company two years ago, claims that Campus Safety Products’ relationship with SFPS put the company on the national map.

Money for both projects is coming from a property tax re-approved by voters earlier this year.

While the district has moved quickly to put new security systems in place, it’s been slower to introduce a different approach to school safety: social workers versed in assisting emotionally distressed students.

Last year, the SFPS board set aside $500,000 from the sale of the former Alvord Elementary building to hire these new workers. Steve Carrillo, president of the board, stresses that their function is different from school guidance counselors.

“It’s someone whose experience rests with dealing with kids with troubling issues,” Carrillo tells SFR Gephart says in an email that the district is currently finalizing job descriptions for the social workers, and will be accepting applications soon.

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THE FUTURE OF FOOD Local pioneers create new ways of providing solutions to the current challenges facing the agriculture ecosystem

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his week’s new Restaurant Guide celebrates Santa Fe’s booming and diverse culinary scene. (See SFReporter.com/pickup for how to find it.) But the city’s relationship with food doesn’t stop with its restaurants. This week, SFR also takes a look at a handful of the many local people, businesses and organizations whose work centers on innovating in the food and agriculture sector. That diverse area extends beyond eating into an entire ecosystem of growing, delivering and monitoring foods, and addresses the ways agriculture connects to social and ecological considerations. The future of food might summon visions of robots in commercial kitchens and waiting tables, but in Santa Fe, the forward-thinkers are less interested in automation and more concerned with creating sustainable models which, in many cases, take cues from the past.

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Nina Yozell-Epstein founded her business Squash Blossom in 2015, but the 34-year-old had begun, she says, “to incubate” the work seven years prior when she worked in the nonprofit sector, specifically on the former Santa Fe Alliance’s Buy Local campaign that helped educate consumers about the health and economic benefits of eating locally sourced food.

“We were educating the general public about wanting to spend an extra buck on an egg at a café and educating the chefs about that business potential,” she says.

“There’s this very economic translation to how long food can last when you buy it fresh, and so you’re not coming in from the Sysco truck with half your order not being even viable to use.”

After the Santa Fe Alliance folded, Yozell-Epstein took the program to another nonprofit called Farm to Table and continued to establish the framework of what would become a viable business of wholesaling local food and products to restaurants. “It did take years of explain-

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ing … and testing the market and making sure people were interested. And after a while of doing that, from 2008 until 2014, [it started becoming] less educational and more transactional.” By 2014, she recognized she was “literally selling food to restaurants and facilitating this process of distributing it,” and was “ready to stand on my own and start Squash Blossom.”

Squash Blossom began as a wholesale distributor of local products from farms to restaurants—approximately 30 local farms and nearly two dozen restaurants. Yozell-Epstein has a longterm relationship with the Santa Fe Farmers Market—she previously served on its board and is now a vendor with her partner Mathew Ladegaard for Ground Stone Farm. Squash Blossom has since expanded to individual retail sales called Blossom Bags for residents who want to buy local food for weekly pickup.

Customers can choose their selections online (squashblossomlocalfood.com) and then pick them up weekly from distribution points (Squash Blossom also offers workplace subscriptions).

Choices include seasonal produce as well as value-added products created by local farmers such as jams, pickles and kimchi.

Shoppers also can buy locally roasted

Nina Yozell-Epstein’s Squash Blossom delivers local food to restaurants and kitchens.

coffee and eggs.

In year two, the business was one of three recipients of the 2016 City of Santa Fe’s Mayor’s Sustainability Award for Food Security. This year, Squash Blossom was named the city’s Small Business of the Year, and also received the Small Business Administration’s New Mexico Home-Based Business of the Year designation.

While Yozell-Epstein started Squash Blossom after seeing its viability as a business, her motivation resides in her belief on the importance of local food in a sustainable future. When she was starting the business and participating in business incubators, she says someone asked her what “problem” she was trying to solve with Squash Blossom.

“Name a problem that local food doesn’t solve,” she says, noting that her company provides reliable income for farmers and easy access to healthy food for customers.

“I started Squash Blossom and all this work because I feel, in a more and more unstable future, as far as temperature and nature and politics and everything, it gets unnerving and local food really feels like an empowering solution to me,” she says. “It feels like as long as we can support and maintain small-scale farmers, then we have a radical independence and

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an opportunity for health and strength in our community and our economy and our land.” Facilitating relationships between local farmers, restaurants and consumers also pushes back against corporate food distribution models such as Amazon or Blue Apron. “Squash Blossom is based on relationships, and that’s something New Mexico is based on. You can’t scale that. Amazon can’t replace this. We have a strength and a sovereignty in how small we are and how local we are and how tight these webs of communication are.”

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variety of organizations including the Hopkins Center, Roadrunner Food Bank, La Montañita Co-op and La Familia Medical Center, as well as several Pueblo organizations.

Rebecca Baran-Rees, the food, agriculture and sustainability program officer for the Santa Fe Community Foundation, works as project director for MoGro. “It’s moved from being essentially a mobile grocery service that would visit just these rural communities, the majority of which were tribal, to now serving a broader array of communities that are

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MoGro Mobile Grocery originally launched in response to a specific need articulated in 2011 by Santo Domingo Pueblo in community discussions regarding barriers to healthy living.

Access to healthy food emerged as a clear need. The initiative, originally launched in 2010 by philanthropists Rick and Beth Schnieders through their work with the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health in Albuquerque, began as a mobile grocery store making weekly visits to that pueblo as well as San Felipe, Cochiti, Laguna, San Ildefonso and Jemez. Today, the project (mogro. net) is run by the Santa Fe Community Foundation in partnership with a

Apogee Spirulina founder Nicholas Petrovic started the business after he attended a program at Santa Fe Community College.

MoGro began with weekly visits to Pueblo communities.

scattered further across different geographies,” she says, noting that MoGro serves Albuquerque and surrounding areas, as well as Santa Fe, with hopes to continue expanding further north. Food delivery takes place at partnership sites, such as La Familia Medical Center and Santa Fe Indian Hospital. Distribution happens with the help of “community champions” who are either hired by the program or are already on staff at clinics and whose “work is also about healthy eating and prevention,” she says. “So it’s a nice alignment. … The community champions are really there doing outreach and community-building components” while the food is there for delivery.

MoGro’s work also includes nutritional education and cooking classes, and it is piloting a recipe program as well. A recent shift in the program included creating a sliding-scale price structure so that its weekly deliveries also are available to higher-income families.

“Previously we’d just been driven to do food access because so many families in New Mexico are food insecure,” Baran-Rees says. But making the project financially sustainable also is a goal, as is understanding and responding to issues beyond access as limitations to healthy eating.

“Food behavior is such a complex system,” she says, “Not only is it driven by the question of how do we access our food, [but also]: Is it healthy, is it culturally relevant and reflective of my values, do I have time to cook it, are these things my kids want to eat? When we think about how to help more families live healthier lives and eat the things they want to eat, it involves … much more than just having

better food access and having the food show up. It can’t just be that alone.” That’s why, even in its earliest incarnation, MoGro also incorporated classes and activities. “Those have been really consistent since the beginning in part because it was so clear … how important they were.”

Many of the questions MoGro tackles in its work are similar to ones Baran-Rees, 34, considered in her graduate work at Cornell University in city and regional planning, where alternative service delivery models were a consideration for community planning in rural areas.

“The questions that felt omnipresent for a lot of social services were how do we serve the people who need these resources … and how can cities and counties invest in infrastructure to [create] … equitable access.” Similarly with food systems, “people live far from healthy food places, so what does equity mean in that context? How can we create better structures that will enable more families who need and deserve and should be able to live a healthy life, but are essentially priced out?”

BLUE-GREEN FUTURE

Chances are you’ve heard of spirulina, currently enjoying the spotlight as a popular superfood and nutritional cure-all.

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But even food-trend skeptics (sorry, coconut oil) will have trouble questioning this blue-green algae’s ancient credentials.

“It’s 3.5 billion years old,” says Apogee Spirulina founder Nicholas Petrović. “It’s been around for a while.”

Petrović was introduced to spirulina more recently, when he moved to Santa Fe from San Francisco in 2009, specifically to attend Santa Fe Community College.

It had the only program in the country offering what Petrović was looking for at the time in terms of photovoltaic training.

But once enrolled in the dynamic School of Trades, Advanced Technologies and Sustainability, Petrović’s interest shifted during a course in which students learned how to produce algae as a step toward working in the algal biofuels sector.

“I had never heard of this stuff before,” Petrović says, “And I thought, ‘This is really cool. This is low-hanging fruit.’”

From there, he says, “I ended up killing thousands of gallons of it figuring out how to grow it.” His research led him to become interested in France’s artisanal spirulina culture. He wrote to leaders in the field there, received a list of growers and, after graduating from SFCC in 2012, traveled to Aubagne, France, and spent the summer interning with a master spirulina farmer in order to learn the art of cultivation. “Twenty-five years ago, there were maybe about three; but now there are over 200 of them in France, Spain and Italy, these little micro-artisan cultivation farms, which is great.”

Petrović returned home and began the work of setting up his own high-desert artisan spirulina farm. The college supported his endeavors and, with the help of its board and former SFCC President Randy Grissom, in 2013 the entrepreneur in 2013 founded his business. Today, Apogee Spirulina, using the cultivation and harvesting methods Petrović learned in France, includes greenhouses totaling approximately 5,500 square feet on the SFCC campus. The small greenhouses re-

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duce water evaporation, and also provide a cleaner environment that eliminates the need for any type of pesticide.

Petrović, 51, says he considers himself a “protein farmer” rather than a spirulina farmer. “The big thing with spirulina is it’s 64 percent protein,” he says. “That’s why vegans love it; that, and the iron level and calcium. It’s a complete food source, easily digestible, we don’t waste any of it.” Forbes Magazine last June profiled scientists from the food to climate to energy sectors all predicting that algae would play a key role in their various areas in the future.

Petrović also believes spirulina will be key in agriculture’s future. Agriculture in its current form, he says, “isn’t sustainable.” His footprint, on the other hand, from water use to energy, is small. “That’s the future of food,” he says. “Small-scale community-based farming … within a few miles of the center of town.”

In addition to the benefits for the environment, Petrović notes that the French farmers with whom he trained have hu-

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manitarian context for their work; many, he says, work in Africa during their off months helping set up community farms.

“It’s feeding humanity,” he says, noting that in New Mexico, “food insecurity is a big deal” and that is a motivator. At the same time, he says, “I’d like to make a living at this too. I think you can balance the two. I think it’s doable.”

Petrović has a retail business through his website (apogeespirulina.com) and the Santa Fe Farmers Market, as well as a wholesale business. His company also is developing recipes using spirulina.

Much of Petrović’s work also includes educating the public; a workshop he ran last summer drew spirulina enthusiasts from around the US, as well as from Australia.

Petrović also teaches classes at SFCC. His work with spirulina is one part of the program where he earned his degree, which also includes courses on aquaponics farming—a combination of fish farming and horticulture—previously featured in SFR and taught by Charlie Shultz, with whom Petrović collaborates. The envi-

ronment of SFCC’s School of Trades, Advanced Technologies and Sustainability has definitely helped foster creating opportunity for locally grown food. “It’s been tremendous,” Petrović says. “We’re at the cutting edge here in Santa Fe.”

THINKING LIKE A BIOSPHERIAN

“The shift to a regenerative and healing relationship with our biosphere will improve our well-being,” writes Mark Nelson in his 2018 book, Pushing Our Limits: Insights from Biosphere 2. He continues: “‘Nature deficit disorder’ in our increasingly urbanized world perhaps explains why so many people find their lives unsatisfying. Something is missing.”

Nelson was one of eight crew members from 1991 to 1993 living in Biosphere 2 (Biosphere 1 being the Earth itself ), a closed ecological system including representative material from all different parts of the world (from bonsai rainforest to oceanic coral reef ). The scientists on board lived in a 3-acre world with both farming and technology, and aimed to discover what was known and what needed

While many local food pioneers take a hands-on approach, the agriculture work at Descartes Labs (descarteslabs.com) applies a broader view. The broadest view, really. The company’s work centers on using machine learning applied to data sets to create predictive models in various sectors. Agriculture is one of them. By using and analyzing satellite imagery, the company is able to predict crop performance.

“With satellites I can see every field everywhere in the US or in the world ev-

ery day,” Descartes cofounder Tim Kelton says. “I can hire 1,000 people or 10,000 people and have them try to drive and take a sample, and we’re still not going to get all the fields everywhere; it’s not a human-scale problem.”

Kelton, who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 15 years before cofounding Descartes, approaches the work with his computing background.

“We’re not agronomists,” he says. “We’ve just taken massive amounts of data and

pulled it in and figured out ways to build models and iterate on those models as quickly as we can.”

The company began the agricultural modeling in summer 2015; its first models were for corn production. Since then, it’s expanded to many crops and many different geographies. Being able to provide more and better information about crop yields has a variety of important applications, he says. “The earlier you can detect too much or not as much food being grown in certain regions of the country, then you can think of all the supply chain follow-ups. … Most of the grain grown in the US is actually exported. … Follow that supply chain, you have international ships shipping it all over the world, you have barges in the Mississippi, you have rail capacity that has to get leased or procured, and you need to know, ‘Do they need to go to northern Iowa or western Oklahoma?’ So the better visibility you get into that, that’s going to affect that entire set of supply chain, and all the costs will eventually go to the consumer one way or the other.”

From the get-go, Descartes has been successful with its models; one of its clients from the beginning, Kelton says, is Cargill, a large agriculture commodities company.

The implications can extend beyond just the financial in other parts of the world, where countries might not have the equivalent of the United States Department of Agriculture for historical and contemporary data.

In one case, Descartes worked on a program for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), one of the US Department of Defense’s agencies -Tim Kelton, investigating food shortage in Descartes Lab cofounder northern Africa. “The food shortage was looked at as a leading indicator into Arab Spring,” he says. “So you can see much bigger implications in other parts of the world; here it’s Albertson’s raised the price for cereal, but there it potentially is causing much greater effects.” The satellite work, Kelton believes, will be useful to farmers and businesses, but also for humanitarian purposes. “If you can early-detect better that this part of the world is going to be short in food or water or something that’s measurable, the quicker you might be in getting aid there or at least make that information available in an earlier time frame to international organizations.”

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to be known about the world’s biosphere; specifically, how to create greater harmony between people and ecological systems.

Today Nelson is the chairman of the Institute of Ecotechnics, founded in New Mexico in 1973 (it also has UK offices).

The institute’s many initiatives include its home base, Synergia Ranch, located off Highway 14, which has operated since 1969 and is both an organic farm with hundreds of fruit trees and vegetables, as well as a retreat center and host for various innovative projects. Many of these projects were ahead of their time when they began decades ago, and remain forward-thinking in their goals to gather information, educate and experiment with reversing the damage already done to the planet.

Nelson explains the term ecotechnics stems from Lewis Mumford’s 1934 book Technics & Civilization, which called for a new stage in the relationship between technology and civilization, so-called biotechnics, which Nelson tells SFR is “a technology that was much more sensitive to, responsive to and compatible with human life.” Synergia Ranch founders took that word and created the term ecotechnics to describe its mission of reversing “this complete disharmony we have between the technosphere and the biosphere that nurtures us and enriches our spirits and our bodies.”

“The goal was to reverse human history and, sadly, a lot of it can be summarized as ‘deserts are the footsteps of civilization,’” Nelson says. “Our overarching goal at Synergia Ranch was, ‘Let’s reverse that; let’s make an oasis in the desert.’”

The work on the ranch has been a combination of old-fashioned farming and progressive experimentation. More than 1,000 trees have been planted since the beginning. Soil restoration has been a major focus with decades of work to improve the soil through remediation of the damage done by erosion. The ranch includes a geodesic dome, yurt and workshop spaces.

A variety of organizations partner with or use the space in fields ranging from ecology to sustainable forestry to book publishing (the institute also has an ocean research vessel, The Heraclitus). The working farm, which is certified organic, sells its wares at the Santa Fe Farmers Market, and also hosts volunteers (the ranch is part of the WWOOF, a worldwide organic farm volunteer organization).

“We see this as open-ended and continuing effort to restore the wealth of the ecology that was originally here,” Nelson, 71, says. And despite the challenges facing the world, he says he remains optimistic.

“We’re all survivors,” he says. “Our genes have come through billions of years of evolution.”

We’ve just taken massive amounts of data and pulled it in and figured out ways to build models and iterate on those models as quickly as we can.

A satellite image from Descartes’ field segmentation program shows two different crop types.

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A Bird in the Hand

Hawkwatch International field crew lead Jessica Taylor examines a sharpshinned hawk caught in the Manzano Mountains.

Hawkwatch International station monitors migratory raptors with hopes of spotting long-term population trends

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partly cloudy, cool October morning with a light breeze makes for little action at the Hawkwatch International station in the Manzano Mountains. Field crew members and volunteers sit with binoculars, scanning the horizon for the dark profiles of southbound birds.

They grumble at the resident red-tailed hawk cruising for a late breakfast. Repeat fly-bys aren’t what they’re after.

From late August to early November, every day weather permits, crew members and volunteers sit at this rocky promontory. It overlooks the valley south of Albuquerque, between the Manzanos and Mount Taylor, and boasts a view north to the Sangre de Cristo and Ortiz mountains.

They’re well-positioned on a northsouth corridor to count raptors migrating for the winter, explains crew lead and lead bander Jessica Taylor. The raptors sometimes fly by so close to the humans’ perch they can see the wing bands marking a hatch-year red-tailed hawk—a bird making its first seasonal trip. Some species will ride the wind as far south as Argentina.

The site is part of a network tracking birds on the Rocky Mountain Flyway, and has been staffed since 1985. Each season,

they count about 5,000 raptors in 18 species, and band about one-tenth of those they see. Three times this year, crew members caught birds already banded.

One bird they netted had been caught by a Hawkwatch station in Wyoming 11 days prior. On their busiest day, they counted 350 birds.

Field crew and volunteers trade in nicknames for familiar geographic features on the horizon: the molar, the knob, the pink cliffs. That and shorthand like “two glasses up,” meaning the space of two binocular views, help multiple spotters zero in on the same bird at a distance. They rapidly recognize familiar profiles of sharp-shinned hawks, Cooper’s hawks, turkey vultures, Swainson’s hawks, golden eagles and American kestrels—and can do so when those birds remain invisible to someone viewing with the naked eye.

Farther down the hill, other crew staff a blind equipped with nets and lures to catch

a few raptors. The information gathered in a less than 10-minute stop helps raptor researchers understand more about migratory behavior and bird health. They’re also collecting feathers, which hold DNA that can be tested for years, allowing future studies to use that data to investigate questions we haven’t yet thought to ask.

Generally, Taylor says, “The most useful data Hawkwatch can get is trends in fluctuating populations.”

That information has helped identify, for example, pesticides being used on farms in South America near where Swainson’s hawks breed that was leading to a drop in their numbers. Recent years have seen the American kestrels making a similar decline, and now Hawkwatch International is collaborating with other research institutions to study what’s causing their numbers to tank.

Raptor counts might also speak to broader trends.

“There are definitely birds that take the same migratory path year after year after year, but most raptors are fairly flexible with their migratory paths, which is really great for scientific purposes because we can study ecosystem health— ‘Oh, well, they’re not going over there. Why is that?’”

Taylor says. With climate changing ecosystems, she says, “Hopefully, raptors will serve as an indicator to the bigger picture.”

We’ve been talking and not all eyes have been on the sky, so when a field crew member walks up from a blind carrying two tin cans duct-taped together into one long tube, Taylor exclaims, “Hey, you guys got a bird.”

A tuft of gray and white tail feathers protrudes from the end of the bird equivalent of a thunder jacket. Taylor cradles the cans and slowly extracts an adult male sharp-shinned hawk. It waits in her hand while she gives a tour of its rufous chest and slate-blue back feathers and the “sharps” that define a raptor: its talons, beak and eyesight. She wiggles it, showing its head stays steady even as its body moves, allowing it to hunt while flying.

Taylor makes a point of letting volunteers release the birds—with kids, this smallest hawk can be placed in their hands, where it’ll take a moment to recognize it’s free and launch from their open palm.

“One of the best parts about the job is getting to pass a raptor off to somebody else,” she says. “Most people are never going to be able to hold a bird like that in their lifetime.”

So she talks me through sliding a finger along its stomach and then wrapping my hands around its sharp shins and bracing one finger in the warm, soft down of its stomach. It blinks its orange eyes at me, then I turn toward the valley and let it go with a little boost. Its wings hook on the air and it disappears beyond the oaks.

Visitors are welcome at the Hawkwatch International station.

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ROOM FOR IMPROV-MENT Sorry about the dorky headline, but there’s one core rule to the world of improv that’s important to remember: Always say yes, even if you think it’ll come across as dumb. See, we know this because we’ve taken a class before, just not in Santa Fe; but with the rise of Santa Fe Improv, we might just have to give it a try. Instructor Scott Plunkett has a lot to impart, and he’ll do so at the Honing Improv Skills workshop tonight and tomorrow evening at 6 pm at Santa Fe Improv’s space; you can also check out a performance from the group at Warehouse 21 on Friday. It should be a funny and thoroughly unscripted time. (ADV)

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Honing Improv Skills: 6 pm Wednesday and Thursday Oct. 24 and 25. $25. Santa Fe Improv, 1213 Mercantile Road, Ste. D, 395-0580 Santa Fe Improv: BANG!: 7 pm Friday Oct. 26. $10.

Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423

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MUSIC SAT/27 OUT OF THIS WORLD If you’ve yet to visit Paradiso, the sort of private but you can totally go club hidden behind the Fruit of the Earth Organics dispensary, you’re missing out—and the time to rectify the issue is now: Halloween time, party time. Find yourself there for the Earth Alien dance party, a live music event featuring musicians Dwight Loop, Lee Howard, Arnold Bodmer and Justin Parker getting super weird and super dancey with keys, loops, electronics and more. Those with their cards can even pop by the dispensary for some party aids beforehand or during the show, and everyone else can find out why Paradiso is one of the best if most underappreciated venues in town. (ADV) Earth Alien: 8 pm Saturday Oct. 27. $10.

Paradiso, 903 Early St., 415-889-0035

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LECTURE MON/29 COMMON KNOWLEDGE The concept of The Commons is a pretty simple one: That the Earth and its resources are available equally to all species thereon; it’s also clearly a quintessentially Indigenous perspective. Renowned historian Jack Loeffler takes it a step further: “It dawned on me fairly recently that human consciousness itself is like a commons, and over the last decades, it’s been subject to a hostile takeover by the corporate political system,” he says. His Monday lecture explains how he believes “it is possible for us to get back into a level of cultural sanity if we can recognize who we are and where we are and where we came from.”

He seems more optimistic than we are, so maybe we can all learn something. (Charlotte Jusinski) Southwest Seminars: Indigenous Minds and the Commons of Human Consciousness: 6 pm Monday Oct. 29. $15. Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200

ART OPENING FRI/26

Match 3 Santa Fe Community Gallery celebrates 10 years with artist retrospective The art game known as Exquisite Corpse can trace its roots back to 1925 Paris when Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert and André Breton allegedly created it, and it’s only grown in the nearly 100 years since then. By assigning different artists disparate sections of the human form (head, torso, legs), sometimes bold, sometimes silly, sometimes gorgeous creations can be born, and the Santa Fe Community Gallery’s Rod Lambert understands this well—it’s why he adopted Exquisite Corpse for the gallery’s 10th anniversary exhibit of the same name, pulling in over 100 New Mexico artists to participate.

“We were coming up on our 10-year anniversary, and we were realizing at the end of last year that we needed to figure out what we were going to do for the anniversary—it’s kind of a big deal,” Lambert tells SFR. “I had an idea to do a timeline of the exhibits we’ve done, but my boss Debra Garcia y Griego thought it would be more interesting and fun to have artists participate in a dynamic way, so we invited every artist who has ever participated in a theme exhibit.”

Like the game’s founders, Lambert as-

signed artists either head, torso or legs, and submissions rolled in from across the state from the likes of Nocona Burgess, Erin Currier, Israel Francisco Haros Lopez, Sarah Stolar, Joel Nakamura and many more. Lambert points out that all the pieces are original and never seen anywhere else and, during the run of the show, that patrons can assemble any three pieces they wish for $150. Exquisite Corpse also serves to highlight some of the nearly 900 artists who’ve exhibited in the Community Gallery since its inception.

“The artists are the reason why we’re successful, I think, and when they participate in an exhibit, they’re actually creating a piece specifically for that show; they’re not bringing in something that pre-exists,” Lambert adds. “So a lot of them have been pushing their studio practice with us for years—trying new media, trying new content. We wanted to give a tribute to them.”

Mission accomplished. (Alex De Vore) EXQUISITE CORPSE: A CELEBRATION OF 10 YEARS 5-7 pm Friday Oct. 26. Free.

Through Jan. 17. Santa Fe Community Gallery, 201 W Marcy St., 955-6705

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HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. Jazzy hoe-downs, traditional tunes and Western swing.

7:30 pm, $22 JIM ALMAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Jazzy R&B on guitar and harmonica.

8 pm, free OPEN MIC NIGHT Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Signups start at 6:30 pm, and everyone who performs gets a recording afterward.

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

6:30-9:30 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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DHARMA TALK BY MATTHEW KOZAN PALEVSKY Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 The president of Upaya Zen Center speaks after a 15-minute meditation.

5:30 pm, free FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR TEENS Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Join Guadalupe Credit Union to learn about basic money management and how to open a bank account.

4:30 pm, free PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 It is what it sounds like.

10:45 am, free READINGS & CONVERSATIONS: DAVID HARVEY WITH LAURA FLANDERS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Harvey’s books include Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason and A Brief History of Neoliberalism.

Flanders is a journalist who seeks to raise radical spirits through interviews with people trying to shift power dynamics in politics, economics and the arts. The two have a chat.

7 pm, $5-$8

HONING IMPROV SKILLS Santa Fe Improv 1213 Mercantile Road, Suite D, 395-0580 Need some pointers on how to act on your feet, whether on a stage or every day? (See SFR Picks, page 19).

6 pm, $25 INTRODUCTION TO ZEN Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Eeryone is welcome to a weekly class that explores Zen meditation.

5 pm, free

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A group of 10 innovative artists exhibit in Hand / Eye at form & concept Gallery this week, turning photography on its ear and blurring the lines between sculpture, multimedia and other mediums. Opening Friday; see full listing on page 22.

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

6:30 pm, $25

DANCE DANCE FOR ALL ABILITIES AND LEVELS Cornell Rose Garden Galisteo St & W Cordova Road Dance for flexibility, balance, grace, creativity, socializing and joy. It’s the last one till spring, so enjoy! RSVP is required, so call 577-8187 or email instructor Claire Rodill at crodill99@gmail.com.

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EVENTS CHILDREN’S CHESS CLUB Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Join other kids to play against for a nice mix of quiet thought and roaring laughter, and play as many games as time allows.

Volunteers usually provide a short lecture around 6 pm.

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FULL MOON WATER WHEEL CEREMONY Frenchy's Field Osage Ave. and Agua Fría St. Pray for moisture, bless the waters and offer up items for blessings.

5 pm, free FUSATSU Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 An ancient Zen Buddhist ceremony of atonement, purification and renewal of vows; the ritual includes chanting, full prostrations and the ringing of bells. Arrive by 5:20 pm to be polite.

5:30 pm, free

HAUNTED JEMEZ Cañon, New Mexico Cañon resident Sharon Chism's half-acre of private property features several spooky scenes on a circular path. Once you turn off Highway 4 to get on Highway 485, drive about 3 miles until you see a line of pumpkins near a graveyard.

10 am-8 pm, free SANTA FE GIRLS' SCHOOL ADMISSIONS OPEN HOUSE Santa Fe Girls' School 310 W. Zia Road, 820-3188 Discover what makes the school so special. Meet teachers and tour the school.

6-8 pm, free

MUSIC BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards on piano.

6:30 pm, free BOB MOSES Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 A Brooklynite sound that appeals equally to club-goers and rock music fans.

7 pm, $23-$25 CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenco and classical Spanish guitar.

7 pm, free

BARBARA HAND CLOW: REVELATIONS OF THE AQUARIAN AGE The Ark 133 Romero St., 988-3709 A unique new novel is a contemporary journey into the esoteric mysteries of divine marriage, sacred sexuality and the transformative power of holy relics.

6-8 pm, free JOHN LOCKLEY: LEOPARD WARRIOR Santa Fe Ctr for Spiritual Living 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 A journey into the African teachings of ancestry, instinct and dreams.

1:30 pm, free MARTHA MENDOZA: SEAFOOD FROM SLAVES Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 The Santa Fe Council on International Relations presents a discussion by investigative journalist Mendoza about her groundbreaking work investigating slavery in the Thai seafood sector.

5:30 pm, $10-$15

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MICHAEL McGARRITY: RESIDUE: A KEVIN KERNEY NOVEL Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 McGarrity has penned a quest for the truth which untangles a complex history of dark family secrets, cold-blooded murders, rogue cops and a plane crash.

6:30 pm, free NEW ORLEANS DURING THE CIVIL WAR St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Jake Green considers the impacts of the Civil War with a focus on the martial law administered by Union General Benjamin Butler.

1 pm, $15 NICOLE KRAUSS: FOREST DARK Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 In this novel, two unrelated characters journey into the Israeli desert to find answers.

Hosted by the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival.

7 pm, free PALACE IN THE RAW New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Matthew Barbour examines the weirdest finds among the 700,000 artifacts recovered during archaeological excavations near the Plaza. Arrive at 1 pm for an open house at the museum, too.

3 pm, free

HAUNTED JEMEZ Cañon, New Mexico On Cañon resident Sharon Chism's roughly half-acre of private property, take a walk around and check out almost two dozen animated and non animated creatures on a circular path. Once you turn off Highway 4 to get on Highway 485, drive about 3 miles until you see a line of pumpkins.

10 am-8 pm, free HIGHER EDUCATION OPEN HOUSE Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Meet with representatives from SFCC, New Mexico Highlands University, Northern New Mexico College, University of New Mexico and Bellevue University.

6-8 pm, free SANTA FE GHOST TOUR Various locations Guide Stefanie Beninato leads a downtown tour. No gimmicks—just good stories!

Reservations are required, so head to swguides.com or call 988-8022.

6:30-8:30 pm, $13-$20

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O2 SWING NIGHT Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar Apothecary 133 W San Francisco St, 986-5037 Get your swing on. There's a lesson from 8-9 pm, then get swinging at 9 pm.

8 pm, $10

EVENTS AUTO TOUR OF JEMEZ CANYON AND THE RIO GRANDE BOSQUE Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 The botanical garden and guide Ken Collins host an auto excursion through Jemez Canyon and then to the restored Rio Grande Bosque at the Hyatt Tamaya Resort in Santa Ana. Meet in the parking lot of the botanical garden and leave in a carpool.

9 am-5:30 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Pub quiz!

7 pm, free GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Temple Beth Shalom 205 E Barcelona Road, 982-1376 The Jewish Care Program offers a grief and loss support group; anyone over 18 years can join and participate.

Please register with Ya’el Chaikind at 303-3552.

1-2 pm, free

FILM THE EYESLICER HALLOWEEN SPECIAL Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 The cinematic equivalent of an acid trip down the Halloween aisle at Party City.

7 pm, $10

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

6:30 pm, free J REYNOLDS AND THE HIGH VIBES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Psychedelic funk rock.

8 pm, free JIM ALMAND El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Rock, blues and folk.

7 pm, free JONO MANSON Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Rootsy rock 'n' roll.

5:30 pm, free KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Sing some Sting.

10 pm, free LATIN THURSDAY Café Mimosa 513 Camino de los Marquez, 365-2112 Check out a DJ dance party at an unlikely locale features VDJ Dany spinning salsa, merengue, nachata, cumbias y más.

9 pm, $5 PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free

REBECCA ARSCOTT & ONE HEART FYAH Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Reggae, pop and soul.

10 pm, free ROD WELLES Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Rock 'n' blues.

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

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THEATER THE REVOLUTIONISTS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Exploring the French Revolution, Lauren Gunderson’s play features four women who are both perpetrators and victims: Marie Antoinette, Marianne Angelle, Charlotte Corday and Olympe de Gouges.

7:30 pm, $15-$25 SANTA FE DEAD: MUTATION Santa Fe Place Mall 4250 Cerrillos Road, 988-4262 After last year's popular interactive theater-escape room-haunted house-zombie apocalypse hybrid, the Santa Fe Playhouse revives its live-action video game full of Nerf guns, mystery-solving and jump-scares. Head to santafeplayhouse.org for tix.

6:40-9 pm, $20-$25 UNCLE VANYA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 The Oasis Theatre Company, which really knows how to put on classical theater, presents the classic Anton Chekhov tale of love and jealousy in the country. Call 917-439-7708 for tix.

7:30 pm, $22-$25 YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU New Mexico School for the Arts 275 E Alameda St., 310-4194 Beautiful young Alice falls in love with strapping young Kirby, and all seems well until it's time for her to invite her well-heeled boyfriend home to meet her weird-as-heck family.

7 pm, $5-$10

WORKSHOP COSTUME WORKSHOP Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Bring your machine and sewing tools along with your project materials for help from instructor Karen Billard.

5 pm, $20 HONING IMPROV SKILLS Santa Fe Improv 1213 Mercantile Road, Suite D, 395-0580 Actor and instructor Scott Plunket has some tips (see SFR Picks, page 19).

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3-6 pm, free AUTRY MACIAS: SANTOS DEL DESIERTO Good Folk Gallery 141 Lincoln Ave., 983-1660 New tin sculptures by artist Macias include adornments of religious iconography with homage to archetypal desert dwellers (see AC, page 27).

5 pm, free DIA DE LOS MUERTOS Poeh Cultural Center and Museum 78 Cities of Gold Road, 455-3334 The 10th annual exhibit features the works of 21 established local artists with jewelry, painting, sculpture and photography.

5 pm, free EXQUISITE CORPSE: A CELEBRATION OF 10 YEARS Community Gallery 201 W Marcy St., 955-6705 Approximately 140 participating artists contributed a body part. Everyone wins. Through Jan. 17, 2019 (see SFR Picks, page 19) 5 pm, free FACT & AFFECT: REALISM AND THE SUBJECTIVE Argos Studio & Santa Fe Etching Club 1211 Luisa St., 988-1814 A two-person exhibit features the work of early-career artists Zienna Brunsted Stewart and Vahn Phan. Through Nov. 18.

5:30-7:30 pm, free HAND / EYE form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Artists merge photography and craft mediums, incorporating a wide array of materials that push photographic imagery into the real world.

Through Dec. 31.

5-7 pm, free HEIDI LOEWEN: SCULPTURE BASED ON A TRIP TO MALLORCA, SPAIN Heidi Loewen Fine Art 315 Johnson St., 988-2225 See what Europe inspired her to create.

5 pm, free HORNDESKI’S AUTUMNAL COLORED PAINTINGS Horndeski Contemporary 716 Canyon Road, 231-3731 Painter Gregory Horndeski has worked fire into his paintings. Through Dec. 29.

5 pm, free LEAH SIEGEL, JOSEPH GRIFFO AND ZOE VILES natasha Santa Fe 403 S Guadalupe St., 913-9236 Three artists present unique takes on photography and plaster casting. Through Nov. 30.

5 pm, free

MATTHEW SIEVERS: NEW PAINTINGS Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., 954-9902 Using both a brush and a palette knife, Sievers sharply contrasts soft passages with bold, expressive impasto textures.

5-7 pm, free ON EXHIBIT: DESIGNS THAT DEFINED THE MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 This “exhibit about exhibits” reveals how presentation techniques evolved over the years. Through Aug. 31, 2019.

5 pm, free SKELETONS, SCAMPS AND SCALLYWAGS Cheri O'Brien Fine Art 618 Canyon Road, 425-308-2061 An eclectic group of talented artists present artwork inspired by the celebration of life and death. Through Nov. 12.

5 pm, free TRICKS AND TREATS: A HALLOWEEN SHOW Ventana Fine Art 400 Canyon Road, 983-8815 Explore both the dark and whimsical sides of modernist Paul-Henri Bourguignon. The paintings in this exhibition are sometimes ominous and sometimes humorous, in true trick-or-treat fashion. Through Nov. 12.

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES AN EVENING WITH BEN CRYSTAL El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Crystal explores the 400-year-old sound and pronunciation of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

7 pm, $10-$15 CONVERSATIONS WITH COLLECTIONS New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 An intimate viewing and discussion about the photographs in the Museum of Art’s photography collection.

Free with museum admission.

1 pm, $6-$12 CREATIVEMORNINGS SHINES A SEARCHLIGHT ON THE GLOBAL THEME OF HONESTY New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Coffee, bagels and networking with a talk by Sara Solovitch, executive editor of Searchlight New Mexico.

9-10 am, free DEAN'S LECTURE SERIES: ‘DEEDS OF BALANCED VENGEANCE’ AND THE END OF THE ILIAD St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 Emily Austin of the University of Chicago examines Homer's epic poem. It's in the Peterson Student Center's Great Hall.

7:30 pm, free

STEVEN OVITSKY: THE JÜDISCHER KULTURBUND The Screen 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-6494 The director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival discusses the Culture League of German Jews, founded in 1933, which hired hundreds of thousands of Jewish people who were fired from their jobs in German cultural organizations.

3 pm, $10

EVENTS DAVID COPHER’S ANNUAL HALLOWEEN PARTY AND FUNDRAISER Courtyard by Marriott Santa Fe 3347 Cerrillos Road, 473-2800 Rock 'n' roll from the John Kurzweg Band and The Blues Divas Band is the perfect backdrop for a costume contest, complete with prizes. All proceeds go to Santa Fe Need and Deed.

8 pm, $20 GARDEN SPROUTS PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Head to the garden's outdoor classroom for a hands-on program for 3-5 year olds and their caregivers.

10-11 am, $5 HAUNTED JEMEZ Cañon, New Mexico Take a walk around a halfhour private property to check out almost two dozen creatures on a circular path.

Once you turn off Highway 4 to get on Highway 485, drive about 3 miles until you see a line of pumpkins near a graveyard on the right.

10 am-8 pm, free

FILM SOUND AND SPECTACLE: DOVETAIL ORCHESTRA SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 The musical group Dovetail Orchestra, led by Ross Hamlin, is at it again to play a live score to spooky, seasonally appropriate silent films.

6:30 pm, $15-$20 THE WISDOM OF THE BHAGAVAD GITA Santa Fe Meditation Circle 1807 Second St., Ste. 83, 988-4157 A talk by Self Realization Fellowship Brother Anandamoy expounds on Paramahansa Yogananda’s landmark translation of and commentary on the Bhagavad Gita.

6:30 pm, free

FOOD OKTOBERFEST DINNER Red Sage Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino, 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 819-2056 Red Sage has teamed up with Karbach Brewing Company for a delicious three-course meal. Make a rezzie.

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Welcome Home Santa Fe veterans share their stories through song at Lifesongs’ annual concert

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ince its founding in 2007, Lifesongs, a program of the nonprofit Academy for the Love of Learning, has worked to create bridges between elder community members of Santa Fe and younger generations. Largely focused on patients in hospice care, the program has done incredible work in helping to tell dignified, human stories that come from those of us with the most life experience, alleviating some of the dread surrounding one of the most natural chapters of life—death. Through stories, poetry and song, Lifesongs has always helped veterans from the community tell their stories, and the upcoming concert Homecoming: Songs and Stories of Service is its first series dedicated entirely to the service of veterans, and is set on dispelling fears surrounding yet another cultural bogey-

man: After the traumatic experiences of war, how do we welcome our veterans home?

SFR sat in on a casual rehearsal by some of Lifesongs’ facilitating artists as they worked on material for an upcoming concert. The setting was relaxed and domestic, a seated affair in the living room of Lifesongs director and co-founder Acushla Bastible’s home. Between run-throughs, the musicians reflected on the emotional weight of the lyrics, which are created in collaboration with veterans who worked with songwriters over months to craft lifetimes’ worth of tales into songs. But it wasn’t all dour, and the participants took advantage of any opportunity to crack a joke and laugh; what could have been somber, stifling tunes were often jaunty and celebrated the vets having lived to tell their tales.

Lifesongs Music Director Jeremy Bleich nimbly picked a fiery bluegrass solo

that inspired a tapping toe, even when married with singer JJ Otero’s wistful, affecting voice singing about featured veteran Sergeant Tony Molinar’s difficult transition back into civilian life after a tour in the Vietnam Conflict.

“You can’t see the dark without the light,” Bastible says. “In order to survive, when you reflect on things and make meaning out of them, it’s important to see both sides.”

That sentiment resonates when listening to the song “Lucky Guy,” written by featured veteran Bernie Armstrong in collaboration with facilitating artist Nathan Dunton, who expresses that Armstrong wanted his experiences in three foreign wars to be conveyed in a happy country style. Through a clerical error, Armstrong was called out of reserves to serve in Vietnam, where he flew fighter planes after already serving in both World War II and Korea. His lifetime of service is unfathomable; and seeing as less than 20 percent of Armstrong’s class of cadets in World War II survived the conflict, it truly is an understatement to note how lucky he has been.

Another song, “The Reckoning,” was written by Command Sergeant Major Billie Russell with facilitating

artist Vanessa Torres McGovern, and it contrasts with Armstrong’s in its more somber tone. Russell was a trained combat medic who wanted to serve in Vietnam but was rejected from that ambition because of her gender. Instead, she trained medics on the homefront while working as a nurse at the Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco.

She helped thousands of wounded coming home from such terrors as the Tet Offensive, spurring her on to protest the war in her class “A” uniform—while serving, which drew ire from protesters and her superiors alike. Torres McGovern has created a strong bond with Russell, a crucial part of Lifesongs’ core philosophy.

“That’s where the song lives, feeling the connection with her as a person,” McGovern explains. “What a privilege to hold the story of this person. We’re not anthropologists, we’re encouraged to bring ourselves to the relationship.”

Veterans can feel lost well into their old age while we as a society struggle to learn the language of what they’ve been through. Lifesongs and its upcoming concert seek to teach that language through the relatability of song and storytelling.

“We want people to serve for us, but when they come back, we’re not really prepared for what that meant,” Bastible says. “In a lot of tribal and Native communities, people have homecoming ceremonies. There are ways in which people are re-integrated into the community. Because there’s nothing here, we don’t know how to do it and veterans don’t know how to do it.”

These songs, evidence of reintegration and connection with the community, prove that perhaps we can learn how to do it better.

HOMECOMING: SONGS AND STORIES OF SERVICE 7 pm Friday Oct. 26. Admission by donation. James A Little Theatre, 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6300

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Come out with your costumes and bring your friends.

7:30 pm, $5 BARACUTANGA Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 World music, Latin tunes and sultry South American beats.

10 pm, free BIRD THOMPSON The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road, 557-6435 Adult contemporary.

10 am, 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 DANNY DURAN & SLO BURNIN Turquoise Trail Bar at Buffalo Thunder 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 877-848-6337 New ‘n’ classic country y más.

9:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards: Doug starts, Bob takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free FRITZ AND THE BLUE JAYS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll.

9-11 pm, $5 HOMECOMING: SONGS AND STORIES OF SERVICE James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Lifesongs' annual concert lifts the stories of veterans (see Music, page 23).

7-9 pm, free JAM & CO. Starlight Lounge at Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 428-7777 Jazz.

6 pm, $2 JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free MINNESOTA Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 EDM with a foundation in dubstep and hip-hop.

9 pm, $26-$30 MUSCLE BEACH, ARTICLE 15, MARROW MONGER AND FATHERS Ghost 2899 Trades West Road Muscle Beach brings the post-hardcore down from balmy, beachy Denver, and Fathers does about the same.

They're joined by locals Marrow Monger and Taos' Article 15.

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REGIONAL/LIQUID Shadeh Nightclub 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 819-2338 VDJ Dany has your cumbia, huapangos, Norteñas and more; DJ Poetics has hip-hop, top 40, dancehall, EDM, reggae, old-school and more.

10 pm, free RICHARD SMITH GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. Bluegrass, mainstream jazz, modern pop and rock and classical guitar.

7:30 pm, $20 RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free THE SHINERS CLUB JAZZ BAND Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Jazz and ragtime tunes.

6 pm, free SMOOTH Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Santana tribute.

10 pm, free STORM LARGE Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Sultry Portland-based vocalist sings American songbook classics, Broadway tearjerkers, rock anthems and more.

7:30 pm, $35-$55 TGIF RECITAL: SCOTT MONTGOMERY First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 A varied program on organ.

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

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

9:30 pm, free WHISKEY DIABLO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country, jazz and chainsaw rock 'n' roll fusion.

8:30 pm, free

THEATER SANTA FE DEAD: MUTATION Santa Fe Place Mall 4250 Cerrillos Road, 988-4262 The Santa Fe Playhouse revives its live-action video game full of Nerf guns, mystery-solving and jump-scares. santafeplayhouse.org has all your info and tix.

6:40-9 pm, $20-$25 SANTA FE IMPROV: BANG! Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Performers from Santa Fe Improv work as a team (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, $10

THE REVOLUTIONISTS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Marie Antoinette, Marianne Angelle, Charlotte Corday and Olympe de Gouges are locked up in prison, facing execution.

Tensions and insights ensue.

7:30 pm, $15-$25 SANTA FE SEVEN: A QUINN FONTAINE EXPERIENCE Center Stage 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 Bella Gigante hosts a special evening of live comedy.

7:30 pm, $15-$25 THEATER OF DEATH VI: INVASION! Engine House Theater 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Local impresario Joe West and his cohorts present a brand-new series of original short plays with music in an evening of comedy and the macabre (see 3Q, page 25).

8 pm, $20 UNCLE VANYA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 The Oasis Theatre Company presents the classic Anton Chekhov tale of love and jealousy in the country. Call 917-439-7708 for tix.

7:30 pm, $22-$25 YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU New Mexico School for the Arts 275 E Alameda St., 310-4194 Beautiful young Alice falls in love with strapping young Kirby, and all seems well until it's time for her to invite her well-heeled boyfriend home to meet her weird family.

7 pm, $5-$10

SAT/27 ART OPENINGS BARBARA HENDRICKS Tresa Vorenberg Goldsmiths 656 Canyon Road, 988-7215 The jeweler's pieces are just unique enough to have personality, but classic enough to earn a rightful place as family heirlooms. Meet the artist at a reception.

3-5 pm, free HEIDI LOEWEN: SCULPTURE BASED ON A TRIP TO MALLORCA, SPAIN Heidi Loewen Fine Art 315 Johnson St., 988-2225 The ceramics maven does it again. See what Europe inspired her to create.

11 am-6 pm, free RED LOTUS: A HOLIDAY ART SHOW AT PETE’S PLACE Santa Fe Interfaith Shelter 2801 Cerrillos Road, 795-7494 The artists of the Interfaith Shelter (Pete’s Place) host a holiday show with great art, music, and food, providing a chance for the community to view and support the artists’ and the work of the shelter, and enjoy food and music too.

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RETURN OF THE CREATURE FEATURE: AN ART INSTALLATION AND HALLOWEEN PARTY Dandelion Guild 1925 Rosina St., Ste. H, 820-0847 In addition to autumn-centric and Halloween-spooky art from local makers, fortunes will be told by the beautiful and mystical Kasandra M. Dress up in your best garb at 2 pm for a costume contest, where prizes are awarded for most frightening, funniest and most original.

Noon-6 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES RAY JOHN DE ARAGÓN: HAUNTED SANTA FE op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 From arroyos to the basement of the PERA Building, take a frightening journey into the unknown and the forbidden world of phantasms.

2 pm, free ARTIST TALK: HAND / EYE form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 An interactive tour of the group exhibition features a number of the featured artists.

2-3 pm, free

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

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS BIRD WALK WITH ROCKY TUCKER Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve 27283 W Frontage Road, La Cienega, 471-9103 Learn about the diversity of birds from volunteer bird guide Tucker.

8-10 am, free CARLOS GILBERT ELEMENTARY HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL Carlos Gilbert Elementary 300 Griffin St., 467-4700 Carlos Gilbert Elementary hosts its annual carnival, complete with fun for the whole family.

Noon-5 pm, free EL MUSEO WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Part fine arts market, part flea market, all full of treasures.

8 am-3 pm, free GRIEF RECOVERY SUPPORT Berardinelli McGee Event Center 1320 Luisa St, 984-8600 Join a free grief support group led by grief recovery specialist Eileen Joyce; just let her know you're coming ahead of time at 428-0670.

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Musician Joe West scratches his theatrical itch this week with his Theater of Death show (8 pm Friday and Saturday Oct. 26 and 27; also 3 pm Saturday and Sunday Oct. 27 and 28. $20. Engine House Theater, 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743), an annual Madrid occurrence that taps into the proud and spooky history of the French Gran Guignol theater tradition. West, of course, is no stranger to stage antics from his many musical projects, but there’s something extra fun and silly about his writing and direction for Theater of Death that just plain works.

You might say we were dying to know a little more, so we took the call. (Alex De Vore) What year is this for Theater of Death, and did you imagine it would become what it’s grown into back when you started?

Sixth year. My hopes when we started were that every year … more people would become interested and that we’d attract talented people with experience. This year seems to be a better evolution—we have a really great technical director, great costumes, great set designers; we have a master electrician, great actors—people who have a theater background. At first it was a little bit flaky or difficult, but every year it has evolved into more talent showing up. During the year we have people showing interest, and we’ll have some Santa Fe talent, but more and more it’s people from the Madrid-Cerrillos area.

What topic did you choose for this year? We’re hearing rumors it might be aliens or an adaptation of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space?

It’s aliens this year. We changed our theme—we were going to do something else, but it ended up being a difficult choice: a freak show with a circus.

But it got difficult with space and too many moving parts, but we may do that next year. We had a couple original scripts in hand that dealt with the alien theme, and it seems to have been a good choice, because we’re having fun. It’s not an adaptation of Plan 9, but it’s maybe in the spirit of it.

We do have an unproduced Ed Wood screenplay, and we’ve flirted with the idea of that. There’s a fellow in town whose father just passed away and who did music for Ed Wood, so he has these scripts with handwritten notes, so we have this un-produced screenplay that I’ve been adapting into a play, but that’ll be down the line.

Homecoming: Songs and Stories of Service Friday, October 26 7:00pm-9:00pm FREE • Register online for tickets The James A. Little Theater at the New Mexico School for the Deaf The views presented at this event are not necessarily those of NMSD

How did you land on aliens?

It seemed timely with all the talk about border walls and immigration; dealing with aliens coming in from other planets. It’s from the headlines.

There’s a bit of a moral to it—a subversive, leftwing, communist moral.

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THE CALENDAR HAUNTED JEMEZ Cañon, New Mexico Cañon resident Sharon Chism's roughly half-acre of private property features several spooky scenes outdoors on a circular path. Once you turn off Highway 4 to get on Highway 485, drive about 3 miles until you see a line of pumpkins on the right.

10 am-8 pm, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Arts and crafts from a juried group of local artists.

8 am-2 pm, free SANTA FE GHOST TOUR WITH PETER SINCLAIRE Hotel St. Francis 210 Don Gaspar Ave. Both believers and skeptics can enjoy a leisurely walking event to hear about the many ghosts of Santa Fe. Reservations are required, so call 983-7774.

5:45-7:45 pm, $17 SPIRITS OF NEW MEXICO'S PAST El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Step back in time and encounter a diverse assortment of characters from New Mexico's illustrious and often little-known past. Listen to their stories and experience intriguing bygone events. Lit by lantern light and campfires, the historic site takes on a Halloweeney atmosphere.

5-9 pm, $6-$8

FILM CONSCIOUS LIGHT Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 A documentary about Avatar Adi Da Samraj and his way of spiritual realization. For more info, call 795-9416.

3 pm, $8-$10 SOUND AND SPECTACLE: DOVETAIL ORCHESTRA SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Dovetail Orchestra, led by Ross Hamlin, is at it again to play a live score to silent films. With Halloween approaching, “Veil” features another round of eclectic and seasonally appropriate silent short films and animations from 1905-1931.

6:30 pm, $15-$20

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

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

6 pm, free CHANGO Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Danceable cover tunes.

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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 CONTROLLED BURN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' blues.

9-11 pm, $5 DANCE MONSTER HALLOWEEN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 A huge night of bass music, dancing, and the supernormal with Wolf + Lamb, Job Jobbse and more, plus a $300 costume contest with $100 for two runner-ups.

9 pm, $25-$30 THE DUSTJACKETS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk ‘n’ Americana from Amarillo, Texas.

1 pm, free EARTH ALIEN'S HALLOWEEN DANCE PARTY Paradiso 903 Early St., Dance, trance, sway and groove to the tunes of Earth Alien (see SFR Picks, page 19).

8-10:30 pm, $10 FIRE SATURDAYS Shadeh Nightclub 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 819-2338 VDJ Dany spins cumbia, reggaeton, bachata, salsa y más; DJ 12 Tribe has your hip-hop, top 40, EDM, R&B and more.

10 pm, free GARY PAUL Upper Crust Pizza (Eldorado) 5 Colina Drive, Eldorado, 471-1111 Enjoy colorful tall tales and enchanting story-songs.

5:30-8:30 pm, free HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST WITH WHISKEY DIABLO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Country, jazz and chainsaw rock 'n' roll fusion band, and do not skimp on your costume. We recommend moving parts, lights, something battery-powered and at least two props if you want to dream of competing.

8 pm, $10 THE HIGH DESERT PLAYBOYS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Original and classic country.

8 pm, free THE IYAH BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Reggae on the deck.

3 pm, free JERONIMO KEITH BAND Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 A modern take on ‘70s-style American blues and rock.

10 pm, free

JOHN RANGEL QUARTET El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 A piano-led jazz quartet.

7:30 pm, free JONO MANSON La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Funky rock 'n' roll originals.

7 pm, free KARAOKE Golden Cantina Lounge 10-B Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3313 Tonight’s suggestion: “The Monster Mash.” No one will hate you, we promise.

9 pm, free LOS PRIMOS MELØDICOS Eldorado Hotel and Spa 309 W San Francisco St., 988-4455 Afro-Cuban, romantic and traditional Latin music.

8 pm, free NEXT 2 THE TRACKS Santa Fe Brewing Eldorado 7 Caliente Road, Eldorado, 466-6938 Outlaw country.

6 pm, free NIGHTMARE ON RUFINA STREET Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 A Halloween showcase featuring local bands doing special covers sets from your fav bands. Cole Bee Wilson presents as Third Eye Blind, Beezer does Weezer, Future Scars is The Cranberries and Ten Ten Division as No Doubt.

Plus a Halloween art market!

Dang!

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

7 pm, free POWER DRIVE USA Turquoise Trail Bar at Buffalo Thunder 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 877-848-6337 Rock, soul and oldies.

9:30 pm, free REVIVAL OF THE FITTEST Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 Jazz, swing and roots.

9:30 pm, free RON ROUGEAU The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Acoustic classic rock.

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

8 pm, free TRACY GRAMMER GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. Pure, beautiful, and often humorous folk tunes.

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little more than six years ago, Santa Fean Autry Macias was living in Los Angeles, working in fashion and hating every minute of it.

“I had an office in a factory that I wouldn’t call a sweatshop,” Macias tells SFR, “but it was a bunch of immigrants being underpaid.”

So she quit.

She wound up working as a bartender and crafting those complicated chalk drawings for Trader Joe’s signage; but, she says, there was really no reason for her to continue living in LA. She talked her husband into moving back to Santa Fe, but says she still felt something was missing right up until about a year and a half ago.

“I had drawn my whole life, but I didn’t like drawing anymore,” she says.

“And I was feeling bad about not making art. I hadn’t really made a lot of art since college for myself, and it just came to me: tin. It didn’t seem like a craft that was going to be super-involved or hard to learn—which, it turns out, is not true.”

According to Macias, the tin community in Santa Fe is small and insular, with older artisans opting to keep their trade secrets. But when she met local tinsmith Justin Gallegos Mayrant (whose tin designs graced SFR’s Santa Fe Manual a few years back), she finally had her in.

“I was lucky to find Justin because he was super sweet,” Macias explains. “He hooked me up with his mentor [Michael E Griego] who made me some tools— most of the tools are handmade and not like leather tools you’ll find all over the place—and Justin just gave me pointers.”

The earlier days were rough, as Macias learned that tinwork requires no small amount of tools, chemicals and straight-up stamina. But she developed what she calls and obsession, adding that it’s something one needs when learning such a complicated craft. Still, the design lessons she picked up at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco lent

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themselves to her practice.

“I think design was the most important thing I learned in college,” she says.

“The placement, how it’ll look.”

To create her pieces, Macias starts with simple drawings which she transfers to transparency sheets used for overhead projectors. She makes them into stencils and applies them to tin sheets, and from there she cuts, punches, shapes,

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bruises, buffs, shines and paints the tin into her creations. There’s no specific term, she says, for her what she creates, though she calls them “ornamental” and “religious-adjacent.” Think of it like folk art, though Macias doesn’t wish to carry the title of folk artist.

“I don’t want to label myself anything,” she says, “but I do like how folk art is more loose, more fun, more casual; a lot of it is not so serious.”

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This colloquial feel can translate to designs like her early works, which featured a lowrider aesthetic, to the more recent pieces Macias unveils this week at Good Folk Gallery. For her new body, she created sacred hearts and other religious accoutrements—though she is not herself religious so much as a fan of the iconography—and animals and nature themes appear as well.

“I love religious imagery and playing off that in a more light-hearted way,” she says. “I don’t want to be anti-Catholic, although some people could take it that way with some of this stuff. But it’s not good-versus-evil, it’s light and dark—I don’t think things are as simple as good and evil. A lot of the imagery comes from nature.”

She’s also puro Santa Fe, which of course means pieces that feature cow skulls, chile or the Zia symbol brightly adorned with design embellishments and enamel paints. Still, as a white woman, Macias is aware of and sensitive to cultural appropriation, and links her upcoming show more to being raised in Santa Fe and regular exposure to the many cultural and artistic categories found therein than she does in trying to capitalize on anyone’s culture. Besides, her practice is hardly a money-maker— it’s really more for personal enrichment and catharsis.

“I couldn’t make them fast enough to make money,” she notes with a laugh. “Or in large enough quantities.”

Macias presides over her first solo show this week at Good Folk Gallery (formerly Davis Mather) at Marcy Street and Lincoln Avenue, and says she’s quite excited.

“It’s a really big deal for me,” Macias muses, “even if it’s just one little wall.”

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OPERA BREAKFAST LECTURE SERIES: PUCCINI'S LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Before you head to the Lensic to see the Italian composer's story about a badass woman in the American West, get to know the piece a little better.

9:30 pm, $5 THE MET LIVE IN HD: LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The "girl" of the title is one of Giacomo Puccini’s most appealing heroines—a strong, independent woman determined to win the man she loves. If you missed this at the Santa Fe Opera a few summers ago, here’s a chance to see a broadcast from the Met. 11 am and 6 pm, $15-$28 YOUNG VOICES OF THE SANTA FE OPERA FAMILY CONCERT Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 The program guides high school students interested in singing classical music. See what they've been up to lately in a family-friendly concert.

1 pm, free

THEATER ORDINARY PEOPLE Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 A staged reading presents the play that explores mental health, isolation and familial bonds. A post-performance Q&A features psychotherapist Phillip Retzky, and Katrina Koehler of Gerard’s House.

7:30 pm, $15 THE REVOLUTIONISTS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Exploring the social end of the French Revolution, playwright Lauren Gunderson’s play finds Marie Antoinette, Marianne Angelle, Charlotte Corday and Olympe de Gouges all locked up in a Jacobin prison, facing execution at the hands of the guillotine. Tensions and insights ensue.

7:30 pm, $15-$25 SANTA FE DEAD: MUTATION Santa Fe Place Mall 4250 Cerrillos Road, 988-4262 The Santa Fe Playhouse revives its live-action video game full of Nerf guns, mystery-solving and jump-scares.

This one comes highly recommended, we promise. Get info and tix: santafeplayhouse.org.

1-4 pm; 6:40-9 pm, $20-$25

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THEATER OF DEATH VI: INVASION! Engine House Theater 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Local impresario Joe West and his cohorts present a brand-new series of original short plays with music in an evening of comedy and the macabre (see 3Q, page 25).

3 and 8 pm, $20 UNCLE VANYA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 The Oasis Theatre Company presents the classic Anton Chekhov tale of love and jealousy in the country. Call 917-439-7708 for tix.

7:30 pm, $22-$25 YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU New Mexico School for the Arts 275 E Alameda St., 310-4194 Beautiful Alice falls in love with strapping Kirby, and all seems well until it's time for her to invite her well-heeled boyfriend home to meet her weird-as-heck family. Cue the chaos and hilarity.

7 pm, $5-$10

WORKSHOP CRYSTAL SOUND BATH MEDITATION CEREMONY Light Vessel Spa Santa Fe 199 Paseo de Peralta, Ste. D, 473-1200 Bring blankets, pillows and whatever else it takes to get comfortable for a crystal singing bowls sonic bath with John Patrick.

10-11 am, $20 INSIGHTFUL PLAY: A WORKSHOP ON GAMING MINDFULNESS Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Through embodied play and group dialogue, practice present moment awareness to explore how we author our everyday engagement. RSVP to salgiffin@gmail.com.

1-5 pm, $15

SUN/28 BOOKS/LECTURES HALLOWEEN AUTHOR TALKS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Spooktacular readings with local authors, plus local poets do some readin' too.

Live music, cocktails and costumes too! (Costumes not required, but encouraged.)

4-6 pm, $10 JOURNEYSANTAFE: JUDY CALMAN Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Hear from the staff attorney for the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance about the Gila River diversion, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, oil and gas news and more.

11 am, free

REV. LINDA C LOVING: A NEW SONG TO SING op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Loving, a breast cancer survivor, offers a resource to support women of all faith traditions.

2 pm, free YOUNG ADULT BOOK CLUB: ALL AMERICAN BOYS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Two teens—one black, one white—grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension.

Teens ages 14-18 are invited.

4 pm, free

DANCE SUNDAY TANGO DANCE Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Santa Fe Tango hosts a relaxed afternoon of dancing on a spacious, smooth dance floor. Come early and take a class; dancing starts at 2 pm and goes until 5 pm.

1-4 pm, $4-$15

EVENTS DHARMA DISCUSSION GROUP Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Meet fellow practitioners and share thoughts, feelings, and experiences on Buddhist practice.

7 pm, free DIA DE LOS MUERTOS PUBLIC CELEBRATION Museum of Int’l Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Decorate sugar skulls, make paper altars and experience calavera face painting.

Sample traditional Mexican treats and listen to Los Flores del Valle musical performance. Bring flowers, candles and/or a memento to add to the community altar.

1-4 pm, free EL MUSEO WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Part fine arts market, part flea market, all full of treasures.

9 am-5 pm, free HAUNTED JEMEZ Cañon, New Mexico Take a walk through almost two dozen creatures on a circular path on about a halfacre of private land. Once you turn off Highway 4 to get on Highway 485, drive about 3 miles until you see a line of pumpkins. Word to the wise: It’s family-friendly, but is actually most often enjoyed by adults, which we find dang charming. Visit the Gilman Tunnels while you’re there.

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LOUIS MONTAÑO CITY PARK MURAL RESTORATION Louis Montaño Park 730 Alto St. Help restore the historic murals along the river. Bring your favorite paintbrush.

Drinks and snacks will be provided. Park near the Boys and Girls Club at 730 Alto St. 12-6 pm, free MEDITATION & MODERN BUDDHISM: BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY FOR MODERN LIVING Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 87505, 292-5293 Explore how and why we need to understand our own mind and so be able to replace negative thoughts, feelings and actions with beneficial ones—instead of experiencing the frustration of trying to change others.

10:30 am-noon, $10

MUSIC BAILE DOMINGUERO Golden Cantina Lounge 10-B Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3313 Cumbia, Norteña, pasito satevo and reggaeton tunes with DJ Quico.

9 pm, free BORIS McCUTCHEON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Gothic Americana from everyone's favorite local farmer-cum-musician.

12 pm, free BRADLEY ELLINGBOE: STAR SONG United Church of Santa Fe 1804 Arroyo Chamiso, 988-3295 Nationally known composer Ellingboe conducts his choral work, "Star Song," based on the cosmic writings of Carl Sagan, Hildegard of Bingen, Billy Collins and others.

2 pm, free DIA DE LOS MUERTOS MARIACHI BENEFIT CONCERT Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Traditional Mexican music

by Lone Piñon, dance performances by Ballet Folklorico de Santa Fe, and mariachi music

by Mariachi Sonidos Del Monte. All ticket sales benefit the Playschool of the Arts.

2 pm, $20-$40 DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free GARY PAUL Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Enchanting, funny and touching story songs and tall tales.

6-9 pm, free GERRY CARTHY La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Traditional Irish tunes.

6 pm, free

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HIGH DESERT WINDS FALL CONCERT James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 The wind ensemble presents Bernstein's Divertimento and Danzon, Sousa's Pathfinder of Panama and Globe and Eagle marches, Walton's Crown Imperial coronation march, Ticheli's Cajun folk songs and Holsinger's On A Hymnsong of Philip Bliss.

2 pm, free KEY FRANCES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rockin' blues on the deck.

3 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Latin music.

7 pm, free PAT MALONE TRIO El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 The jazz guitarist is joined by John Blackburn on bass and Mark Clark on drums.

7 pm, free THE RUSS LIQUID TEST Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 New Orleanians fuse the raw vitality of classic funk and the inventive sound design of electronic production.

7 pm, $15-$18 SAW BLACK AND CLAY ENGLAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana, folk 'n' indie.

8 pm, free

THEATER OF DEATH VI: INVASION! Engine House Theater 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 A brand-new series of original short plays with music in an evening of comedy and the macabre (see 3Q, page 25).

3 pm, $20 UNCLE VANYA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 The Oasis Theatre Company presents the classic Anton Chekhov tale of love and jealousy in the country. Call 917-439-7708 for tix.

3 pm, $22-$25

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ORDINARY PEOPLE Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 A staged reading presents the play that explores mental health, isolation and familial bonds. There’s post-performance Q&A with psychotherapist Phillip Retzky, and Katrina Koehler, executive director of Gerard’s House.

2-4 pm, $15 SANTA FE DEAD: MUTATION Santa Fe Place Mall 4250 Cerrillos Road, 988-4262 The Santa Fe Playhouse brings back its popular interactive theater-escape room-haunted house-zombie apocalypse hybrid. Head to santafeplayhouse.org for tickets and info.

1-4 pm; 6:40-9 pm, $20-$25 THE REVOLUTIONISTS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Exploring the social end of the French Revolutions, Lauren Gunderson's play features four women who are both perpetrators and victims.

Marie Antoinette, Marianne Angelle, Charlotte Corday and Olympe de Gouges are locked up in a Jacobin prison, facing execution at the hands of the guillotine. Tensions and insights ensue.

3 pm, $15-$25

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WORKSHOP GARDEN OF YOUTH: MAKE YOUR OWN TINCTURES, FACIAL SCRUBS AND MASKS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Searching for a way to look and feel younger? Discover how to reduce the signs of aging.

1-3 pm, $25-$30 THE EASE AND JOY OF MORNINGS: A HALF-DAY MEDITATION RETREAT Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 9868518 Led by Maia Duerr, check out a quiet morning designed to introduce you to the art of zazen. Registration is required to assure your place—so touch base at registrar@ upaya.org.

9:30 am, free

Art, Antiques, Folk & Tribal Art, Books, Jewelry, Beads, Glass, Hides, Rugs and much much more!!

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BOOKS/LECTURES SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: INDIGENOUS MINDS & THE COMMONS OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Aural historian, writer, sound collage artist and musician Jack Loeffler lectures about the Commons—the concept that the earth belongs to everyone. Novel, huh? (See SFR Picks, page 19).

6 pm, $15

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Pub quiz!

7 pm, free HAUNTED JEMEZ Cañon, New Mexico Cañon resident Sharon Chism's roughly half-acre of private property features several spooky scenes outdoors.

Once you turn off Highway 4 to get on Highway 485, drive about 3 miles until you see a line of pumpkins near a graveyard on the right, and you've made it.

10 am-8 pm, free

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SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive org for planning group activism. ‘Tis the season, even more so than usual.

7 pm, free

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

7:30 pm, free BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 A disorienting dystopian masterpiece from experimental pop arsonists.

7 pm, $15-$17 COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ELIZABETH YOUNG Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery provides the standards, on piano, and Young joins in on violin.

6:30 pm, free JAMIE RUSSELL Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 9828474 Americana, pop and rock.

7 pm, free MELLOW MONDAYS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 DJ Sato spins some '90s house and hip-hop jams.

10 pm, free TREVOR BAHNSON Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 Folk ‘n’ Americana, with Karina Wilson on fiddle, Ryan Little on steel guitar and Mikey Chavez on percussion.

6 pm, free

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NT LIVE IN HD: FRANKENSTEIN Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Check out Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller (alternating between the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creation). These simulcasts are like seeing a play, but kinda better, in some ways.

7 pm, $19-$22 STAGED READING: PARTED WATERS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A play by Los Alamos playwright Robert F Benjamin features three generations of a Hispanic family in New Mexico with crypto-Jewish roots.

7:30 pm, $5-$10

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TUE/30 BOOKS/LECTURES PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Kids who are read to are generally smarter than kids who aren't. Get 'em learnt!

10:30 am, free

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 9836756 Put on your best tango shoes and join in (or just watch).

7:30 pm, $5

EVENTS BEFORE I DIE NEW MEXICO FESTIVAL Berardinelli McGee Event Center 1320 Luisa St, 984-8600 An opportunity for open discussion and reflection about end-of-life issues.

Events include a death doula panel discussion, insight about legacy information and estates, a look at after-death communication, information about medical aid in dying and more. Get more info at beforeidienm.com.

3-8:30 pm, free FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS Friendship Club 1316 Apache Ave., For those who are underweight, overweight, or otherwise struggling with food, a new faith-based 12-step group is available.

6:30 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Pub quiz!

8 pm, free HAUNTED JEMEZ Cañon, New Mexico Cañon resident Sharon Chism's roughly half-acre of private property features several spooky scenes outdoors.

Once you turn off Highway 4 to get on Highway 485, drive about 3 miles until you see a line of pumpkins near a graveyard on the right.

10 am-8 pm, free METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A Buddhist support group for sharing life experiences of illness and loss in a variety of its forms.

10:30 am, 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.

Divide and conquer!

8:30 am, free

YASMIN RADBOD SINGLE RELEASE AND BENEFIT FOR GIRLS INC. Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. A costume contest, bellydancers, face painting, the premiere of musician Radbod's "So Good" music video, raffles, live graffiti artists and much more. The event is free, but a $10 donation is suggested, and money goes to Girls Inc. 8 pm, free

FILM WOMEN'S FILM SERIES: IRON JAWED ANGELS CCA Santa Fe 1050 Old Santa Fe Trail Director Kata von Garnier tells the story of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, two young suffragettes who risk their own freedom for the suffrage movement and change a nation forever.

7 pm, $10

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

6:30 pm, free BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 9825511 Honky-tonk and Americana.

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

5-8 pm, free BLUEGRASS JAM Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 It's a bluegrass jam.

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

8 pm, $5 CARNAGE THE EXECUTIONER Shadeh Nightclub 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 819-2338 When he's not teaching kids how to beatbox or working as a youth counselor, the Minnesota-based emcee is cutting down his opponents in rap battles and blowing minds.

8 pm, $7 CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free CLOUD NOTHINGS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Indie rock songs that welcome pop warmly without sounding trite. With support from Shells and Sex Headaches.

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he nuanced, vividly complex flavors of quality mezcal distinguish it as one of the most exciting spirits on the market today. While there’s no denying the magic of tequila, its smokier, wilder cousin is making waves in the cocktail community for its wide range of flavors, its propensity for mixing in various drinks and the high levels of artistry demonstrated by its craft distillers. But what is the difference between tequila and mezcal, and why drink it instead?

Mezcal has gotten a bad rap over the years. Like tequila, it is an agave-based spirit. Tequila can properly be termed a type of mezcal, just as bourbon is a type of whiskey. However, not all mezcals are tequilas—whereas the latter must legally be produced from 51 percent blue agave, the former can be made from any other varieties of the succulent, the most common of which is espadin.

The distinctions are made on the label, typically along with the village that is the source of production, in a marketing move similar to what you’d see on a bottle of fine wine from France. Village-labeled mezcal draws attention to the subtle differences created by different water sources, soils, distilling materials and styles employed by mezcaleros. Further, authentic tequila production is limited mostly to the western state of Jalisco, Mexico, while the best

mezcal is sourced from the southern state of Oaxaca—though it can be made anywhere in Mexico.

And while both are distilled from the piña, the heart of the agave plant, tequila is made by steaming the plant and then distilling in copper stills, whereas mezcal calls for cooking it inside a pit lined with hot rocks, wood and charcoal for a few days, until it becomes syrupy and smoky. It is then mashed, transferred to wooden vats to ferment, and distilled in copper stills or clay pots. While some mezcal producers have adopted a more modern, streamlined approach, there are plenty of examples of handcrafted, small-batch iterations. These are made in the pueblos of Oaxaca by mezcaleros who use uniquely traditional methods that haven’t changed in centuries. A word to the wise, though: Steer clear of anything with a worm in it; it’s just a marketing gimmick, and it negatively influences the taste of the spirit.

Mezcal is capable of demonstrating a wide range of unique flavors, from lightly fruity and floral to vegetal and herbaceous, all with a characteristic smoky edge. Here are a few of the top bottlings, that can be found in specialty wine stores such as La Casa Sena Wine Shop (in Sena Plaza, 125 E Palace Ave., 988-9232), Kokoman Fine Wine and Liquor (34 Cities of Gold Road, 455-2219) and Susan’s Fine Wine and Spirits (1105 S St. Francis Drive, 984-1582).

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Del Maguey VIDA de San Luis Del Rio, $35

Founded by Ron Cooper, an artist who splits his time between Ranchos de Taos and Oaxaca, Del Maguey is perhaps singlehandedly responsible for bringing handcrafted mezcal to America in the 1990s. He offers two major lineups of the spirit: the Vinos de Mezcal, which offers a spectrum of mezcals made from different types of agaves, and the Single Village series, which focuses on villages with a historic reputation for fine mezcal. Del Maguey is phenomenal mezcal on all levels, but for an entry-level approach, try the VIDA, an organic mixing mezcal from the village of San Luis del Rio. It’s fruit-forward, smoothly textured and highly approachable, not to mention an excellent option for mixing in cocktails.

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El Jolgorio Barril is not cheap at $131 a bottle, but it’s some of the best mezcal in the United States.

The $45 Nuestra Soledad Santiago Matatlán comes from six generations of mezcaleros.

Nuestra Soledad Santiago Matatlán, 2017, $45

The Cortés family has been producing mezcal for six generations in Oaxaca.

Their label, Nuestra Soledad, works with six different villages to highlight terroir-driven, handcrafted expressions of mezcal. Its name is a tribute to Our Lady the Virgin of Solitude, the patron saint of the city of Oaxaca. Santiago Matatlán is a village that sources its agave from a canyon almost 6,000 feet in elevation with incredible biodiversity. The espadin used to make this mezcal grows wild among other agave species such as tepeztate,

tobala and coyote. With hints of pepper, vanilla, tart cherry and notes of campfire smoke, this smooth spirit is perfect for sipping straight or on the rocks.

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El Jolgorio Barril, $131

One of the more fascinating aspects of mezcal is that it can be made from unique species of agave. While 90 percent of the spirit is made from espadin, there are over 50 different other varieties that can serve as base material for distilling. El Jolgorio is a boutique label started by that selfsame Cortés family of Nuestra Soledad in 2010. It highlights the top distillers in Oaxaca, 16 different families working in 10 different regions that use a variety of rare cultivars for their products. Only 800 to 2,000 bottles of each variety are produced, and each bottle is hand-labeled with the specifics of each batch. The high-quality, labor-intensive production is limited, so bottles ain’t cheap. However, they represent some of the best mezcal available in the United States, and their top bottlings taste simultaneously like the purest expression of the spirit, and unlike anything else in the world. Try the Barril, made from an agave that only grows at high elevations and is densely packed with sugar and very little water, yielding a citrusy, earthy mezcal of intense complexity with hints of cinnamon and blood orange. It’s delightful on the rocks with an orange peel garnish.

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The Poeh Cultural Center hosts its 10th annual Dia de los Muertos exhibit and celebration on Friday, featuring local artists established and new, young and old.

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Three Image Makers. Shelley Horton-Trippe: A Greater Sublime: 8 Poets / 8 Paintings.

The Wanderer: The Final Drawings of John Connell. All through Jan. 6.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St.,946-1000 The Black Place: Georgia O’Keeffe and Michael Namingha. Through Oct. 28.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Theresa Gray: Marking Time.

Through Oct. 28.

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 CineDOOM: Narratives of Native Film and Beyond.

Through Oct. 29. Holly Wilson: On Turtle’s Back; Rolande Souliere: Form and Content. Both through Jan. 27.

Darren Vigil Gray: Expanding Horizons; Meeting the Clouds Halfway. Both Through Feb. 16. Action/Abstraction Redefined. Through July 7.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART

632 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 Melting Pot/Melting Point.

Through Oct. 21.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West. Through Dec. 30. Maria Samora: Master of Elegance. Through Feb. 28.

What’s New in New: Selections from the Carol Warren Collection.

Through April 7. Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans. Through July 7.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Beadwork Adorns the World.

Through Feb. 3, 2019. Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru. Through March 10.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 GenNext: Future So Bright.

Through Nov. 25.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 The Land That Enchants Me So: Picturing Popular Songs of New Mexico. Through Feb. 28. Atomic Histories. Through May 26.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Shifting Light: Photographic

Perspectives. Through Nov. 4. Horizons: People & Place in New Mexican Art. Through Nov. 25. Good Company: Five Artists Communities in New Mexico. Through March 10.

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

POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 Dia de los Muertos Celebration: 5 pm Friday. In T’owa Vi Sae’we: ongoing.

EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Living history.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Dan Ostermiller: Gardens Gone Wild! Through May 11.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Casa Tomada (House Taken Over). Through Jan. 6.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry.

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Oh. Em. Gee. It’s been 40 years since John Carpenter’s original Halloween found Michael Myers and his Shatner mask (look it up, nerds) terrorizing Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her pals, and now he’s back in sequel-but-maybealso-kind-of-a-reboot form, and he’s up to his old tricks again.

The new Halloween comes to us courtesy of Carpenter and Curtis, who produce here, but also screenwriter/producer Danny McBride (yes, from Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals) and director David Gordon Green (an executive producer on Vice Principals). And whereas no one can say this entry is particularly great or anything, it does do itself a favor by cherry-picking elements from other films in the series, putting the kibosh on others and picking up in the wake of Michael’s escape from a mental institution— always an exciting premise.

Over the years, Laurie Strode has been preparing herself in case her arch enemy should ever return. She’s been firing guns and building traps and dabbling in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

That’s all well and good, and Curtis can definitely

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pull off tough, but it turns out that by also trying to prepare her daughter (Judy Greer) for the serial killer, she’s caused rifts in her family that are tough to heal. Enter her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak, who has mostly done TV before now) and her high school contemporaries played by ultra-attractive 20-somethings (who you just know are cruising for a bruising), a couple of podcast producers for some reason and a face or two from the original film, and you’ve really got something—namely, a horror flick that knows what it is, pays homage in all the right ways and understands when it’s time to not take itself too seriously.

Yes, there are jump-scares and a few moments of borderline hysterical gore, and these bits are fun, but Halloween truly excels in the sound design department. From nerve-wracking footsteps

just outside the door or the squish of a knife, to the subtle buzz of fluorescent lights or rhythmic breathing, whoever did Foley on this thing deserves an Oscar.

But we still don’t get our questions answered, and one always wonders why teenagers find themselves unable to resist the call of going to check out what that sound was upstairs. It’s just as well, though, and Halloween certainly proves a highlight in the series from both the nostalgic and throwback horror standpoints. This one’s for you, Carpenter fans, and everyone else who rents the original after they see this one first.

HALLOWEEN Directed by Green With Curtis and Matichak Violet Crown, Regal, R, 106 min.

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At one point in Damien Chazelle’s glorious First Man, Janet Armstrong (Claire Foy), the wife of famed astronaut Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling), dresses down some self-assured NASA administrators, comparing them to “a bunch of boys making models out of balsa wood.” Part of the genius of the La La Land director’s biopic about the first human to walk on the moon is that it effectively portrays both the majesty and the folly of the space program. Chazelle embodies that dichotomy with the inclusion of two poems: pilot John Gillespie Magee’s “High Flight,” which marvels at having “slipped the surly bonds of earth,” and Gil Scott-Heron’s 1970 recording of “Whitey on the Moon”: “I can’t pay no doctor bill / But Whitey’s on the moon / Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still / While Whitey’s on the moon.”

Adapted from James R Hansen’s biography of the same name, First Man is unambiguous on one issue: the bravery and ingenuity of the test pilots and astronauts who faced death daily for the sake of history. Even the best entries in the

First Man: For many of you, all we had to say was “Ryan Gosling,” probably.

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space-film genre tend to sterilize interstellar travel, often portraying it as sleek and futuristic.

First Man, better and more aggressively than any of its peers, conveys the grimy, harrowing mechanics of the early space program. Yes, there are scenes in which Chazelle pays homage to those cinematic predecessors, chiefly a portion of the Gemini 8 mission set to a waltz that’s an obvious paean to 2001: A Space Odyssey. But with the partial exception of the Apollo 11 moon shot, every rocket launch is filmed from a claustrophobic perspective inside the spacecraft, where every roar, shutter, and creak of the capsule carries palpable dread.

Chazelle shows the astronauts to be more than just guinea pigs strapped atop Roman candles. Armstrong, an engineering egghead and civilian test pilot, must make numerous life-ordeath decisions through his career; some demonstrate his intelligence and some call into question whether he has the right stuff. His courage and skill shine during a trio of action sequences, some of the most thrilling you’re likely to see this year. The film opens with Armstrong kissing the cosmos during a breathtaking—and failed—X-15 test flight. His courage under fire burns brightest during the aborted Gemini 8 mission, which ends with his craft violently tumbling through space.

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Finally, accompanied by Justin Hurwitz’ soaring orchestration, Armstrong navigates a gripping, poignant descent of the Eagle Module to the lunar surface.

Over the eight years covered in the film, the Armstrongs live with death, from those of nameless pilot friends to their cancer-stricken young daughter to the launchpad fire that incinerated the Apollo 1 crew. When Gosling occasionally becomes a brooding cipher, Foy is there to refocus the narrative on the emotional toll exacted by his heroic destiny. Aided by cinematographer Linus Sandgren’s handheld camerawork, much of First Man is a meditative portrait of a taciturn yet resolute hero whose achievements are less about one small step for a man than a giant leap for mankind. (Neil Morris) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 141 min.

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Robert Redford goes out with a bang in The Old Man & the Gun.

one, they’re both old and respectable dudes who did what they loved throughout his career. Old Man & the Gun is Redford’s much-ballyhooed final film, and it’s a fitting send-off for the end of a Hollywood legend’s long career.

The movie is fittingly about the end of Tucker’s career and his relationship with a woman named Jewel (Sissy Spacek). He’s a handsome, charming guy who cracks a delicious smile while revealing the big iron tucked in his overcoat.

There’s also the cop John Hunt (Casey Affleck) tasked with catching Tucker and his cohorts, who are played by Danny Glover and Tom Waits.

Affleck struggles with his respect for Tucker’s passion and suavity. Unsurprisingly, banks are robbed and consequences ensue, but since the principal characters are old, the fallout doesn’t seem too awful.

The relationships between these characters feels natural. Redford and Spacek’s chemistry is spot-on, with romantic moments between them subtle and charming, while Affleck and Redford’s dynamic is compelling—almost like a friendship instead of a cat-and-mouse rivalry. There’s a distinct nostalgic tone that remarkably doesn’t venture too far into the cultural context of the time; the music is upbeat and smooth, drawing you into the 1980s and setting the scene, but never shoving the pop culture of the day down your throat.

Yet the plot isn’t particularly cohesive, nor are there many moments of suspense. In one scene, Tucker’s in Dallas, then he’s in St. Louis and then he’s right back in Dallas again. Similarly, Hunt’s struggle with his respect for Tucker versus his professional obligation to catch a criminal isn’t as developed as it should be. Furthermore, it’s made obvious that Tucker’s going to get caught at some point, and his attempts at avoiding capture seem pointless as a result—this defuses much of the potential tension.

Towards the end, Redford sits on a horse wearing a thick poncho and a wide-brimmed hat. On the horizon, cop cars roll by as the night turns to dawn. Tucker is, in the end, still a cowboy, but it’s time for him to ride off into the sunrise. Perhaps that is melodramatic, but The Old Man & the Gun is swathed in sentiment, and is every bit about Redford as it is Tucker. (Layne Radlauer) Center for Contemporary Arts, PG-13, 93 min.

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It’s a little weird to make a Spider-Man movie without Spider-Man, but Tom Hardy and company come pretty close to awesome with Venom. See, the rights to Marvel Comics properties are basically a mess. Some studios own certain characters, others own other

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characters, and what you get is movies that are forced to navigate some seriously tricky licensing. That said, Venom is certainly a raucous good time, even if it ultimately feels a tad anemic, at least right up until the mid-credits scene (no spoilers, but you’re gonna wanna see it).

Hardy is Eddie Brock, a Vice-esque journalist who runs afoul of a bazillionaire and scruples-free scientist type named Carlton Drake (Nightcrawler‘s Riz Ahmed) the very same week he loses his job and girlfriend (a there but it doesn’t much matter Michelle Williams).

Seems Drake has been human-testing some crazy alien shit, and when a scientist played

by Jenny Slate (Parks and Recreation) develops a conscience, Eddie is thrust into a symbiotic relationship with a parasitic creature named Venom who can make him all strong and acrobatic and stuff.

It’s dumb, yeah, but the interplay between Eddie and Venom is both charmingly funny and kind of kickass—be it in moments wherein the pair sprints up buildings or climbs spacebound rockets or bites people’s heads off.

Hardy is oddly fantastic as a scared man coming to terms with his newfound lot in life, and Ahmed’s understated villain does get pretty creepy, we only wish they’d developed him a little more.

Fans of the comics will probably find more things to like than those walking in cold, but as far as comic book action movies go, Venom is certainly one of the more fun entries out there.

Director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) surely realized he had a wonderful opportunity to embrace more comedic elements here and ran with it, and good for him. Now, assuming you don’t have some chip on your shoulder about refusing to like dumb/fun comic book movies, it should be a breeze to sit back and watch the heads pop. Go nuts. (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 112 min.

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We can’t decide if everyone knows Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama or if not enough people do, although we hear tell that over 5 million fans on social media regularly check up on the contemporary art mastermind. She probably wouldn’t care, however, and in the new documentary Kusama: Infinity from filmmaker Heather Lenz, we learn that lesson repeatedly.

Kusama, for those who don’t know, has a career-spanning fascination with dots, soft sculpture and conceptual weirdness that dates back to early letters penned to Georgia O’Keeffe, the eschewing of familial expectations and a daring move to New York City in the late 1950s—after which everyone from Oldenburg

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That’s Venom for you—always licking faces and stuff. to Warhol shamelessly ripped her off. From the 1966 Venice Biennale (where she arrived, without invitation, to sell mirrored balls she labeled as “narcissism”) to arguably being the first artist to craft a mirrored room containing countless colored lights in a quest to represent the infinite, Kusama has been one step ahead of everyone practically always.

And yet she struggled—as a woman, as a Japanese person living in America, as an attempter of suicide and as an underappreciated force of nature. Lenz shows this brilliantly, mashing up film footage and decades of photography with modern-day interviews with gallerists, curators, Kusama’s friends and contemporaries and the woman herself. She calls Japan home again these days, living in a hospital but marching the two blocks to her studio almost every day.

The process is fascinating and the story itself enraging, but we also catch a glimpse of how Kusama influenced and continues to influence the world of art throughout the ages.

The tale is hardly pretty and the trials and tribulations were many, but genius always seems to come with a hefty price. And while we won’t pretend to understand Kusama’s thought processes and motivations entirely, we do know we appreciate them and her efforts; us and about 5 million others.

In other words, if you even think you like art, you must see this film. It’ll change how you think about everything. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 76 min.

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This makes The Nun feel exhilarating at times, even if it suffers from disjointed filler scenes that only seem to exist as setup to the run-ins with the demon, who appears as a sincerely frightening nun. It’s the eyes, y’know?

The eyes. Actors’ performances, meanwhile, are serviceable, though they usually have more to do with wide-eyed heavy breathing than actual acting; we get minimal information about demonology and something about the Knights Templar. Whatevs.

But we didn’t show up because we hoped for the contemporary horror equivalent of Citizen Kane—we showed up because the monster is scary, the jump scares are plenty and we need distractions from these waning warm days. Add another notch to your horror movie record for sure, and enjoy the spooks—just don’t think about anything too hard. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, R, 96 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In her poem “Shedding Skin,” Harryette Mullen compares her own transformation to the action a snake periodically carries out to renew itself.

Since you now have an excellent opportunity to undertake your own molting process, you may find her thoughts helpful. (I’ve rendered them in prose for easier reading.)

“Pulling out of the old scarred skin—old rough thing I don’t need now—I strip off, slip out of, leave behind. Shedding toughness, peeling layers down to vulnerable stuff. And I’m blinking off old eyelids for a new way of seeing. By the rock I rub against, I’m going to be tender again.”

Halloween costume suggestion: snake sloughing its skin.

omens, I endorse her persepctive as true and useful for you. You’ve zipped through your time of fertile chaos, conjuring up fresh possibilities. When January arrives, you’ll be ready to work on stability and security. But for now, your assignment is to blossom. Halloween costume suggestions: beautiful creature hatching from an egg; strong sprout cracking out of a seed.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “He believed in magic,” writes author Michael Chabon about a character in his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. “Not in the so-called magic of candles, pentagrams, and bat wings,” nor “dowsing rods, séances, weeping statues, TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Only the young and stupid werewolves, wonders, or miracles.” Then what kind?

Chabon says it’s the “impersonal magic of life,” like coinciare confident about sex and romance,” says 49-year-old dences and portents that reveal their meanings in retroauthor Elizabeth Gilbert, who has written extensively about those subjects. I agree with her. I’ve devoted myself spect. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because now to studying the mysteries of love for many years, yet still is a favorable time to call on the specific kind of magic that you regard as real and helpful. What kind of magic is that? feel like a rookie. Even if you are smarter about these matters than Gilbert and me, Taurus, I urge you to adopt Halloween costume suggestion: magician, witch, wizard. a humble and curious attitude during the next few weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If adventures will not The cosmos has prepared some interesting lessons for befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them you, and the best way to take advantage is to be eagerly abroad.” Sagittarian author Jane Austen wrote that in her receptive and open-minded. Halloween costume suggesnovel Northanger Abbey, and now I’m passing her mestion: sex researcher, love explorer, intimacy experimenter. sage on to you, slightly altered. My version is, “If adventures will not befall Sagittarian people of any age or genGEMINI (May 21-June 20): “My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the der in their own neighborhood, they must seek them abroad.” And where exactly is “abroad”? The dictionary machinery,” wrote Gemini author Dashiell Hammett.

But I recommend that you use his approach very rarely, says it might mean a foreign country, or it could simply mean outside or in another place. I’d like to extend the and only when other learning methods aren’t working.

Most of the time, your best strategy for getting the les- meaning further to include anywhere outside your known sons you need is to put lubricating oil into the machin- and familiar world. Halloween costume suggestion: traveler on a pilgrimage or explorer on a holy quest. ery, not a monkey-wrench. That’ll be especially true in the coming weeks. I suggest that you turn the machinCAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): PR executives at a beer ery off for a while as you add the oil and and do some company offered to pay me a lot of money if I would maintenance. Halloween costume suggestion: repair sneak a product placement ad into your horoscope. They person; computer techie; machine whisperer. asked me to pretend there was a viable astrological reaCANCER (June 21-July 22): The great Swedish filmmak- son to recommend that you imbibe their product in abundance. But the truth is, the actual planetary omens er Ingmar Bergman was a Cancerian like you and me. suggest the opposite. You should not in fact be lounging One of the factors contributing to his success was that he put his demons to good use, “by harnessing them to around in a haze of intoxication. You should instead be his chariot.” He also testified that he gained control over working hard to drum up support for your labor of love or your favorite cause. Very Important People will be more his demons by taking long walks after breakfast. available to you than usual, and you’ll be wise to seek “Demons don’t like fresh air,” he said. “They prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet.” I suspect that now would their input. Halloween costume suggestion: the Ultimate be an excellent time to adopt his advice. Halloween cos- Fundraiser; Networker of the Year; Chief Hobnobber. tume suggestion: walk your demon on a leash, or make AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “What kind of idea are it into a puppet, or harness it to your chariot. you?” asks author Salmon Rushdie. “Are you the kind LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Throughout the Halloween sea- that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself, son, I encourage you to fantasize extensively about what aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, your dream home would look like and feel like if you had bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool all the money necessary to create it. What colors would notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze?” I pose this question to you, Aquarius, you paint the walls? Would you have carpets or hardwood floors? What would be your perfect lighting, furni- because I think you could be an effective version of either idea in the coming weeks. If you’re the latter— ture, and décor? As you gazed out your windows, what views would you see? Would there be nature nearby or the cussed, damnfool notion—you may change your world in dramatic ways. Halloween costume suggesurban hotspots? Would you have an office or music tions: revolutionary; crusader; agitator; rabble-rouser. room or art studio? Have fun imagining the sanctuary that would bring out the best in you. Halloween costume PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “There is no beauty without suggestion: the ultimate homebody. some strangeness,” wrote Edgar Allen Poe. Fashion designer Rei Kawakubo ventured further, declaring, VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Extraordinary things are “Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.” She always hiding in places people never think to look,” writes novelist Jodi Picoult. That’s crucial for you to med- also added another nuance to her definition: “For something to be beautiful, it doesn’t have to be pretty.” I’ll offer itate on during the coming weeks. Why? Because your you one more seed for thought: wabi-sabi. It’s a Japanese superpower is going to be the ability to find extraorditerm that refers to a kind of beauty that’s imperfect, trannary things that are hiding in places where people have sitory, and incomplete. I bring these clues to your attenalmost never thought to look. You can do both yourself and those you care for a big favor by focusing your inten- tion, Pisces, because now is an excellent time to refine sity on this task. Halloween costume suggestions: sleuth, and clarify your own notion of beauty—and re-commit yourself to embodying it. Halloween costume suggestion: treasure hunter, private eye, Sherlock Holmes. the embodiment of your definition of beauty LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither.

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COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF Bruno Lopez Serna 15 Taylor Loop NAME OF Chaney Espina Case No.: D-101-CV-2018-02827 Santa Fe, NM 87508 505-270-9879 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF STEPHEN T. PACHECO NAME TAKE NOTICE that in CLERK OF THE DISTRICT accordance with the provisions COURT of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. By: Bernadette Hernandez 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Deputy Clerk Petitioner Chaney Espina will apply to the Honorable Gregory STATE OF NEW MEXICO S. Shaffer, District Judge of COUNTY OF SANTA FE the First Judicial District at the FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 COURT IN THE MATTER OF Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, A PETITION FOR CHANGE New Mexico, at 11:15 a.m. on the OF NAME OF Sofia Toribia 29th day of October, 2018 for an Montoya aka Sofia Montoya ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No.: D-101from Chaney Espina to Elijah CV-2018-02963 NOTICE OF Roan Santiago Espina.

CHANGE OF NAME TAKE STEPHEN T. PACHECO, NOTICE that in accordance with District Court Clerk the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 By: Jorge Montes through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, Deputy Court Clerk et seq. the Petitioner Sofia Toribia Submitted by: Chaney Espina Montoya aka Sofia Montoya Petitioner, Pro Se will apply to the Honorable RAYMOND Z. ORTIZ, District STATE OF NEW MEXICO Judge of the First Judicial District COUNTY OF SANTA FE at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa COURT IN THE MATTER OF Fe, New Mexico, at 10:00 a.m. on A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF the 16th day of November, 2018 NAME OF Manuel M. Chavez for an ORDER FOR CHANGE Case No.: D-101-CV-2018-02966 OF NAME from Sofia Toribia NOTICE OF CHANGE OF Montoya aka Sofia Montoya NAME TAKE NOTICE that in to Sophie Montoya Gallegos. accordance with the provisions STEPHEN T. PACHECO, of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. District Court Clerk 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the By: Bernadette Hernandez Petitioner Manuel M. Chavez will Deputy Court Clerk apply to the Honorable DAVID Submitted by: Sofia Toribia K. THOMSON, District Judge of Montoya aka Sofia Montoya the First Judicial District at the Petitioner, Pro Se Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 STATE OF NEW MEXICO Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 10:00 a.m. on COUNTY OF SANTA FE the 26th day of November, 2018 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF COURT IN THE MATTER OF NAME from Manuel M. Chavez A PETITION FOR CHANGE to Manuel Marquette Chaquez.

OF NAME OF Teresita Diana STEPHEN T. PACHECO, Candelario District Court Clerk Case No.: D-101-CV-2018-02606 By: Jill Nohl NOTICE OF CHANGE OF Deputy Court Clerk NAME TAKE NOTICE that Submitted by: Manuel M. Chavez in accordance with the proviPetitioner, Pro Se sions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq.

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT the Petitioner Teresita Diana COURT Candelario will apply to the STATE OF NEW MEXICO Honorable DAVID K. THOMSON, COUNTY OF SANTA FE District Judge of the First Judicial Bruno Lopez Serna District at the Santa Fe Judicial Petitioner/Plaintiff Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., vs. in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at Obed Saldivar 9:00 a.m. on the 26th day of Respondent/Defendant November, 2018 for an ORDER Case No.: D101-SA-2018-00005 FOR CHANGE OF NAME from NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF SIUT Teresita Diana Candelario to STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO Theresa Candelario.

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