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NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 LONG ARC OF THE LAW 9 Santa Fe Sheriff’s deputy who killed man in Tesuque has history of violence, service in lengthy career DEVELOPING ACCESS 11 Proposed changes to New Mexico’s rights-ofway rules aim to address chronic broadband expansion issues, but obstacles remain COVER STORY 12 AND YOU DON’T STOP 3HC breakdance crew members have kept the beat alive by training up new generations of breakers and founding the Hip-Hop University project, a combination dance, arts and education program for youth

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Santa Fe Sheriff’s deputy who killed man in Tesuque has history of violence, service in lengthy career

BY J E F F P RO CTO R j e f f p r o c t o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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he Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a man in Tesuque on July 7 has a complicated history that includes resigning from another department after his high-profile arrest on suspicion of domestic violence and saving a small child during a traffic stop.

SFR has learned that Deputy Patrick Ficke shot 45-year-old Edward Daniel Santana at least once, killing him, outside a residence at 1 Entrada Capulin.

New Mexico State Police, the agency investigating the shooting, says Ficke— whom the department refuses to identify—and another deputy went to the home to investigate what turned out to be a fatal stabbing.

They moved the woman to safety, then confronted Santana. State Police says he was holding a “fence post,” ignored commands to drop it and walked “aggressively” toward the deputies.

One deputy fired an electronic stun gun at Santana, according to State Police. Then Ficke shot Santana, who died at the scene.

It was the fourth cop shooting in Santa Fe over a two-week stretch. Three of them were fatal: two by the sheriff’s department and one by the Santa Fe Police Department.

Multiple sources familiar with the July 7 incident identified Ficke as the shooter.

State Police ignored SFR’s questions; the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office refused to discuss Ficke or the shooting.

“I’m not going to respond to your questions today because I am doing other stuff,” sheriff’s spokesman Juan Rios told SFR last week.

worked as a part-time mental health counselor.

He returned to law enforcement when the Bosque Farms Police Department— home, through the years, to numerous former APD officers—hired him in 2018.

By 2020, Ficke had been promoted to lieutenant. That fall, he was named one of five finalists for the vacant chief’s position in Bosque Farms, but he didn’t get the job.

Some time after that, Ficke put on the badge for Adan Mendoza’s sheriff’s department in Santa Fe. (The Sheriff’s Office won’t say when.)

It is not clear whether Mendoza’s department considered Ficke’s past when he was hired.

Since joining the department, Ficke has once again made headlines.

Last month, the department publicized dashcam video showing Ficke conducting a traffic stop on Interstate 25. The driver

THE 2013 INCIDENT

Ficke started at the Albuquerque Police Department in 2003, holding various positions before rising to the rank of sergeant and receiving a plum assignment—in one of APD’s most notorious, troubled sections, the Special Investigations Division (SID).

In charge of SID’s Narcotics Unit, Ficke was known in the department as an aggressive risk-taker.

On Feb. 10, 2013, Ficke and a handful of fellow cops, including other SID supervisors, were drinking in downtown Albuquerque. Ficke made his way home to Rio Rancho, though it is not clear how, and was “very intoxicated” when he arrived, his then-wife, who also was an APD detective, later told investigators. The couple began to argue when Ficke said he’d been called back on-duty.

His wife told him he couldn’t go to work drunk. Further, she believed he may have wanted to meet another woman, with whom he was having an extramarital affair.

The pair continued to argue, and Ficke struck his wife several times in the nose with his phone, according to a police report. Ficke punched her in the temple and “squeezed her neck so hard that she felt pain going down her left shoulder”—all in front of the couple’s young children.

She eventually left the home and called police.

After hours as a fugitive, Ficke was allowed to turn himself in to Rio Rancho police around noon the day after the alleged beating. That agency charged him with three felonies—two counts of child abuse and one count of false imprisonment— and battery on a household member, a misdemeanor.

After bonding out of jail, Ficke went to APD headquarters and resigned instead of facing an Internal Affairs investigation.

The criminal case languished for three years and was eventually dismissed when Ficke’s lawyer convinced a judge his speedy trial rights had been violated. His then-wife’s injuries persisted, too.

NEXT STOPS FOR FICKE

After his resignation, Ficke bounced around at various state agencies and even

Ficke’s past raises questions about the sheriff’s department’s screening process.

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Ficke could not be reached for comment.

In an interview with The Santa Fe New Mexican, Santana’s family raised questions about the circumstances of the shooting. One family member who lived at the home on Entrada Capulin said Santana had sliced his own throat and was bleeding profusely before Ficke pulled the trigger.

Ficke’s past raises questions about the sheriff’s department’s screening process.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department won’t say when it hired Patrick Ficke or whether he’s still on the job.

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stopped, then jumped out of the vehicle.

Ficke ran to the vehicle and saw a 1-yearold child choking on a Cheeto. He performed an infant-tailored version of the Heimlich maneuver and dislodged the chip.

HOLDING UP THE NARRATIVE?

The sheriff’s department has not said whether there is video showing Ficke’s July 7 fatal shooting of Santana.

According to State Police, deputies were sent to the Tesuque residence around 8 am that day to investigate a stabbing.

They found 67-year-old Delia Cervantes, Santana’s mother, lying on a bench and moved her to safety.

She later died at an area hospital.

Deputies found Santana, and Ficke shot him.

Santana’s family believes he may not have been capable of assaulting the deputies because he was bleeding from the neck, according to The New Mexican. The family questions the narrative pushed

by State Police about what led up to the shooting.

The agency’s narratives don’t always hold up.

The sheriff’s department last week released video showing deputies shoot and kill 32-year-old Nathan Roybal on Siler Road after a traffic stop on June 23.

Three weeks after the shooting, State Police said deputies Leonardo Guzman and Jacob Martinez and Corporal Chris Zook fired shots.

While he was an officer with the Santa Fe Police Department, Guzman shot and killed 29-year-old Andrew Lucero after a vehicle chase that ended in Eldorado. The case raised questions about potential violations of SFPD policy, though it is unclear whether Guzman was disciplined because the department refuses to release information about its internal punishment system. Guzman was cleared of criminal wrongdoing in the shooting.

The video released by the sheriff’s department of the Siler Road incident contradicts the initial version of events State Police put forward; the agency later partially corrected its characterization.

The video shows Roybal waving his arm outside the driver’s window, holding an object that appears to be a gun. He appears to fire one shot.

The deputies respond with a barrage of bullets, striking the truck multiple times.

The driver then exits, drops the object and runs away from the deputies.

As he flees, deputies fire multiple shots at Roybal, striking him at least once.

Roybal then falls to the ground.

According to State Police, he died at the scene.

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Developing Access Proposed changes to New Mexico’s rights-ofway rules aim to address chronic broadband expansion issues, but obstacles remain

BY WILLIAM MELHADO w i l l i a m @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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hen Ted Fites shopped around for an internet service provider that would meet his family’s bandwidth needs, he didn’t just choose the cheapest option.

“You cannot do that with internet in this state,” Fites tells SFR, pointing to numerous barriers telecommunication companies face when attempting to provide reliable internet services in New Mexico.

Fites, an information technology student at Central New Mexico Community College, eventually landed on NMSurf’s cellular network because it offered the most bandwidth for his northeast Albuquerque home.

It wasn’t a perfect solution for Fites.

“Fiber optic is always going to be more reliable than cellular,” he says, though Santa Fe-based NMSurf doesn’t offer a fiber connection to his service area—often considered the gold standard of broadband networks.

The local telecommunications company, like many other broadband providers, wants to expand its coverage to address speed and connectivity issues like the ones frustrating Fites—and to close the so-called digital divide that has shut many New Mexicans out of access to the modern information age.

Complicating those efforts for NMSurf—and for huge, national internet service providers such as CenturyLink— is a convoluted, patchwork set of New Mexico Department of Transportation rules governing rights-of-way that vary from region to region around the state.

Rights-of-way are authorizations to use public land for a specific purpose— anything from electric transmission to reservoirs to broadband internet connection sites.

The transportation department is working on rule changes meant to bring statewide uniformity, consistency and fairness in the governance structure for broadband rights-of-way use. But there’s a catch: The department wants to hike the rates, which has caused heartburn for service providers.

Rights-of-way permits are lucrative for broadband service providers because they offer companies the gift of convenience, for example, when they wish to install fiber cables in the ground, which often requires negotiating with small property owners or jumping through a tangled web of zoning requirements.

The conversation between the state and private companies over the proposed rule changes comes amidst a recent decision in a lawsuit NMSurf filed against NMDOT. In late June, a federal judge ruled in favor of NMSurf, ordering NMDOT to issue two permits the company applied for in November to install utility poles for wireless service—one on Interstate 25, the other on Highway 14—to expand broadband access to an underserved area.

In issuing a temporary injunction on June 28, US District Judge Kea Riggs agreed with NMSurf’s argument that it should be treated as a public utility, like PNM. Riggs cites public interest as a contributing factor in her ruling, writing, access “to wireless services is beneficial to the community at large, particularly in...areas with ‘little or no fixed broadband service now available.’”

“Their definition of utility, we fit within that,” NMSurf President Albert Catanach tells SFR. NMDOT disagrees.

The agency maintains that NMSurf should not receive free use of state rightsof-way because the company doesn’t qualify as a “public utility.”

NMDOT plans to award a permit for the pole off Highway 14, but the agency doesn’t plan to issue the I-25 permit as it currently stands because it poses risks to travelers’ safety, though the department is “trying to comply with the court’s order.” The agency argues the utility pole should be moved east or west of the original location onto private property, transportation spokeswoman Marisa Maez writes in an email to SFR. Allowing companies to use these rights-of-way for free would violate the anti-donation clause of the New Mexico Constitution, Maez writes. The department “will continue to litigate whether NMSurf can use the taxpayer [rights-ofway] for free, or pay their fair share for the use of public [rights-of-way] like their competitors have and do.”

In order for service providers to interconnect to the internet, they must use the right-of-ways to get to different data centers. Installing fiber cables to these data centers, based mostly in big cities, is essential to build out to underserved areas.

“That’s how you get on the internet,” says Catanach.

The larger debate over how the transportation agency will process and award permits to telecommunication companies working to expand broadband access started earlier this year.

In an initial, informal meeting in April, NMDOT welcomed comments on the proposed rulemaking from broadband

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providers. According to Catanach, service providers pushed back against the proposed changes, with one company referring to the proposals as a “broadband killer.”

Maez says stakeholders were primarily concerned about fees the transportation department proposes to charge for using the rights-of-way. She says the proposal is to charge “fair market value” and adds that negotiations with providers are ongoing.

Danielle Spears, a spokeswoman for the telecommunication company CenturyLink, writes to SFR in a statement: “Making it more expensive to gain access to public [rights-of-way] in New Mexico will make it even more difficult to reach customers in rural, sparsely populated areas with high speed internet.”

CenturyLink wants fewer obstacles when trying to expand access in its service area.

“State and local policymakers should focus on streamlining rules and creating conditions that encourage broadband investment while removing barriers that can slow the deployment of broadband infrastructure,” she writes.

Those private companies include broadband businesses and some renewable energy companies.

NMDOT says that smoothing out multiple zoning jurisdictions in pursuit of uniform rules would benefit broadband service providers.

The rights-of-way issue has proven to be a major obstacle to building out broadband infrastructure. During this year’s legislative session, lawmakers heard from telecommunication companies who commented on the time-consuming process needed to secure permits to lay fiber cables in the ground. Cable depth was another concern: Companies want to sink them 36 inches underground, while NMDOT favors 42 inches.

And with a shortage of licensed surveyors in rural areas of the state, NMDOT plans to review the rights-of-way application requirements to make the process less burdensome for companies working in underserved areas.

NMDOT scheduled a closed-door, informal meeting for broadband providers Monday, but has not set a date for a public meeting on the proposed rule changes.

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For Santa Fe’s 3HC breakdance crew, breaking is life

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welve-year-old breakdancer Ricky Rodriguez Jr. is literally upside down inside a space at the New Mexico School for the Arts campus, which formerly housed op.cit books. The hardwood seems custom-made for dance and, nearby, bass thumps from a speaker connected to an MP3 player.

“They say they have an ultrasound picture of me doing handstands,” he says.

Rodriguez’s father and the rest of the 3HC breakdance crew’s leadership watch on as Little Ricky, as they call him, busts a series of moves to the music—impressive for anyone, let alone a kid who hasn’t quite hit junior high yet.

A few weeks earlier on June 19, as locals packed the Plaza in droves for the Juneteenth Love & Happiness event—one of the first public affairs after the long, cold lockdowns—3HC arrived on the scene to perform windmills, flares, head spins and hand hops.

Mouths agape, the concertgoers simply watched, abandoning their own dance moves in sheer wonder. These days it’s rarer to see the crew take to the streets like that, what with the pandemic and all—but even as the world around them has shifted and evolved, one can always be sure Ricky Rodriguez Sr., Alejandra Avila and Tyrone Clemons will be breaking somewhere.

A staple in the dance scene since the ’90s, 3HC’s core has certainly changed over the years, but in its current incarnation, featuring Rodriguez Sr., Clemons and Avila as its guiding members, the crew has become a dedicated and nigh unstoppable force of dance.

For Juneteenth on the Plaza, the trio was on fire, and someplace between the music from DJs D-Monic, Sol, Raashan Ahmad and others, the crowd learned exactly why the art of breakdance has risen and endured parallel to the establishment and rise of hip-hop itself—

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Harambe, the Swahili word for “all together,” was basically a warehouse—another in a long line of DIY spaces in Santa Fe run by people who took a look around and realized they could access the kind of cultures they desired simply by doing the work. In the few short years Harambe operated on the Southside, dancing, concerts and raves from the legendary Cosmic Kidz collective gave wayward youths something to do.

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arguably the most important and innovative genre active today.

In Santa Fe, breakdancing has ebbed and flowed with the years and health orders. But for those who’ve been to the shows or workshops at Warehouse 21 or to the downtown concerts or even just strolled through the Plaza now and again, 3HC members have kept the beat alive by endlessly honing their own craft, training up new generations of breakers and, during the height of COVID-19, founding and operating the Hip-Hop University project, a combination dance, arts and education program for youths grappling with inactivity, an uncertain future, and a town that has not always embraced them as its most vulnerable and underserved denizens.

But let’s take it back to 1997 and the Hopewell/Mann area of Santa Fe’s Midtown, when a young Ricky Rodriguez first glimpsed the shortlived but impactful Harambe rave and dance venue on the Southside.

“They used to pick up kids from the neighborhood, and I was just one of the kids,” Rodriguez tells SFR. “It was a bad neighborhood, but with a lot of energy, and I think Harambe’s thing was to go to the worst area that had the kids nobody wanted. I was in sixth grade.”

the parties he started promoting. He translated those skills to a position at the Boys & Girls Club and, later, event promotion at now-defunct teen arts center Warehouse 21 and a position teaching dance at nonprofit Moving Arts Española.

“They all loved me because I could pull in the numbers” at events, he says. “They’d all trip out because I’d say, ‘It has to be free.’”

All the while, Rodriguez was sharpening his own breakdance skills, both with earlier members of the 3HC and on his own. Something clicked in his mind—a way to transform hyperactivity into hyper-productivity; he remembered what it was to be that forgotten kid from the so-called bad neighborhood and, as he trained, he built his own curriculum and phased into teaching. That,

Still, excellently awesome imagery of the roaming martial arts monk aside, Rodriguez says, “It’s addictive, but at the end of the day, it’s where you come from. So you come back and put together your own vibe, and that brings meaning to what you do.”

These days, Rodriguez is almost like the unofficial leader of 3HC, but only by virtue of his lengthier experience. The crew is ultimately a democracy, and everyone involved strengthens its core ethos.

Tyrone “Faro” Clemons, for example, brings his own acrobatic flair to the crew. A native of Española, Clemons connected with Rodriguez through Moving Arts when he was 15.

“My dad was from Compton and he used to play hip-hop all the time when I was a kid,” Clemons says.

“Tupac, Biggie, Geto Boys—I didn’t even know what it was, but I liked it.”

Underserved in his teens, Clemons says, he ended up at a boot camp for youths.

“I was the youngest person in the company,” he notes, “and I couldn’t get into the military like I wanted to.

So, I had this floating period where I didn’t have anything to do until I was inspired to dance. It was either petition the military to let me in at my CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Rodriguez was instantly hooked.

“What really had me intrigued was the rave scene,” he recalls. “If you can imagine being in sixth grade and being at a rave....I never knew people were partying that way.”

Rodriguez says he’s suffered from an overabundance of energy since he was young. In those days, however, there wasn’t really talk of steps to address it—instead, the prevailing wisdom was something or other about shutting kids up. Finding rave and dance culture finally gave Rodriguez an outlet, even if Haramabe itself only lasted another two or three years.

Still, the lessons stuck, particularly 3HC (itself an acronym for Harambe Hip-Hop Crew), and Rodriguez has held onto the dance tenets ever since.

“The impact it had in those years was permanent,” Rodriguez notes of

Tyrone “Faro” Clemons

he says, is when he “got good” and started traveling around the country to compete.

“I spent every penny, I was broke all the time—it’s like a decision to live like a monk,” he tells SFR. “It’s a spiritual journey, though, and you’re trying to win battles, trying to win money. I’ve won thousands [of dollars]; I’ve won over 50 battles in my lifetime.”

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If you’ve unsure whether you’ve seen Tyrone “Faro” Clemons dance, don’t be—you’d remember.

age—which I was ready to do—or dance.

Something called me toward dance.”

A couple months after completing the boot camp program, Clemons found himself sleeping on Rodriguez’s couch and, later, they’d work together at Moving Arts Española.

Moving Arts “gave me a scholarship to go to Santa Fe for this [dance program] Moving People,” he recalls.

“For me, coming from Española, that was like an invitation to Juilliard. In Española everybody told me I was going to end up dead or in jail. When I got out of boot camp, I wanted to beat that statistic.”

Clemons is married to 3HC member Alejandra Avila, who developed her own style during years spent studying modern dance and classical ballet. Her introduction to movement came from a youth dance drill team when she was 5.

“It was kind of like those dance competitions in high school,” she says.

“Then I got into high school and started taking dance more seriously.”

Avila earned a spot at the New Mexico School for the Arts, where guest breakdancing instructors from Moving Arts introduced her to breaking. As it was with Rodriguez, the connection was immediate. Still, Avila caught the eye of famed master ballet instructor Sheila Rozann, who teaches at the school during the year—an amazing thing, given Rozann’s broader contributions to dance education itself.

Avila says Rozann offered a fullride scholarship to study at her Ballet Chicago school in Illinois, though Avila didn’t wind up pursuing that opportunity.

“Which isn’t to say I did or have given up modern dance, just that I feel like I haven’t done everything I wanted to do with breaking,” Avila explains. “I never quite felt like I belonged [in ballet]. It was like I was trying to break out of a lot of stories about how the

little Mexican girl couldn’t do it. Once I found out what I could do with breaking, I leaned more toward that. Ballet and modern dance did save me, but with breaking, I had more of a place there—breaking changed my mentality to be more positive, and I felt like it was only right for me to give that back to the community, especially in New Mexico.”

Much of that giving back has come in the form of teaching, though with a style rooted in ballet and modern dance, Avila’s prowess is unlike that of most breakers. And when the pandemic hit and she saw the mass pivot to online learning, she knew she had to do something. Hip-Hop University was born.

“I wanted to keep the dance community alive,” she tells SFR. “I wanted to say, ‘You’re not isolated, we can get through this whole thing together.’”

Hip-Hop University began exceeding Avila’s expectations even before it officially launched. She had pictured a bit of dance instruction and maybe some art lessons, but a large number of local culture, dance and educator types showed up in a major way, resulting in not only dance lessons, but workshops in poetry, comic book creation, illustra-

Breaking changed my mentality to be more positive, and I felt like it was only right to give that back to the community.

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It’s all well and good to think you know what breakdancing actually looks like, but knowing the terminology is a great way to deepen one’s appreciation. This is not even close to a complete list, but it is a handy overview. Remember that safety comes first, and if you really want to pull off the sweetest breakdance moves, the 3HC breakdance crew would be more than happy to welcome you into the fold.

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Breakdance Glossary

The 3HC breakers span back years and across generations and styles.

The Windmill

This is probably the move you imagine when someone mentions breakdance. The dancer lies on the floor and spins their outstretched legs in a circle around themselves. You know— like a windmill. There are many ways to vary and build off of this basic technique.

The Flare

Arguably one of the more famous moves, the flare is that incredibly acrobatic maneuver wherein the dancer relies solely on their hands or elbows to swing their legs around themselves in a widespread circle.

The Hand Hop

Think of it like a handstand during which the dancer can literally use their hands to perform small hops. Word is, the move originated in the capoeira world of dance-fighting, and more experienced dancers can pull it off one-handed.

The Buddha Spin

You’ll need some pretty serious upper body strength to pull off this move wherein the dancer kneels and then, using their hands, lifts their body and alternates the weight-bearing hand while spinning in a circle.

The Boomerang

This one finds the dancer’s legs outstretched to either side, roughly in the shape of a boomerang, and the spins come from an alternating hand movement similar to the Buddha Spin.

The 1990

A spinning handstand that honestly looks so sick when done properly.

tion, style writing and bedroom-based music production, as well as a homework helpline run by local high school teachers who moonlight in the B-Boy/ B-Girl world.

“Every week we had a free workshop, and then, like with our Intro to Breaking Class, we’d do a followup, so some of them were doubled,” Avila says.

“It blew my mind that it grew so big, and it was beautiful to bring together all of these different scenes in New Mexico—we have our breaking scene in Santa Fe, but to connect with [hip-hop outfit] Outstanding Citizens Collective, graffiti artists in Albuquerque, dancers from Carlsbad...it ended up becoming a bridge to unite different parts of New Mexico.”

Avila says Hip-Hop University served students from California and Texas, as well as Uganda and Germany, and was such a resounding success that the ideas for the next round have been plentiful. The program is on hiatus for the summer, but Avila has been holding meetings to plot out classes and workshops for the upcoming iteration and says she hopes to garner financial, political and practical assistance in the meantime.

We can reportedly expect more solid announcements soon, but Avila says an October start date is likely.

“We don’t want to rush, and we also want to give any of the kids some time to adapt to going back to school,” she says.

“We know having to be online last year and then having to go back this year will take some time.”

Without over-promising, Avila can reveal Hip-Hop University will see returning local instructors such as Rodriguez and Clemons—the latter of whom will also lead workshops in comic book character and layout design—as well as DJ classes with DJs Mark Boogie and Suani Smooth, perspective drawing with Albert Rosales, style writing with Erhen Kee Natay, poetry with Nolan Eskeets and tutoring assistance from

local educator Alicia Gonzales, among others. Avila will teach the Intro to Breaking workshops and, she says, other classes may be added before October rolls around, depending on what kind of support the crew receives.

Of particularly sad note, however, is the recent death of Hip-Hop University instructor and longtime 3HC collaborator Colin White, who taught popping during the last run of classes.

“We know he’s dancing in another place,” Rodriguez notes. “Even though he’s gone, that connection goes beyond life and death.”

Avila says much of what 3HC does next will happen in memory of White.

His death, she says, pushes the crew harder.

“I think it’s a human thing to want to be part of something,” she says. “This next generation...they’re ready to express themselves and I’m excited to see what happens next. When I was a kid, I really hung out with the wrong people and did the wrong things. I thought that’s what I was supposed to do. If I hadn’t found dancing, I’d definitely be in trouble. In jail. Dead. Hip-hop saved me.”

Clemons agrees.

“It saves your life,” he adds. “Instead of me walking in somewhere, feeling scared, you get the feeling of what it is to be dedicated.”

Rodriguez Sr. knows a thing or two about dedication. Having taught hundreds of people at this point, he tells SFR that whenever he’s doing pretty much anything, he pictures himself doing windmills and handstands; pulling off flips and pouring his entire being into breaking.

“I think it’s sacrificial,” he concludes. “We’re going to be hurting tomorrow when we go to work, but it’s so extra.”

To find out more about Hip-Hop University, including how to donate, visit facebook.com/hiphopuniversitynm

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YOUR OWN PERSONAL SPIRITUAL NIGHTCLUB Listen to your body—but take the concept literally. Every week, movement outfit EmbodyDance Santa Fe hosts what it calls Ecstatic Dance, a thematic series executed through poems, music and other expressions wherein the only mandatory facet is no shoes. Explore your body’s movement and pop off like no one is watching—no right, no wrong; just movement. Afterwards, a voluntary talk-back session allows participants to reflect on the personal experience. It might sound a little foreign to the uninitiated, but perhaps your post-pandemic spiritual awakening is calling for just a moment like this. (RG) Ecstatic Dance: 6:30 pm Thursday, July 22. $12$15. Railyard Performance Center, 1611 Paseo de Peralta, embodydancesantafe.org

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material itself, splitting it and setting it into a dye. The bamboo is then woven into something more recognizable through a process of bending, shaping and knotting. Such a practice requires a lifetime of study and immense patience.

“These are sculptural works, and it’s all very dynamic,” Thoma explains.

“There’s a sense of energy and movement inspired by the shapes and feels of waves. The visual impact is pretty strong—it feels so much bigger than the dimensions.”

You’ll find Ippo’s works on display at Tai Modern through Saturday, July 24.

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TORII IPPO 10 am-5 pm through Sunday, July 24.

Free. TAI Modern, 1601 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 984-1387

Chances are you’ve heard of The Milagro Beanfield War in some capacity, be it film or book. In film form, director Robert Redford tells the New Mexico-centric story of the fictional town of Milagro (shot in Truchas) as corrupt politicians and corporations try to strip its citizens of their water in order to buy the land out from under them. Some might call it essential New Mexican cinema and an early film to showcase Latin American magical realism. We just think Ruben Blades is awesome. (RG) The Milagro Beanfield War: 8 pm Saturday, July 24. Free (but RSVP).

Railyard Park, Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe St., ampconcerts.org

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“We’d worked with [bamboo sculptor Torii Ippo] for so long, it surprised us we never had a show directly for him, so this is a retrospective,” Margo Thoma, director of TAI Modern, tells SFR. “Even though he passed away in 2011, this is his first solo show in the United States.”

In case you didn’t know, that’s kind of a big deal. Originally, Ippo began working with bamboo to support his family following his father’s death, but what began simply as traditional baskets and tea ceremony articles evolved into complex works of art. In Japan, bamboo is used for myriad utilitarian functions, from furniture to fishing nets, but with his particular brand of artistry, Ippo has become recognized as one of the most celebrated bamboo artists in the world.

And it is not an easy material to work with either—from harvesting the

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FOR THE OLD-MINDED MINDS Lovers of antiquity, I hope you’ve put down that worn copy of Suetonius and are giving SFR a read for a change. Ancient world studies are addicting, though, and as Santa Fe’s Summer of Shakespeare continues, Billy Shakespeare’s tragedy Antony and Cleopatra finds itself under the microscope. How accurate to history was Shakespeare’s interpretation? Historian, archaeologist and classical scholar Duane W. Roller explains the myths and misconceptions of the play. Come for the factoids and get yourself a dash of theater culture, too. (RG) Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra: 7 pm Sunday, July 25. Free (donations requested at the door).

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WED/21 ART 7 VISIONS OF THE WEST Abiquiú Inn 21120 Hwy. 84, Abiquiú (505) 685-4378 Show of Western landscape oil paintings, with artists including Nancy J. Davis, Paula Devereaux, Ann Jenemann and others.

All day, free BAMBOO SCULPTURE TAI Modern 1601 Paseo de Peralta (505) 984-1387 Featuring 13 pieces from Torii Ippo, master sculptor of bamboo. Apparently that’s an awesome thing you can be (see SFR picks, page 16).

10 am-5 pm, free DARK TO LIGHT Evoke Contemporary 550 S Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902 Paintings from Harriet Yale Russell that showcase intangible feelings through tangible means and realize complex visions and dreams in two dimensions.

All day, free GRAY SALT: LOST IN AH-SHI-SLE-PAH Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Exhibition of new work by Scott Kelley, featuring detailed watercolor and gouache paintings of animals, birds and other objects from nature, all inspired by his travels.

All day, free

DELADIER ALMEIDA: LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902 Brazilian artist Almeida captures the sense of traveling over the earth with geometric shapes in a mesmerizing array of colors.

10 am-6 pm, free POLLY BARTON: DARE, REVEL, DIVE Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711 Large ikat weavings with warp designs, pastel color fields on paper and handwoven linen with mixed media.

10 am-5 pm, free PENELOPE GOTTLIEB Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Vivid, colorful and thought-provoking paintings depicting extinct, invasive and endangered plants.

All day, free WHITNEY TRESSEL: PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION Downtown Subscription 376 Garcia St. (505) 983-3085 Work from a traveling photographer who has recently landed in Santa Fe and is sharing her wickedly awesome talents with us all.

Awesome coffee, too.

7 am-3 pm, free RAINSCAPES Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450 Hand-crafted from artist Judith Roderick. If you’ve never had your mind blown by quilts, the time has arrived.

Tues-Fri. 10 am-4 pm; Sat-Sun. 10 am-2 pm SONGS OF THE INEFFABLE Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888 Cecil Touchon dissects letters in the alphabet to remove their original meanings.

All day, free WHERE SHADOWS CEASE: RESONANCE OF AMERICA’S DREAM Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo de Peralta (505) 577-6708 This exhibit explores the connections between the personal and collective unconscious, reflecting on hopes, fears and aspirations.

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URBAN ECOLOGIES AT RAILYARD PARK Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road (505) 316-3596 Eco-inspired art installations from multiple artists, and an awesome way for kids to get outside and learn about ecology.

All day, free FIELD OF HEAVEN 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 New geometric and trippy (but awesome) looking drawings by Marc Baseman with Central American influences.

All day, free FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART Iconik Coffee Roasters (Lupe) 314 S Guadalupe St. (505) 428-0996 Alison Hixon is inspired by the human condition, the unfulfilled subconscious mind and what it means to be a woman in the world right now. Illustrations, paintings and stained glass mosaics are just some of the art to take in and to pair with your famous Iconik brews.

All day, free FIREBRANDS: JUDY CHICAGO, SWOON, AND HUNG LIU Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. Rarely seen monumental pieces, like Hung Liu’s masterworks Modern Time and Daughter of the Revolution.

Swoon’s The House Our Families Built and Chicago’s masterworks on display too— and, of course, much more of their body of art.

All day, free

BOOKS/LECTURES AUTHORS DARIEL SUAREZ AND JENNIFER DE LEON IN CONVERSATION Online collectedworksbookstore.com Authors Suarez and de Leon read and discuss their latest works: The Playwright's House and White Space, respectively.

6 pm, free ¡CUENTOS! STORYTELLING FOR ALL AGES El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261 An hour of stories every Wednesday and Saturday under the large cottonwood trees by the historic schoolhouse. Bring a blanket to sit on, or even a picnic. Free with Las Golondrinas admission.

11:30 am, free

DANCE LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO SERIES The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Performances by the epic La Emi and company.

8 pm, $20-$50

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ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 An evening of epicurean delights: select wines, delectable tapas and passionate flamenco.

6:15 pm, starts at $25

EVENTS BINGO AT MINESHAFT Mine Shaft Cantina 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743 Go help raise money for the Madrid Community Garden and win prizes to destroy the confidence of your tablemates. Also drinks.

4-8 pm, free HIGHGARDEN HANGOUT Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Happy hour and panel discussion with local community leaders, artists and industry professionals to discuss the future of art and entertainment at the Jean Cocteau.

4:30 pm, free JOB FAIR: SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Santa Fe High School Gym 2100 Yucca St. Educator job fair.

3-6 pm, free LET'S TAKE A LOOK Online bit.ly/3BcNPGL Got an antique-looking item around? Bring it to this virtual session, hosted by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture's curator of ethnology Tony Chavarria (Santa Clara).

Like Antiques Roadshow, but on Zoom.

Noon, free SAGUAROS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2501 Closest thing we’ll get to an MLB game here.

6 pm, $7.50

FOOD GIN AND AMARO TASTINGS Sassella 225 Johnson St. (505) 982-6734 Like a superhero team, Sassella's assembled an extensive list of gins and amaros just for you.

4-5 pm, $45

MUSIC CHAMBER MUSICAL FESTIVAL: TAKEMITSU, BALLET AND SCHUBERT St. Francis Auditorium at the Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Program includes Takemitsu's Rain Coming, Brett Dean's Imaginary Ballet (dances and interludes for piano string trio) and Schubert's Octet in F Major, D. 803.

5 pm, $40-$80

ELIZABETH AND A PIANO The Hollar 2849 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 471-2841 Elizabeth brings the blues (country blues, too), R&B, outlaw country, Americana and folk.

5 pm, free

OPERA APPRENTICE SINGER CONCERT Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi 131 Cathedral Place (505) 982-5619 Apprentice singers Lindsay Kate Brown (mezzo-soprano), Jonah Hoskins (tenor), Darren Drone (baritone) and Cory McGee (bass) accompanied by pianist Robert Tweten. And it's free.

6 pm, free THE LORD OF CRIES Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 An opera drive-in, how’s that sound? John Corigliano and Mark Adamo’s new work, a mixture of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Euripides' Bacchae, looks at the monster inside of each of us.

But in a fun way. Purchase tickets in advance (see Opera, page 25).

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BUTTERFLY WOMAN: HEAL YOUR FEMALE CREATIVE ENERGY Deep Roots Studio 4195 Via Alegria (505) 927-5407 Clairvoyant healer Lisa Pelletier teaches basic clairvoyant self-care tools that’ll help you find your female creative energy.

5:30 pm-7:30 pm, $40

THU/22 BOOKS/LECTURES THE INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AND THE HEMISPHERE’S FUTURE Online sfcir.org Jessica L. Bedoya is chief of staff and advisor in the office of the presidency at the Inter-American Development Bank. She’ll address the IDB’s role in the region, the role of women in the IDB and the hemisphere.

10 am, $10

DANCE EMBODYDANCE: ECSTATC DANCES Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-8309 Go and dance to a program of music that may inspire movement, awareness and connection (see SFR picks, page 16).

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With Santa Fe Opera lecturer and educator Oliver Prezant

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Whether he’s explicating an opera’s literary source material or delving into vocal techniques, Santa Fe Opera educator and lecturer Oliver Prezant provides opera-goers with deepened context. While he’s been delivering prelude talks at the opera for close to 20 years, this is the first year presenting them virtually, and Prezant admits he misses the “live interactions.” Regardless of how they are viewed, Prezant’s talks are geared at both first-time attendees and devoted aficionados. He previously spent 20 years as the music director and conductor of the Santa Fe Community Orchestra, and recently created the education exhibit for the Albuquerque Museum’s current exhibition, Another World. This interview has been edited for length and concision. For tickets and information about the Santa Fe Opera’s 2021 season, visit santafeopera.org.

(Julia Goldberg) Your talks incorporate so many different aspects of the opera. What goes into preparing them and how do you think about their audience?

Opera is a 500-year-old art form, and it really touches pretty much every aspect of human experience. There are all kinds of people who come to the opera... so I’m looking to bring them into the experience as much as possible. That could be through the music; it could be through the libretto; it could be through the production. They get a really friendly introduction to the opera that cuts deep, and it cuts deep because it’s not just the information, but it’s also the experience: saying a couple of words in Italian; or getting the opportunity to sing a rhythm; looking at a gesture in the air; even changing your facial expression to suit the mood of what might be happening.

All those things give the audience an experiential connection to the performance and at that point the fourth wall—what the audience is looking at— the fourth wall is broken at that point.

[The Santa Fe Opera] is one of the unique places to see opera in the world,

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and when the weather seems to be cooperating with the production, when the beautiful evening is enhancing your joy in watching this performance and there’s an incredible sunset, you can’t help get a two-for-one. The production values at the Santa Fe Opera…are at such a high level. What I’m trying to do is take people deeper into that experience so they can have as much fun as they can. Every experience you have is part of building a relationship with opera and you’re transforming your ability to listen and engage with how you see the stage.

You’re a musician as well—a violist— what brought you into wanting to teach?

For me, the boundaries between the arts are not hard boundaries. Everything goes together for me, so music, dance, visual arts—it all goes together. There was a time I was just out of music school and a little frustrated with how focused professional music was. I was walking by a classroom in a tiny little music school and someone was saying, ‘Yeah, it involves story and music and movement and rhythm and language,’ and I thought, ‘That’s for me. Sign me up.’ I’ve always been interested in helping people understand things. I’ve always been interested in explaining things and it just seems to be a part of who I am. So, I’ve been very grateful to have so many opportunities to do so. Talking about opera is the most fantastic integrated experience. Next to the movies, it’s one of the great mother art forms. This kind of work also allows me to share so much of my background with the audience, because I’ve been a musician in the orchestra pit, I’ve been a conductor and worked with singers; and I’ve been involved as an educator with visual arts and poetry through the ArtWorks program that I worked in for 20 years.

Can you talk about the first opera you ever heard and your favorite opera?

The first time I ever knew I loved opera was when I was just out of music school in New York and I got a gig playing La Bohème…and we had one rehearsal to put the opera together. We didn’t even get to rehearse the last act, that’s what music was like in New York at the time. So, we played a couple of performances the first weekend, and I listened to a recording of the opera and I looked at the libretto and it didn’t mean that much to me, but somehow by the next performance I loved that opera so much. That was the moment I really developed a love for opera and connected to it.

I spend so much time with so many operas that come from so many different places and backgrounds and cultures that I’m like a parent with many children.

Everyone always wants to know what my favorite is and, in some ways, my favorite opera is the one that I’m working on at the time because I have to be so deeply immersed.

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ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 If you live in Santa Fe and haven’t seen a flamenco show complete with wine, tapas and superstar dancers, you haven’t actually lived-lived here.

6:15 pm, starts at $25 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO SERIES The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 More chances to check out Santa Fe flamenco with La Emi. 8 pm, $20-$50

EVENTS SAGUAROS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2501 Summertime. Baseball time.

6 pm, $7.50

MUSIC GILLES VONSATTEL PIANO RECITAL St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 The program includes works from John Cage, Selections from Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano. Also from our boy Bach, Overture in the French Style in B Minor, BWV 831.

Noon, $35-$40 PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St. (505) 989-1166 Pat Malone gifts us solo jazz guitar serenades.

6-8 pm, free

WORKSHOP IMAGE AND IMAGINATION IN POETRY Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 In a 90-minute generative workshop, consider how images function in poems and how they work to ignite the imagination.

5:30 pm, $10

FRI/23 ART OTHER EARTHLINGS LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250 Vivid portraits of animals that blend the provocative and the surreal through characteristic wit and exquisite detail.

All day, free SOUTHWESTERN & DIARY OF THE USUAL SADNESS: ARTIST RECEPTION Smoke the Moon 101 West Marcy St., Ste. 203 Join artists Paige Turner-Uribe and Ibrahim Abusitta as they celebrate their new exhibition of amazing paintings.

All day, free RICARDO ESTRADA: SANTA MICTECACÍHUATL | KRISTEN EGAN: SPIRIT GUIDES Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574 Egan, a sculptor, and Estrada, a painter, share this joint opening reflecting Estrada’s Mexican-American heritage, totemic figures and ritual masks.

All day, free

DANCE LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO SERIES The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Flamenco is even better in the summertime.

8 pm, $20-$50 ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Dinner and a show. Or, if you want, just a show. Check it out.

6:15 pm, starts at $25 HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E Devargas St. (505) 988-4262 Lightning Boy Foundation partners with the Southwest Association for Indian Arts to present their traditional hoop dances.

6 pm and 8 pm, $15

EVENTS SAGUAROS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2501 Baseball isn’t boring. The Fuego will prove it to you.

6 pm, $7.50 SPANISH MARKET MIXER Alberto Zalma Art Shop 407 South Guadalupe St. (505) 670-5179 Featuring Carlo Ray Martinez and Alberto Zalma, alongside local artists who tell the stories of being mestizo in New Mexico in their art.

5-9 pm, free

FOOD INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY FOOD DISTRIBUTION Santa Fe Indigenous Center 1420 Cerrillos Road (505) 660-4210 The Santa Fe Indigenous center invites the Native community to stop by and pick up food boxes and fresh produce.

10 am-noon, free GRAND OPENING Hidden Mountain Brewing Co. 4056 Cerrillos Road (505) 438-1800 Prizes, live music, ribboncutting and smoked pig and gator. Raffle contests too and, of course, beer and food specials to go with it all.

3 pm, free

MUSIC ROARING ‘20S Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi 131 Cathedral Place (505) 982-5619 Part of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale summer season, presenting classical and popular composers of the 1920s.

Familiar names include Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Jerome Kern.

8 pm, $30-$100 TGIF VIRTUAL CONCERT Online fpcsantafe.org/tgiftube With Sin Nombre Brass— Program for the week includes resident bad boys like Vivaldi, Gershwin and Handel, here to make some trouble.

5:30 pm, free

THAO AND THE BATRAYS Railyard Plaza Market and Alcaldesa Streets (505) 982-3373 Indie singer-songwriter Thao performs, and Santa Fe's own surf punk Batrays open the show. Go if you want to feel those summer vibez.

7 pm, free

OPERA THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 Mozart's classic about a bride and the unwanted advances from her employer. Live opera is back, folks. But remember: tickets must be purchased in advance. Tickets are going fast, too.

8:30 pm, $113-$254

SAT/24 ART ART TENT SATURDAYS Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fría St. (928) 308-0319 Art for sale for all kinds of needs—fine art, jewelry and hand-crafted.

11 am-3 pm, free TWO-MAN SHOW Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555 Jewelry designs by silversmith Lawrence Baca and the beautifully transformed gourds of Robert Rivera.

Noon-4 pm, free WITHIN THIS WHITE HOUSE Axle Contemporary axleart.com A performance piece blending spoken word and drawing.

Check out Axle's website for the daily location.

3-7 pm, free RAICES DE MI ALMA (ROOTS OF MY SOUL) 7 Arts Gallery 125 Lincoln Ave. (505) 231-0949 Solo art show by John Paul Granillo with some epic animal paintings that’ll make you feel like your talents are nothing in comparison.

3-7 pm, free

ED SANDOVAL Canyon Road Contemporary 622 Canyon Road (505) 983-0433 Live Latin music and live art demo.

11 am-4 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES ¡CUENTOS! STORYTELLING FOR ALL AGES El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261 More chances for story time at Las Golandrinas. Bring along a picnic, blanket and some sunscreen. Free with museum admission.

11:30 am, free

DANCE LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO SERIES The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 More chances to see La Emi if you haven’t yet.

8 pm, $20-$50 TRADITIONAL HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Indigenous hoop dancing on the Plaza (so good).

3:30-5 pm, free (but bring money to tip) ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Have you considered, you know, going?

6:15 pm, starts at $25

SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Railyard West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Get your pottery, jewelry, paintings, photographs and even full-on furniture. Come support your local artists.

8 am-2 pm, free TRADITIONAL SPANISH MARKET Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Celebrate ¡una vuelta a la tradición!—a return to tradition—on the Plaza with the return of Traditional Spanish Market to Santa Fe. No RSVP needed—go and explore the world of regional artists.

All day, free BLOOD DRIVE La Tienda at Eldorado 7 Caliente Road bit.ly/3xTj3Rc *insert the Grey’s Anatomy theme song here* Sign up at the link above and then you can feel good about yourself.

Maybe there’ll be cookies.

10 am-2:30 pm, free

FILM THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR Railyard Park Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe Street (505) 982-3373 Essential New Mexico cinema for New Mexican peoples (no matter where you come from or where you were born).

See SFR picks, page 16.

8 pm, free

FOOD

EVENTS FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Why yes, it is time to replace those greens going bad at the bottom of your fridge.

7 am-1 pm, free SAGUAROS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2501 More baseball. More joy. The season is coming to an end, so if you’ve missed Fuego games, time is running out.

6 pm, $7.50

GRAND OPENING Hidden Mountain Brewing Co. 4056 Cerrillos Road (505) 438-1800 The opening celebration spills into Saturday, as it should.

Food and raffle prizes and all sorts of fun to be had.

2 pm, free

MUSIC AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Tunes at Fenix.

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CAVALLINI, VIVALDI AND STRAVINSKY St. Francis Auditorium at the Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Cavallini’s Adiago and Allegro from Grand Artistic Duet, No. 2 in B-flat Major for Two Clarinets.

Vivaldi’s Guitar Concerto in D Major, RV 93 and Flute Concerto in D Major, RV 428, Il gardellino, and Cello and Bassoon Concerto in E Minor, RV 409. Stravinsky’s Concerto in E-flat Major for Chamber Orchestra, Dumbarton Oaks. Contact the ticket office at 505-982-1890 or email tickets@sfcmf.org.

5 pm, $45-$58 JON GAGAN & PAT MALONE Santa Fe Spirits Downtown Tasting Room 308 Read St. (505) 780-5906 Upright bass and jazz guitar every Saturday night in July.

6-9 pm, free

OPERA EUGENE ONEGIN Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 Onegin rejects the love of Tatyana, only to realize it was a mistake. Pure drama! Tickets must be purchased in advance.

8:30 pm, $91-$309

THEATER THE CAPULETS AND MONTAGUES Shakespeare Reading Room 3209 Calle Marie (505) 466-3533 Live youth theater, where actors get a script the morning of and give a unique presentation in the evening.

7:30 pm, $10

SUN/25 BOOKS/LECTURES SHAKESPEARE, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Shakespeare Reading Room 3209 Calle Marie (505) 466-3533 Historian, archaeologist, and classical scholar, Duane W. Roller leads the lecture for all you theatre/antiquity nerds (see SFR picks, page 16).

7 pm, free (donations requested)

DANCE LA EMI SUMMER FLAMENCO SERIES The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Bring your visiting parents to prove how cultured you’ve become.

2 pm, $20-$50

TRADITIONAL HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Indigenous hoop dancing on the Plaza from the always impressive Lightning Boy Foundation.

3:30-5 pm, free (but bring money to tip) ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Amazing performances and also good first date material.

Just saying, just saying.

6:15 pm, starts at $25

EVENTS BELLYREENA BELLYDANCE Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503 For beginners and intermediates who want to brush up on their technique.

1-2 pm, $15 TRADITIONAL SPANISH MARKET Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Summer traditions return.

Remember to wear sunscreen and mask up, for there will be crowds. Parking will be nuts, so get creative or try walking.

All day, free

YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. All levels vinyasa flow class.

10 am, $10

MUSIC ROARING ‘20S Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi 131 Cathedral Place (505) 982-5619 Part of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale summer season, presenting classical and popular composers of the 1920s.

8 pm, $30-$100 TWO PERFORMERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Doug Montgomery (at 6) and Al Rogers (at 7:30) on the piano.

6-9:30 pm, free

MON/26 DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Open swing dancing! Class at 7, open dance at 8. Bring your CDC vax card for entry.

7 pm, $3-$8

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GERRY CARTHY AT UPPER CRUST PIZZA Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 982-0000 Traditional Irish tunes and pizza to go along with it.

5:30-8:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Great piano, great food and great wine.

6:30-9:30 pm, free STREET TOMBS, NIGHT SOIL AND LACERATOR Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Metal Mondays at Tumbleroot are back. 18+ for the show, please.

8 pm, $8

FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Tuesday markets are for cool kids. Fresh as fresh can be.

7 am-1 pm, free SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET DEL SUR Presbyterian Health Park 4801 Beckner Road (505) 983-7726 Now you can support local farmers without the terror that is trying to find parking in the Railyard.

3-6 pm, free

TUES/27 BOOKS/LECTURES ALEX RICHARDS Online collectedworksbookstore.com Author of When We Were Strangers chats with Collected Works staff.

6 pm, free

EVENTS YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. All levels vinyasa flow class.

Bring your own mat.

Noon, $10 RALLY 4 SALLY Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta Help Sally, who’s fighting MDS, find her blood match.

With just a cheek swab you can help save a life.

7 am-1 pm, free

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Deny Him Not His Place

Anthony Roth Costanzo as the Lord of Cries, with his trio of apprentice singer attendants.

‘The Lord of Cries’ takes a walk on the wild side

BY JULIA GOLDBERG @votergirl

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ightning flashed in the distance at moments during the Santa Fe Opera’s world premiere of The Lord of Cries on July 17, an appropriate reminder of nature’s force, not to mention Dionysus’ opening lines in Euripides’ Bacchae. Nonetheless, the drama on the horizon paled in comparison to the mesmerizing spectacle on stage.

In his conception of Bram Stoker’s character of Dracula as the second coming of Dionysus, librettist Mark Adamo mines a hitherto academic stance connecting the ancient Greek god of wine to the most penetrating supernatural creature born from the fertile end-of-century Gothic imagination, and presents a libretto grounded in poetic repetition.

In addition to supernatural elements, Euripides’ play and Stoker’s epistolary novel have also engendered a massive canon of contradictory criticism about their messages but, in this opera, they

are linked by a singular warning of the perils of ignoring our own internal demons and desires.

Adamo and composer John Corigliano, married collaborators, have been working on the opera for more than a decade, and spoke in the opera’s “Consider the Source” interview series about the particular challenges faced in merging these stories and exploring their eternality. Adamo’s task, as he describes it, involved making a play from 405 BC relatable to modern audiences and stripping away the kitsch from a ubiquitous 19th-century Gothic figure.

In the end, he says, he used Dracula as a type of “decoder” ring to translate Euripides’ timelessness. In so doing, he eliminated pop culture’s vampire lore (no mention is even made of vampires— although some audience members did show up to opening night attired as such—nor does one see any blood or coffins…although there are a few dead horses) and instead manifested an uncanny Lord of Cries creature (countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo), who embodies the feared Other in both visage and voice.

Adamo does preserve the novel’s structural use of found documents— diary entries, letters, newspaper cut-

tings—read throughout the opera by a correspondent for the Westminster Gazette (played by Kevin Burdette).

This occasionally makes for an overly expository and talky Act 1, although it does provide yet another texture in a production brimming with vivid sound and scenery. Adam Larsen’s projections also star in this show, as atmospheric and moody as any monsoon storm.

Corigliano says he used the letters of the Bacchae title—represented as a “Bacchae chord,” with B as B-flat and H as B-natural—to create the opera’s harmonic world—and that the libretto from Adamo, also a composer, included cues, such as different tones for Dionysus’ three guises and the wolf howls heard

by Lucy Harker (first-year apprentice singer soprano Kathryn Henry, who replaced Susanna Phillips, in a strong and compelling performance that was beautifully sung). Subsequently, conductor Johannes Debus leads a hard-working thrillingly, drum-heavy orchestra in this opera through a deeply divergent score—sometimes harmonious, other times cacophonous—capturing moods ranging from foreboding to frenzied.

One personal highlight included the music for the trio of Dionysus’ attendants: apprentice singers Leah Brzyski

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(soprano), Rachel Blaustein (soprano) and Megan Moore (mezzo-soprano). Moreover, the trio’s costumes and makeup, combined with their movements and facial gestures, coalesced to make them the focal point anytime they were on stage.

But the voice mentioned repeatedly in the libretto belongs to Costanzo (described repeatedly as high and thin by other characters, and one that heralds “ecstasy and ruin”), for whom the part was written. Costanzo’s singing is a treat and his performance of androgynous god/demon/armchair psychologist—aided by truly fabulous costumes from designer Chrisi KarvonidesDushenko—as much as anything sells the conceit upon which the opera is based. (Euripides’ notion of human psychology hews closer to modern ideas than that of the other Greek playwrights, and Adamo’s libretto grounds itself on Dionysus’ insistence in urging others to admit what they truly want or deny their true selves to their jeopardy.)

The character is described by others as “a prince of wolves” with “something lupine in his stance,” possessed of “eerie beauty.” It’s a tall order, but Costanzo delivers.

But there are no bad performances here. Tenor David Portillo, in his SFO debut, fully embodies poor, mad Jonathan Harker, straight-jacket and all. And Jarrett Ott (baritone) brings pathos to the character of Dr. John Seward, leader of the Carfax Asylum, who pays the ultimate price for repressing his feelings.

Throughout the opera, Seward is warned to not deny the Lord of Cries his place; after all, he already knows what we cannot face. Nonetheless, he denies him three times (it remains unclear if this is due to the rule of three or an unnecessary nod to Christianity) and, indeed suffers the consequences. Adamo set out to re-situate the muddled morality of Dracula and hold up the mirror, so to speak, to those who scapegoat others to justify their own fears. This makes for some complex and occasionally befuddling narrative choices (re-reading both the Bacchae and Dracula ahead of the opera may or may not be helpful), but a truly engrossing opera.

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THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart World Premiere

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Reading in the Arroyo: An Occasional Column About Books Writers in the garden

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ast week, an item about a fruit thief appeared on Nextdoor.com. A description of the suspect, whom the poster believed to have stolen 30 nearly ripe nectarines from his tree, was odd. It struck me as a sinister poem: “I have a sense a guy I just walked past on the road might be the eater. He was a rude guy with a big hook like stick who was munching on some fruit he had gotten further up the road. Yellow weather proof coat on. Walked right past me with some bad energy. Never seen him before.

Just sayin.”

Any fan might be immediately reminded, as I was, of William Carlos Williams’ “This Is Just to Say,” which concerns a plum thief closer to home. I mean, I’m sorry about Nextdoor guy’s missing nectarines (unless they were hanging over the street, which is fair game). But we should appreciate a colorful villain when one appears.

All of which is just to say that I have fruit—and the cosmic magnetism that exists between humans and plants in general—on the brain.

I’ve been dipping in and out of three books, each one alphabetically ordered by plant. They contain passages that vibrate with all the interconnectivity and coincidences (some fruitful, some sinister) of the universe. To read about nature in this hap-

hazard way, regimented by the first letter of a plant name, is to embrace an episodic sort of reading—good for these slow, hot days punctuated by thunder and lightning.

Kate Lebo’s The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes) is a new compendium of 26 essays on non-basic fruit: think durian, quince and elderberry. Lebo, who has published both poetry and a pie cookbook, sways seamlessly from culinary tips to memoir to measured spoonfuls of philosophy in every chapter. (Local author alert: for Italian plum jam, Lebo presents a recipe adapted from one of Willa Cather’s.)

A chapter on cherries is more concerned with the presence of almond flavor in cherry pits (amygdalin)— which is also cyanide. True maraschino liqueur is distilled from Marasca cherries and crushed pits, then blended with cane syrup and aged. Lebo takes us through the process, one she’s mostly derived from trial, error and the European Food Safety Authority, of living dangerously by creating her own cherry-pit extract to flavor pies with just a dram of bittersweet…well, poison. (Along the way, we’re treated to the anecdote of a neighbor who never picked her sour cherry trees and erected a high chain-link fence around them so no one else could, either.) Lebo ends with a meditation, watching her homemade

maraschinos ripen in jars: “Summer glow and fair warning, true cherry and almost almond, the promise and poison from deep in their seeds.”

Lebo’s book takes inspiration from a gardening classic, Eleanor Perényi’s 1981 Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden. It’s an alphabetical essay collection, too, written with a ripened elegance derived from the author’s 30 years of amateur gardening.

“I know something about a lot of things and not enough to call myself a specialist in any,” Perényi writes. “I grow herbs but am not an herbalist, roses but am not a rosarian.”

If only more people in the world thought of themselves this way.

Green Thoughts begins conventionally enough, with annuals and beans, but takes deep, diverting breaths of the surrounding elements. In the “Partly Cloudy” chapter, Perényi puzzles over the enterprise of predicting the weather, “a force we have lost touch with” and are barely equipped to handle physically, much less psychologically. She writes of the power of ancient food systems, too, and the difference between an Iowa farmer who uses six pounds of soil to grow a pound of corn and his Native American counterpart, who wouldn’t dream of it.

That Indigenous plant knowledge is at the heart of Iwígara: American

Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science.

Published last year and written by educator and ethnobotanist Enrique Salmón, who is Rarámuri (Tarahumara) from Mexico, this beautifully photographed and comprehensive encyclopedia is rooted in thousands of years of handed-down Native American plant wisdom, stories, uses and preparations.

Wrapped around each plant’s narrative is the Rarámuri belief, known as iwígara, that all life forms are connected to the point of sharing the same breath.

In the section on piñon, Salmón recounts an Apache creation story that shares this collective view. In advance of a flood, the Original Being (creator of land, animals, and people) made a tall piñon tree. A person called Girl-WithoutParents rolled a gigantic hollow ball from the tree’s sticky pitch. When the flood came, “Girl-Without-Parents and all the insects and other animals gathered in the piñon pitch ball and rode out the flood.”

Put together, the gleanings from these plant-based books can make for a pretty fantastic feast. But as Perényi writes in a chapter called “Magic”: “The lesson for the gardener is not to swallow everything he reads in books.”

The best plant wisdom may come from some weird characters, she advises.

“Better to consult the old lady down the road, the one whose porch is covered with moon vines.”

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Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain Review

BEST MOVIE EVER

Don’t be afraid

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You’re probably gonna cry.

Not right away, mind you, and not simply because an interesting person you probably never met died, but because the conditions and implications of Anthony Bourdain’s death are complicated—and because filmmaker Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor) takes a look at the former chef, writer and TV star’s life and eventual suicide while it still feels recent and raw for those who knew him—and those who felt they did.

We get a clearer idea of the man than we ever had before. Bourdain never shied away from personal stories during his years hosting shows like No Reservations and Parts Unknown, but there’s something more intimate about the impressions of exes, longtime creative partners and friends.

More than one calls Bourdain an asshole. More than one posits he must have been lonely. Those who can never sit still are often trying to outrun some sort of pain, the film hypothesizes. It finally caught up to Bourdain.

Still, we see it all, from the uncomfortable early days during which Bourdain learned to tap into

7 6 5 4 3 2 1 WORST MOVIE EVER

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We are begging you all to move on from your childhood nostalgia, because it’s exhausting to try and explain creative bankruptcy to the studio system’s more ardent defenders. It’s the cheapest form of capitalism; it is serving you dog food and calling it lobster.

Here that dog food is the new Space Jam movie, a copy-paste of the 1996 Michael Jordan-led film wherein a star basketball player (this time LeBron James) is sucked into an animated world alongside the Looney Tunes, whereupon he’s got to compete in a high-stakes basketball game. Don Cheadle is perplexingly in this movie. Even Bugs Bunny could have done better.

Of course, easy cash-grabs like this will always exist. Space Jam: A New Legacy isn’t trying to be good, nor was the original Space Jam. I can accept that. But when films act only as promotion for a studio’s content library—a reminder that HBO Max sure has some great programs in this case—I’m left in awe of the naked shamelessness.

Many readers will counter me: “Oh, come on. It’s just a kid’s movie!”

False. A New Legacy was not made for kids—it was made for late-20s/early-30s millennials who can’t find full-time work but, bafflingly, are still willing to shell out

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his non-food creativity to the all-encompassing way he’d fall in love. His message ultimately became about experiencing cultures and people, not solely foods, and the omnipresent subtext in all of Bourdain’s wheelings and dealings seemed to carry a simple message: You don’t have to be afraid.

Perhaps he just wanted to believe that so badly himself and couldn’t; perhaps it’s as his circle says in the film, and it was really more about shining a light on people who needed help.

Pity, then, that those interviewed practically blame Bourdain’s suicide on his final partner, the actress Asia Argento. No one says those words, per se, but it’s all there and feels reductive. Bourdain was no saint, he’d be the first to say, and maybe making the film so soon after his death means clarity takes a hit. Either way, anyone who ever found themselves in an emotionally volatile relationship

$15 to see a crappy “new” rendition of their childhood favorites. A New Legacy is stuffed with ’90s “nostalgia” for a reason. In no way are kids the target audience here, and to say otherwise is delusion. Every three minutes, you’ll be reminded the movie takes place in a “WarnerVerse” (not kidding), a sad attempt to remind you about everything the AT&T parent company has on its streaming service. It’s like Ready Player One for people who don’t bother with hobbies and we’re strangled with cameos from Harry Potter, The Iron Giant, Mad Max, the DC universe as well as perennial youth faves like Pennywise the Clown, Casablanca and even A Clockwork Orange—all for the kiddos!

Did you know Game of Thrones is streaming on HBO Max? This movie will constantly remind you. Whoa. Thanks, Space Jam! (Riley Gardner) HBO Max, PG, 115 min.

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In some ways, Black Widow is an exciting addition to the Avengers-verse. In others, it’s a tiring reminder that the tone and feel of the endless slew of Marvel films has become as formulaic as possible. In either case, we finally get a second woman-led Marvel movie (after 2019’s Captain Marvel), and Florence Pugh (Midsommar) is in it and easily becomes

probably knows the feeling that if they didn’t let go of that person’s hand, you’d both drown; given Bourdain’s staunch support of #MeToo, he probably would have had something to say about the pseudo-accusations against Argento, too. She does not appear in the film.

But a cavalcade of others do, from David Chang and David Choe to ex-wife Ottavia Busia, longtime chef friend Eric Ripert and others. Their love is palpable, as is their frustration. The film, thus, winds up very good and very challenging, if flawed.

You don’t have to be afraid. That has a nice ring.

the best part of something that also has the ever-brilliant Rachel Weisz and a pretty funny David Harbour. Oh, and Scarlett Johansson, too.

We pop into the story at some point after the second Avengers film during which time the supers of the world are on the run from Secretary Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt) and his Sokovia Accords, a legislative act that would require Avengers types to register with the government (it’s the lead-up to that Captain America: Civil War movie). Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff (Johansson) is not down, so she flees to Scandinavia to watch James Bond movies and sulk. But when the sister we never knew she had (Pugh) reappears to remind everyone the evil Dreykov (Ray Winstone as a vague amalgamation of Cold War-era Soviet maniac and boogeyman) is still raising up lady assassins—also called Black Widows—Natasha is forced to reunite with the only non-Avengers family she’s ever known (Pugh, Weisz and Harbour) to do back flips and punch throats and stuff.

If you’ve seen the Bourne movies, you’ve seen the bulk of this one, and Black Widow feels particularly silly given its place in the Marvel timeline—y’know, since regular viewers already know everything that happens to Natasha down the line, which ultimately dials back the thrills and chills and makes any dangerous situation feel moot. She will survive this movie. We know that. What are the stakes again?

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Jet-setting to locales like Morocco and Budapest, our heroines get into crazy car chases and close-combat brawls and pseudo-philosophical conversations about what’s right or wrong, what made them not wanna assassinate anymore and whether there’s, like, a soul or whatever. You half expect Matt Damon of Franke Potente to be driving the car before it’s back to Marvel madness.

Ironically, the action bits in Black Widow begin to feel tedious while the quieter and more human moments are what ultimately make the movie almost worth watching. Well, that and Pugh’s pitch-perfect Russian accent and combo of badass and funny. Oh, sure, it’s great to see an explosion or a motorcycle chase, but we’ve seen those all before. SO MANY TIMES. Dipping into ideas of humanity, family, responsibility and love are the real draw here, even if they’re glossed over repeatedly for that thing Marvel movies do wherein a single, mildly funny joke (for fans only!!!) is beaten into the ground.

Anyway, you already know if you’re going to see this or not, so the best I can ask is that you not be one of those “Actually...” misogynists who believes their scorn toward a woman-led comic book movie is anything other than hate. It’s summer. Theaters are open again. What the hell else are you doing on a Sunday afternoon?

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Valerie Andrews reminds us that as children, we all had the “magical capacity to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of mud and listen unselfconsciously to the soughing of the trees.” Oh, how I would love you to be able to recover even a fraction of those talents in the coming days. My reading of the current astrological potentials tells me that your chances of doing so are much better than usual. Your ability to connect with the eternal child and wise animal within you is at a peak.

what she didn’t even realize she needed to know, and make her appreciate the good times more intensely. I suggest you borrow from her approach right now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus singer Barbara Streisand has a shopping mall built below her large home. Its purpose isn’t to sell consumer goods to strangers but rather to stash her precious belongings and show them off when friends come over. Among the storefronts are an antique store, doll shop, costume shop, and candy store. The coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to start building a shopping mall beneath your home, too, Taurus. If that’s too expensive or complicated, here are alternatives: 1. Revitalize your appreciation for your treasured possessions. 2.

Acquire a new treasured possession or two that will inspire you to love your life even more than you already do. 3. Reacquaint yourself with the spiritual powers that your treasured possessions arouse in you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus wrote, “Great feelings bring with them their own universe”—which he said may either be degraded or splendid, selfish or generous. I love that he allowed for the possibility that great feelings could be positive and noble. So many renowned thinkers focus on negative and ignoble states of mind.

In accordance with current astrological potentials, Libra, your task is to cultivate feelings that are splendid and generous. These sentiments should exalt you, uplift you, and empower you to spread transformative benevolence to those whose lives you touch.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “How can you hold on to something that won’t hold still?” asked Scorpio poet Benjamin Fondane. In general, you Scorpios have more talent than every other sign of the zodiac at doing just that: corralling wiggly, slippery things and making them work for you. And I expect this skill will be especially in play for you during the coming weeks. Your grasp on the elusive assets won’t ever be perfect, but it will be sufficiently effective to accomplish small wonders.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian Calvin Trillin is a witty writer with a good imagination and a flair for inventive language. But back in school, he confesses, “Math was always my bad subject. I GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Dalai Lama says there couldn’t convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.” You Sagittarians are are core similarities between science and Buddhism. authorized by the cosmic powers-that-be to borrow Both keep searching for ever-more complete versions your style and attitude from Trillin in the coming of the truth. Both employ firsthand observation and experimentation to do that noble work. If they find new weeks. So you shouldn’t be fixated on mathematical precision and fastidious logic; your task is not to be information that contradicts previously held versions of conceptually impeccable and scrupulously sensible. the truth, both are willing to discard them. Now that Rather, you have a license to be extra lyrical and lush you Geminis are entering the Deep Questioning Phase and rhapsodic and humorous and irrepressible. of your astrological cycle, I’d love you to make generous CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 2011, an eBay seller use of the Buddhist/Scientific approach. More comproduced a 19th-century photo that he said proved plete versions of the truth will be available in abunCapricorn actor Nicholas Cage is a time-traveling dance in the coming weeks—if you’re alert for them. vampire. Although the character in the image did CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian artist indeed resemble the Oscar-winning star, he rejected A⁠rtemisia Gentileschi (1593–1656) achieved the the theory, and emphatically declared that he is not a impossible: She became a supremely skilled and time-traveling vampire. Maybe that all sounds absurd, renowned painter in an era when women had virtually but I must tell you that you may soon have to deal no opportunities to become artists. Many aspects of with people’s equally inaccurate and off-kilter theories her work distinguished her from other painters. For about you. My advice: Don’t take it personally. Simply example, she depicted women as having strong, agile correct others’ misimpressions and rely solely on hands and arms. In Artemisia’s world, the power of yourself for definitive ideas about who you are. women’s wrists, forearms, and fingers signifies their ability to put their mark upon the world, to accomplish AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ve assembled excerpts strenuous practical tasks with grace and flair. If I were of love poems for your inspiration. Why? Because you’re entering the Intensified Intimacy Phase of your going to paint images of you in the coming weeks, I astrological cycle. Consider using the following riffs as would also portray you as having strong, agile hands inspiration when you interact with loved ones. 1. “I proand arms. I suspect you’ll have potent agency to get fess the religion of love; it’s the belief, the faith I keep.” things done—to adeptly manipulate the material world 2. “Holding your hand, I can hear your bones singing to serve your ideals. (Thoughts about Artemisia’s into mine and feel the moon as it rolls through you.” 3. hands come from art historian Mary D. Garrard.)

“Raw light spills from your eyes, utterly naked, awakLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Once upon a time”: That’s your ening an intoxicating shimmer of adventure.” 4. “I ask you please to speak to me forever.” (Poem fragments phrase of power these days. What do I mean by that? are from Ibn ‘Arabi, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Herman I’m suggesting that you will strengthen your problemsolving abilities by engaging in playful pretending for the Hesse, Sara Eliza Johnson, Alejandra Pizarnik.) sheer fun of it. I’m predicting that you will boost your PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): An Australian witch named confidence by dreaming up amusing magical stories Michelle Clinton praises the joys of a “moon garden.” It in which you endure heroic tests and achieve epic features flowers and plants that reveal their full beauty feats. And I’m proposing that you will fine-tune your after dark. Among the flowers that bloom at night are ability to accomplish practical feats if you regard your evening primrose, angel’s trumpet, and Dutchman’s robust imagination as crucial to your success. pipe cactus. As for the flowers whose aromas are most potent after the sun sets: night-blooming jasmine, garVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo singer-songwriter den heliotrope, and honeysuckle. According to my readFiona Apple says she’s not religious. On the other ing of the astrological omens, you will have resemblanchand, she regularly kneels on the ground and es to a moon garden in the near future, Pisces. Be alert announces to whatever great power might be listenfor opportunities to glow and grow in the dark. (More: ing, “Thank you for my problems, and I send my love tinyurl.com/LunarGarden) everywhere.” She’s sincere. She regards her sadness and her challenges as being equally important to her Homework: Send me an oracle you’d like to receive for the first week of September. Newsletter@freewillastrology.com happiness and success. The difficulties teach her

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